Khulisa are committed to helping young people to thrive, and to support the adults around them.
Our Values
We believe that a core part of our mission involves promoting the values we hold close.
We deliver intensive, therapeutic group programmes for young people to explore the root causes of their emotional distress. We also train professionals, parents and carers in how to create nurturing, trauma-informed environments for young people. We place wellbeing at the heart of supporting young people, and provide intensive therapeutic support to help them build self-awareness and emotional resilience.
Our Values are to
- GUIDE:
- by restoring empathy, self-belief and self-worth
- NURTURE:
- by believing all people can grow
- RESTORE:
- by enabling people to have an equal voice and building trust and aspiration
- EMPOWER:
- by enabling confidence, self-belief and ownership
Diversity, Equality, Inclusion, and Belonging
Khulisa aims to replicate the feelings of safety and inclusion we create for our programmes within our team, culture and internal ways of working.
Our strong focus on DEIB is key to achieving our success. With a brave, bold and challenging approach we value transparency, inclusion and sustainable changes to create a sense of belonging.
To build a culture within Khulisa, where everybody feels safe to be their true self and ultimately can feel that they belong; just as young people do on our programmes. In practice, these mandates have started to come to life through whole team conversations about marginalisation and harm (for example through racism, transphobia and homophobia etc). We’re also taking action such as policy change, a review of our approach to pay & benefits, shifting our internal and external language to minimise the harm done by labelling terms and funding the therapeutic qualifications of Black and Brown staff who are so under-represented in the therapeutic field. We are laser focussed on building on this momentum and we have budgeted for DEIB support and policy and procedural change across the next 3 years.
- 56% of the board is female
- 38% of the board is from the Global Majority
- Over 50% of our team have lived experience of adverse childhood experiences
- 56% of our team are from the Global Majority