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Who/What is Lukhanyo ? It is a team of professional mental health providers serving the community of Cape Town, South Africa, see http://www.lukhanyo.co.za/services.htm for further details. Its name Lukhanyo is a Xhosa word describing the place where the sun rises, and which also symbolises the place of hope and healing in African tradition. |
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DEMOCRATIC HEALTH PRACTICE This year Cape Town, South Africa, celebrates the 12th anniversary of the birth of its own mental health facility, Lukhanyo Clinic, which was a direct outflow of the process of democratization and hailed at its launch, as a triumph for democratic health practice in South Africa! |
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TRANSFORMATION accommodating professionally qualified healthcare workers of the formerly disadvantaged community integrating the expertise of all role-players in mental healthcare (psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, social workers, occupational therapists, and allied health workers) through effective teamwork/networking applying the unwritten principles of compassion and empathy in therapy, supported by creative motivational activities. |
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August 2004 the Wynberg clinic moved to a homely new premises at 54 Broad Road, Wynberg. Medical practitioners and hospitals are increasing referring their patients to Lukhanyo for specialised, professional assessments and treatment. Lukhanyo is currently operating from 3 premises: the head-quarters in Wynberg, Lukhanyo Health Centre at 42 Plein Street, Eerste River and at the new Promenade Mall (Mitchell's Plain). Contact: (021) 7620223/4 A household name in the field of forensic psychiatry, serving the needs of the abused/oppressed in domestic & istitutionalised violence & serious crime. Dr Ashraf Jedaar, our resident psychiatrist, appears regularly in the courts of law in South Africa as specialist forensic psychiatrist consultant. |
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PARTNERSHIP WITH THE STATE
The community in the Western Cape faces the virtually impossible task of
coping with the effects of substance
abuse, which Lukhanyo could not overlook. It offered its professional
Kensington Treatment Centre (2009) and Westrn Cape Youth Rehabilitation Centre (2010), Both institutions offer sleep-in rehabilitation facilities at no cost to the patients. |
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For more infrmation on any Lukhanyo project, kindly visit its website at: |
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to help the less affluent sectors of the community with their plight.
This liaison gave rise to the establishment of 2 joint ventures between
Lukhanyo and the Department of Social Development:
