Contact us: 082 344 4231
Email: admin@kidswhocancommunity.co.za
MEET OUR TEAM
Ensuring quality and professional facilitation
All our facilitators have completed an intensive Training Workshop with
Michelle Schoon, the founder of KIDS WHO CAN COMMUNITY, who has had eight years experience teaching the program. We are mothers, teachers, counsellors, psychologists and life coaches who are passionate about empowering children and teenagers.
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MICHELLE SCHOON
Founder, Kids Who Can & Girls Who Can Facilitator and Programme Trainer
Michelle is happily married and has 3 wonderful sons aged 15, 20 and 22. She loves children and is passionate about assisting them in dealing with life’s challenges. On leaving school, she wasn’t sure if she should study art or teaching but opted for Graphic Design, ending up working in both the publishing and advertising industry for 22 years. Although she enjoyed this creative field her yearning to teach children became stronger after having her own children and in 2010 when her oldest son, then 10, had a few emotional challenges, her life purpose became apparent...
She founded KIDS WHO CAN in 2011 and has been facilitating KIDS WHO CAN, GIRLS WHO CAN and BOYS WHO CAN courses ever since. Michelle also facilitates all the facilitator training workshops for Kids Who Can Community.
Through the group work, it became apparent that some children required more individual help in the form of therapy. She completed a counselling course at Hope House Counselling Centre as well as a Play Therapy course with Rhinda Blom. She has been a volunteer play therapist at Hope House for 5 years and runs her own practice from home.
To further extend her work with children, she completed Level 1, 2 and 3 training for the Protective Behaviours programme - an internationally acclaimed preventative abuse programme - and incorporates this into all the programmes.
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ANDREA POWELL
Girls Who Can & Kids Who Can Facilitator
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After completing her BSocSci at UCT in 1989 and then traveling and working around the world, Andrea spent more than 20 years in journalism, during which time she studied counselling psychology and communication at the South African College of Applied Psychology (SACAP).
Andrea is a qualified counsellor and play therapist who has a private practice in Green Point, Cape Town, and is also the school counsellor at Prestwich Primary in the same neighbourhood.
Andrea is both a Girls Who Can and Kids Who Can facilitator and feels she has a gift to share with the world, helping young people flourish, given the modern day stresses they often struggle to cope with.
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GENEVIEVE COLES
Kids Who Can, Girls Who Can and Boys Who Can Facilitator
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Genevieve is happily married and has 1 beautiful daughter who is 20 years old. After leaving school she completed her degree at Wits Technikon in Fashion Design. She pursued a career in fashion but after the birth of her daughter she felt she had a calling to study teaching. She completed her ECD training at Play with a purpose and then continued her studies and completed her degree in Education. She has completed short courses on child enrichment in understanding on how children need guidance and support.
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She has always been passionate about helping children and understanding the hardships they go through even more so when her daughter went through a challenging time.
She has a special interest in the social and emotional development of children. She is passionate about supporting children and facilitating in the way they identify and manage their feelings. She recently completed her Kids Who Can training and will be facilitating all of our programmes: Kids Who Can, Girls Who Can and Boys Who Can.