Adventist Centre for Care and Support (ACCS) Overview
The Adventist Centre for Care and Support (ACCS) is a faith-based NGO focusing on HIV/AIDS prevention, support for Orphans and Vulnerable Children, HIV Testing Services, Youth Development, and more. Established in 2005, ACCS operates with a mission to provide care and relief to disadvantaged individuals, guided by Christian values. The organization's structure includes a governing board and various staff members, supported by volunteers. ACCS runs multiple programs with different donors, benefiting a range of vulnerable groups in the community.
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7TH AAIM TRI-DIVISION PRESENTATION Ongata Rongai, Nairobi JULY 1-6, 2018 PRESENTER: Beatrice Amenya Oyugi ACCS Programmes Coordinator
ORGANISATIONAL BACKGROUND The Adventist Centre for Care and Support (ACCS) is a faith based non-governmental organization working in the field of supporting HIV/AIDS prevention activities and other related programs like Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC), HIV Testing Services (HTS), Behavior Change, Youth Development Programs, and Ex-Prisoners Counseling and Rehabilitation Services. The Centre was officially opened on 31st August 2005 by Nairobi Central SDA Church as a social arm of the church and received certification as a Voluntary Counseling and Testing (VCT) Centre from National AIDS/STI Control Programme (NASCOP) in October 2005. The ACCS was further registered by the Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO) Board of Kenya on 21st June 2006 as a national NGO and has been operational since.
ACCS MISSION AND VISION The Vision of ACCS is to be a Centre guided by Christian values and professionalism as it takes lead in supporting and facilitating the provision of care and support to the needy members of the society. The Mission of ACCS is to work with the disadvantaged and vulnerable members of the society through relief development to enhance their capacity to improve their quality of life. Motto Service with compassion and sustainable
ORGANISATIONAL STRUCTURE An 11-member governing board, which offers technical support, comprises of the following at the SDAC Nairobi Central: 3 serving church elders The Head of the Women Ministries (WM) The Head of the Adventist Men Organization (AMO) 2 female church congregants 2 youth representatives (a male and a female) 2 ex-officio members: current senior pastor & the Head Elder ACCS is headed by a CEO/Programmes Coordinator. It has a Finance Officer, 2 Project Officers, 2 M&E Officers, 2 Data Clerks, a Counselor / Case Manager and an Administrative Assistant. ACCS also has a community workforce comprising of 50 community health volunteers, 24 house hold facilitators, 12 mentors, 2 community mentor mothers
OUR CURRENT PROGRAMMES PROGRAM DONOR BENEFICIARIES Good Samaritan Program (GSP) (supporting the poor and needy with donations from church members (clothes and dry food items) Nilinde Project SDA Church Nairobi Central Surrounding community and needy church members Plan International (USAID) 2,324 Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC) Chap Uzima Project Christian Health Associations of Kenya (CHAK) - (CDC) 1,605 OVC s JUA Project Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (EGPAF) - (John Snow Incorporated (JSI) ) 96 ,10-19 year old adolescent pregnant/mothers of <=1year old child Promotion of PMTCT Ex-prisoners counseling and rehabilitation Project A Better World Canada Prisoner converts to SDA faith upon release from prisons, through the work of AMO HIV Testing Services NASCOP Walk-in stand alone centre
PROGRAMME IMPLEMENTATION Achievements PHOTO: Good Samaritan Project beneficiaries waiting to be served
PROGRAMME IMPLEMENTATION Achievements 6,000+ Number of clients who have been served cumulatively by ACCS since inception in 2005. Average number of clients ACCS receives each week 50
OVC PROGRAMME Health PHOTO: Children living with HIV during a health talk with a community staff health worker
OVC PROGRAMME Health 186 Number of CLHIV s supported by ACCS through nutrition, health talks, adherence counseling. The Centre follows up on viral load monitoring and suppression 128 Number of care givers who are living positively and supported by ACCS. They form 7 support groups that meet once a month for peer support, and group adherence counseling
OVC PROGRAMME Education PHOTO: Primary school candidates receiving revision materials
OVC PROGRAMME Education 165 109 970 420 550 990 88 65 Secondary school OVC supported with school fees Primary and pre-unit supported with school levies. Candidates received career mentorship KCSE candidates have gone through mentorship forums before exams KCPE candidates gone through mentorship forums before exams Age-appropriate girls supplied with sanitary towels OVC have gone through vocational training OVC s vocational graduates supported with start up kits for IGA s
Household Economic Strengthening (HES) PHOTO: Care givers living positively work as a group on their beadwork, having been trained and supported with start-up materials by ACCS for independent income-generating activities.
Household Economic Strengthening (HES) 125+ Number of highly vulnerable households with IGA s which ACCS has supported, so that the infected/affected OVC can live in a progressively caring environment
PROGRAMME IMPLEMENTATION Achievements Psychosocial Support ACCS ensures all the 3,929 OVC s live with an adult over 18 years and that no household is headed by a child. We also ensure that orphans have counseling support should and when the need arises. The orphans are home visited by a community health worker at least once in a quarter. The HIV positive are visited monthly and priority needs recorded and worked on. OVC selection criteria: that the child is infected or affected by HIV Below 18 years of age. one parent/or both parents died from HIV related complications.
PROGRAMME IMPLEMENTATION Achievements Social/legal /GBV Protection ACCS supports the following: provision of birth certificates for orphans facilitates provision of death certificates for the parents participates in succession planning for the children, facilitates NHIF especially to the HIV+ continuously creates awareness in the care giver and child on types and forms of GBV Ensure that preventions / reporting mechanisms are available to them in vases of GBV
PROGRAMME IMPLEMENTATION Achievements HIV Testing Services (HTS) ACCS is a stand-alone testing Centre, having been certified by NASCOP in 2005. An average of 11 clients are tested in a week. When an outreach activity is carried out, this number drastically increases, often to over 200 in a single day. The Centre is preferred by outside clientele, majority of whom claim to believe in our results, since it is a faith-based Organization
Referral and Linkages ACCS works in collaboration with different departments, to name a few: SDAC Nairobi Central - primary sponsor for all projects DREAMS Project Liverpool - referring to and from Department of Children Dagoretti North Sub-county Lea-Toto for CLHIV clients Riruta Health Centre for ailments and opportunistic infections Nairobi Women's / Mbagathi / Kenyatta National hospitals for GBV and rape/defilement cases Social Development Office for IGA registration Ministry of Health sub-county level for verification of CHV s and health related issues GOK Administration, especially chiefs and sub-chiefs, for the verification of birth certificate documents as well as for protection Department of Birth / Death civil registration
Asanteni! Contact Us Adventist Centre for Care and Support - ACCS Jakaya Kikwete Rd, Nairobi, Kenya (Opposite Nairobi County Police HQ) E-mail: Website: Office: accsnews@gmail.com http://www.accs.or.ke/ (+254)-20-200018
