Our Individual Treatment Program & Benefits

The St George’s programme follows a well-outlined daily routine to encourage residents to adopt good habits, take responsibility for their actions, and develop social skills and normal behavioural patterns. Residents are guided to live a purpose-filled life in a safe and caring environment where they receive unconditional support during their recovery process.

The program is comprised of the following elements:

•    Assigned duties
•    Morning devotionals and quiet time
•    Individual counselling
•    Spiritual Counselling
•    Assistance with the 12-Steps
•    Small focus groups
•    Educational lectures 
•    Life skills group discussions
•    Drug Education
•    Arts and Crafts Therapy
•    Nature Therapy
•    Sports Therapy – Pilates, Yoga, Zumba, Bootcamp, walking etc. 
•    Time to continue with schooling, in collaboration with the resident’s current school (provided the school permits and is willing to assist)

Each resident will undergo a background assessment with a Social Worker and will be introduced to the St. Georges programme in a comprehensive orientation session.

St George’s offers a re-integration programme for girls that have successfully completed the primary 3-month programme or the 9-month Healing Wings Sudwala programme. The purpose of re-integration, which would take place over the span of three weeks, is to allow residents and families the chance to readjust to the realities of normal life, while still in some sort of rehabilitation setting.

Within the three-week programme, residents will have increased access to the outside world in an effort for them to ease back into family life without feeling overwhelmed. For this reason, only girls whose families reside in Johannesburg will be considered.