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Identification section of the gameboard used to teach families relevant information during the programme.

Lessons Learnt social housing especially for persons in rural remote areas
should be made a priority.
The Bridge Jamaica Project has proven that there is no
single solution in building resilience, however, a psychosocial Due to the many different causes of poverty and its persistence
approach has the potential to connect household members in light of strategic fights on all fronts, a multi-dimensional
to the programmes that form the national social protection approach that looks at the four critical areas of well-being:
network. A psychosocial approach is complex and requires education; living standards; health; and employment is needed.
coordination and planned activities from multiple actors. This project concretized the fact that the quintessential view
With an individualcentered approach persons are assisted of income as an indicator of well-being should be revisited; a
in identifying and emphasizing themes that could aid in their shift from an economic-centric view to one that recognises how
growth with a view of improving their entire life. an individual’s social and emotional well-being impacts his/her
ability to break the poverty cycle.
The project highlighted the poor housing conditions which
plague some of the nation’s most vulnerable citizens and that

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