Shamar Restore
Shamar Restore is focused on teenagers who have been suspended from school for disciplinary and/or behavioural reasons.
School disciplinary processes and sanctions can have a major effect on a Teen’s life and their future, this is why the preventative element is of such great importance. Often a suspension will be applied in response to a Teen’s serious misconduct, with the hope that this will function as a precautionary measure to correct behaviour. However, suspensions rarely address the underlying psychological turmoil that can cause problematic behaviour. Understandably, schools simply do not have the resources to walk students through a therapeutic approach in disciplinary outcomes, which often leads to learners returning to school without significant behavioural change.
Furthermore, the broken relationships within a Teen’s context remain unaddressed, and the psychological distress that they may be carrying does not undergo holistic healing.
The Shamar Care Team has recognised that this suspension period could be better harnessed to become a preventative and restorative one for the learner. Shamar Restore approaches these Teens with respect and kindness so that they may be empowered to take ownership and responsibility for their behavioural change.
Shamar Restore works together with schools and parents to bring-about restoration to individuals and to their relationships. This is done by focusing on and addressing the various factors that influence and impact the Teen.
Many times, the behavioural difficulties result from poor emotional regulation, trauma, loss, learning disabilities, anxiety, depression, addiction, uninvolved adults, relational discord, broken families, bullying, peer pressure, and a myriad of other factors; many of which can be prevented with correct and timely interventions. It is often the school environment in which these psychological challenges are expressed through contrary behaviours.
Usually, suspended learners are expected to carry out their suspensions at home before returning to school. If not used correctly, the time at home becomes unproductive and redundant in rehabilitating a Teen to adaptive functioning. During the suspension, the misconduct and behaviour should be addressed, challenged and changed so that the learner can re-enter the school system having received the necessary support to address all the underlying factors that precede unhelpful behaviors.
The reality is that parents, especially those who work, do not have the skills nor the time to spend with their teenagers to support them and to work on the underlying issues that cause the contrary behaviours.
The vision for the Shamar Restore programme is to witness the restoration of Teens through an integrative, comprehensive therapeutic and behavioural-modification approach. Shamar Restore is facilitated by highly qualified Educational Psychologists, Clinical Psychologists and Addiction Recovery experts. Once Teens have completed the full programme, it is our hope that they will experience greater measures of psychological insight, stability, and success within their school environments.
Sadly, during times of suspension, the student falls behind with their academic schoolwork, creating new and unwanted problems when they do return to school. To make sure that they maintain their academic progress, Shamar Restore will mitigate this by keeping enrolled students up to date with their schoolwork whilst they are suspended.
Program Duration:
Shamar Restore is available once a month and consists of three days from a Tuesday to a Thursday.
Times:
07h30 – 15h30 (Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday)