Table 2.

Activities funded per service area (Free State Provincial Government, 2012)

Service area	Activities that are funded
Care services	Home visits to the frail; caring for the frail; caring for child-headed households; care programmes for children rendered vulnerable as a result of HIV & AIDS; recruitment and training (primary level); monitoring of the progress of the family and/or the frail; coordination of teamwork
Support services	Support groups, e.g. for life skills and information education; home visits; linking families or persons with other services
Psychosocial needs	Strengthening and supporting family and community capacity to provide vulnerable children with psychosocial support; strengthening referral mechanisms for children and youth to specialized services; counselling of all forms; on-going support; other care and support programmes
Prevention and behaviour modification programmes	Workshops; door-to-door campaigns; exhibitions; public meetings; materials development and dissemination
Training	Training workshops; development and distribution of training materials; establishment of networks for post-training implementation of the acquired information
Social assistance	Promoting access to social grants; facilitating access to food packages; facilitating access to nutritional supplements
Community mobilisation	Establishing child-care committees to identify orphans and children in affected families; ensuring basic services to the children identified; training of committees; setting-up inter-sectoral networks for referrals; monitoring and coordination of services of subsidised service providers
Provision of care facilities	Providing temporary shelter for affected persons; care centres for the infected; day-care facilities; integrated facilities, e.g. retirement homes, day-care centres, children's homes