The Board of Directors of the Special Mothers project, a not-for-profit advocacy organisation have agreed to transition the project into an advocacy and consultancy organisation that counsels and mentors’ special needs parents.
The project will now be called Inclusive Family Alliance to represent the broad scope of activities they will undertake on children with disabilities and their families as well as consult on how organisations and corporate Ghana can effectively include children with disabilities and their families in policies
Inclusive Family Alliance (IFA) will
operate as a social enterprises prioritising issues affecting children with
cerebral palsy as well as families raising children with disabilities in
general.
“IFA will also engage in disability
advocacy, consultancy, mentorship and counselling of parents of children with
disabilities,” Mr Alexander Tetteh, board member of the organisation said at a
meeting.
Mrs Hannah Awadzi, Executive Director of
Inclusive Family Alliance, said the organisation currently focuses on referring
parents of children with special needs to the limited but available support
systems and services.
The organisation also has a parents’
support platform where parents of children with cerebral palsy and other
disabilities engage in peer counselling and peer mentoring as well as share
ideas and experiences
The Inclusive Family Alliance will soon
launch a mentoring and coaching programme dubbed “Life Beyond Diagnosis” that
supports parents of children with disabilities to development their own self
care and self development plan.
