Our health team conducts community outreach work anywhere young adults congregate-taverns, backyards, churches etc.

Support groups deepen our Care and Support work. Ubuntu currently is running four support groups focused on populations made vulnerable by HIV/AIDS, poverty and/or sexual abuse. The quality social support engendered by support groups is key to building self-efficacy and decreasing HIV-related stigma. We implement various support group models. Our support group for OVC teenage mothers and child-headed households uses a peer model mixing girls with exceptional leadership skills with survivors of sexual abuse or rape. Another group of women from our community puts activism at its core, and focuses on empowering the broader community. Our support group for OVC teenage girls currently has 21 members, two of whom are now employed on a part-time basis providing catering support to our afterschool programme. All support groups receive facilitation support and weekly meals. They are all facilitated by experienced care workers or counsellors, many of whom are openly living with HIV/AIDS and act as community leaders. All of our support groups involve psychosocial support, sexual and reproductive health and lifeskills training. Each is also linked to our career and higher education programme that builds skills and facilitates access to ongoing education for these particularly vulnerable groups.

The following groups are run on a weekly basis:

1. Adolescent survivors of sexual abuse: This support group provides a safe space for adolescents who are survivors of sexual abuse. The group meets once a week, with a primary focus on psychosocial support.
2. Chumani Support Group: This support group meets weekly near the New Brighton Clinic. The group is comprised of 20 female members living openly with HIV/AIDS. The group is activist in nature and focuses on community HIV prevention outreach, psychosocial support and income-generation. It is facilitated by two Ubuntu care workers.
3. Aggressive Teenage Boys: Ten adolescent boys attend this group on a weekly basis. Each was identified by teachers or lifeskills educators due to aggressive behaviour in the classroom. In each case, a care worker assigned to do a home visit found the child in a vulnerable situation and referred into this group. To date, progress has been noted by teachers for each boy.