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Community Technologies, for example, pioneered several to distressed communities in the Nelson Mandela Bay
ICT and mobile applications, including rolling out a Metro and OR Tambo District. The Department offered
COVID-19 screening tool to 5 100 schools in the Eastern a range of workshops to community volunteers and Non-
Cape and provided the ICT support for Nelson Mandela Governmental Organisations (NGOs) aimed at providing
Bay's three 500-bed Rev. Dr EM Chabula-Nxiweni Field psychological first aid. Furthermore, an intern Psychologist
Hospital, the only paperless public-sector hospital in volunteered Psycho-social support services to 63 frontline
Nelson Mandela Bay. health care professionals at Livingstone Hospital. At the
same time, UCLIN on South Campus presented a series of
Professor Zoleka Soji, the School Director, provided Care for the Carer Workshops with various NGOs focusing
an advisory function to the Eastern Cape Provincial on Dealing with COVID-19, Coping with isolation, Coping
COVID-19 Response Steering Committee. Professor Soji with the death of a loved one, Stress management, Coping
was requested to assemble a team represented by all with job loss and Selfcare.
Eastern Cape Universities. This team was instrumental
in strengthening existing interventions in the Province 9. Reimagining Basic and Post-School
and provided professional and technical expertise in Education and Training
implementing an integrated Psycho-Social Support
Strategy for the Province. This team was also tasked The CYUEE has contributed to the DHET TVET Colleges
with diagnosing the provision of Psycho-Social Support Research Programme. The report generated highlighted
services, guiding the Province on deficiencies in existing how inefficiencies in NSFAS exacerbate poverty amongst
services, and developing a responsive Plan of Action to be students and negatively impact the academic performance
used by the Steering Committee. of TVET College students. The CYUEE’s ongoing
scholarship has been published in a paper titled Planning
The Social Development Professions Department worked for Freedom: From Human Capital to Human Capabilities.
with the school community offering trauma support The Chair was awarded a National Institute for Humanities
sessions to principals. BPsych final-year students and and Social Sciences grant for a project focusing on skills,
Psychology Master's students provided online counselling livelihoods and the informal sector.

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