When first arriving at Wildflower Home each woman is assessed for both her needs and her strengths. A social worker helps the woman set goals for herself during her time with us. These goals are reviewed every three months and at six months goals are set regarding her future outside of Wildflower Home.

During her time at Wildflower Home various services are offered. These include:

Food and Safe Shelter

The women are offered healthy food and accommodations.

Counseling and Group Therapy

The women meet almost weekly for activities such as art therapy, personal sharing, and healthy conversations. The social worker is available for individual counseling as needed. When necessary the women are referred to an outside psychologist at a local hospital.

Access to Health Services

The women and their children receive health care at a local hospital. This includes prenatal and postnatal care, vaccinations, physical exams, dental work and eye exams.

Literacy Education

Women who have had no opportunities to study as children or who are migrants to Thailand are offered courses in reading and writing Thai. Even women who come in with 3rd or 6th grade levels of education are encouraged to continue to improve their literacy skills. With foreign volunteers on site, the women are also able to learn English approximately an hour a day if it is determined to be helpful to them.

Computer Classes

A woman may study up to four hours of computer a week on site with a qualified teacher. Each woman is taught to use the internet, has her own email address, and learns to work on Microsoft Word. Some are also taught Microsoft Excel and Photoshop. The women have access to the computers to help them find jobs and access information.

Vocational training skills

Skills training is done both on site and off site. With a new focus on sustainable development, courses will be offered in organic gardening, composting, methods for increasing crop yield, building earthen houses, making one’s own soaps and shampoo, etc. with practice done on site. Ten week government courses offered at polytechnic college are also optional for our women who want to pursue courses such as cooking, hair dressing, sewing, etc. Other practical life skills are taught as the women are expected to participate in daily tasks onsite.

Capacity Building Exercises

Women are offered classes in leadership training, values based planning, healthy relationships, and critical thinking.

Health Care Education

A qualified nurse teaches a variety of subjects ranging from pregnancy and childbirth, nutrition, childhood diseases, etc.

Spiritual Guidance

Quiet time is built into our schedule each morning so that women from mixed religious traditions can pray in their own way. Time is made for retreats, speakers, and visits from religious leaders. Women are encouraged to be faithful to religious traditions that teach positive values, lead to greater peace, forgiveness and loving relationships.

Employment

Women who are not coming to us late in their pregnancy or who do not have young infant children are free to seek employment off site to help them toward seeking self-sufficiency.

Financial Management

Women are taught to budget, save, and receive personal counseling regarding their expenses.

Day Care Services

The women share among themselves the responsibility for basic child care for the infants and more of a learning routine for the toddlers as they rotate being in classes and working. Volunteers from the local community also come in to help with child care. Day care services are opened up to the community as a small source of income and a way to be more connected with the community.

Income Generation Projects

The women are encouraged to produce and sell craft items at local markets and on special occasions. As the women learn various skills and become more organized in their approach, this will be one path toward organizational self sustainability.