ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the selected models of community based interventions for children in difficult circumstances that were presented at a series of four conferences in South Africa. It discusses why the need to re-visit these principles, especially as they seem to have become commonplace in post-apartheid South Africa. The chapter provides descriptive accounts of some of these models to facilitate replication if necessary. It describes the models relate to: family preservation; alternative community care; the Eye on the Children Project; intervention with youth offenders and children in trouble with the law and children affected by HIV/AIDS. The escalating numbers of adults and children with HIV/AIDS have enormous implications for the welfare sector, a number of presentations directly or indirectly addressed HIV/AIDS. In view of the South African Government's failure to adequately address the AIDS epidemic, it is not surprising that NGOs have taken the lead in responding to the direct needs of those infected with and affected by HIV/AIDS.
