Jelly Beanz Inc is a registered non-profit organisation that endeavours to provide emotional support to children and families who have experienced abuse and trauma.
Edith Kriel (Social worker, Western Cape) and Marita Rademeyer (Clinical psychologist) have been working in the field of abuse and trauma for many years. With the help of friends and colleagues, they started Jelly Beanz Inc. in 2009, as a response to the increasing incidence of trauma and abuse in the communities within which they work, as well as the chronic shortage of services to assist children and families.
Edith Kriel
Edith is a social worker who has specialised in working with traumatised children for the past 16 years. She developed the Teddy Bear Clinic into a multi-level service, initiated the Child Witness Project in the Western Cape and developed the Healing Project on behalf of RAPCAN. The Healing Project provides services to children that have been sexually abused and their families. She is the co-founder of the Child Trauma Centre in Cape Town and offers multi-disciplinary workshops on a range of topics including helping the traumatised child and working with helping professionals to prevent and manage secondary trauma.
Marita Rademeyer
Marita is a clinical psychologist and co-founder of the Child Trauma Clinic in Pretoria. She has helped children and their caregivers deal with the effects of child abuse and neglect, rape, violence and crime, HIV/AIDS, cancer, youth awaiting trial and clients with physical and mental disabilities. Her special interest is play therapy with traumatised children. |
