Welcome to NICRO Online

Founded 110 years ago in September 1910, NICRO is one of the largest, most enduring South African non-profit organisations. The organisation, which specialises in social crime prevention and offender reintegration, boasts a rich, unparalleled history in human rights, juvenile justice, and innovative criminal justice reform. NICRO renders life changing services to approximately 14 000 to 15 000 direct beneficiaries and touches the lives of between 40 000 and 50 000 South Africans each year.

NICRO launched NICRO Online in 2020.  NICRO Online allows us to increase our reach by offering online interventions, as well as professional development programmes.  Some of the professional programmes are accredited with SACE.

Please visit our website for those contact details.

Important Notice for Court Clients

If you are here because you have been ordered to complete a NICRO programme by a court or prosecutor, you cannot self-register.  The correct process is to contact your nearest NICRO office and follow the formal process. This process will produce an assessment, a court report and aftercare and tracking. Your case worker will enrol you in the required programmes. This is a requirement for all court referrals.

Only private non-court people can self-enrol as they do not need those documents.

Courses list

Adult Lifeskills

Category: Lifeskills and Wellbeing
Adult Lifeskills is a personal growth programme designed for people over the age of 18 years. The programme covers the following topics: The ALP covers the following topics: 1. Personal growth 2. Thinking skills 3. Social skills 4. Civic literacy

Anger Management Programme

Category: Lifeskills and Wellbeing
This programme aims to equip people with the knowledge and skills they need to be able to manage their anger better.

Basic Facilitation Skills

Category: Professional Skills Programmes
This five module programme covers the basics of facilitation: What is facilitation? Preparation and Planning Facilitation skills and Methods Handling Challenging Situations Evaluation and Continuous Improvement.

Basics of Conflict Resolution

Category: Professional Skills Programmes
This programme focuses on teaching people the basic conflict resolution process, which they can apply in their personal and professional lives. The programme consists of videos, assignments and an exam. This programme does not have audio.

Beyond Boundaries

Category: Lifeskills and Wellbeing
Beyond Boundaries is a lifeskillls programme for teenagers. It is designed to develop communication and self-management skills, and enhance an understanding of our responsibilities as well as our rights.

Chance to Change

Category: Lifeskills and Wellbeing
Chance to Change is an online educational programme focusing on alcohol and drug use. It is suitable as a primary and secondary intervention for substance use and abuse. The programme is an adaptation of the World Health Organisation's ASSIST and AUDIT programmes, and is used with permission.

Child Justice Act

Category: Professional Skills Programmes
This programme covers the Child Justice Act as amended in 2022. It covers the following topics: age groups, criminal capacity, arrests, preliminary enquiries, incarceration and legal representation of children.

Child Protection in the South African Context

Category: Professional Skills Programmes
This programme provides a thorough overview of child protection in the South African context. It equips participants with the knowledge and skills they need to implement child protection measures in their organisations, as well as respond to child protection issues in the field.

Choosing the High Road

Category: Lifeskills and Wellbeing
The Choosing the High Road programme is an awareness and road safety education programme that aims to prevent road offences and promote road safety by: • Providing information about road safety, road safety risks and the need to reduce drunk driving, speeding and other risky driving behaviour. • Challenging negative ..

Fatherhood Programme

Category: Lifeskills and Wellbeing
This programme aims to equip male caregivers with the knowledge and skills they need to become positive parents.

Introduction to Bullying for Educators and Practitioners

Category: Professional Skills Programmes
This programme has been designed to familiarise educators and practitioners working in schools with information and strategies to manage bullying in schools. SACE accredited for CPD points : 15 Points (18 April 2024-18 April 2027).

Introduction to Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

Category: Professional Skills Programmes
This is an introductory programme covering the basics of cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT). The goal is to improve the general knowledge of what CBT is and how it can be applied to assist with personal and professional problems. This programme is geared towards professionals such as social workers and psychological ..

Introduction to Crime and Violence Prevention in South Africa

Category: Professional Skills Programmes
This programme is aimed at crime and violence prevention professionals, and seeks to provide a sound introduction to crime and violence prevention in the South African context. The programme covers the main relevant theories and legislation, as well as practical examples of intervention implementation. The outcome is to equip practitioners ..

Introduction to Domestic Violence

Category: Professional Skills Programmes
This programme is no longer available for subscription. Please subscribe to Responding to Domestic Violence instead.

Introduction to Psychosocial Assessments in the Criminal Justice Sector (2024)

Category: Professional Skills Programmes
This programme is designed for social workers, and covers the processes and requirements of producing a strong psychosocial assessment that can be used in court and to guide the interventions provided to a client. The programme costs R500 with a 90 day access license. You must complete the programme in ..

Lionheart: Strength With Honour

Category: Lifeskills and Wellbeing
This programme delves into how to be a good man in today's world. We explore positive traits and behaviours for men, and help empower you to be the best man you can be.

National School Safety Framework (NSSF)

Category: Professional Skills Programmes
The National School Safety Framework (NSSF) is the core response of the Department of Education to school violence. The NSSF was developed by DBE and the Centre for Justice and Crime Prevention (CJCP). CJCP has given NICRO permission to host NSSF training on NICRO Online. This training programme will equip ..

Positive Discipline and Classroom Management

Category: Professional Skills Programmes
This programme provides a detailed introduction to positive classroom discipline. The programme teaches the use of positive discipline in the classroom. This programme is aimed at educators, and facilitators of programmes with children and youth. The content was developed by the Centre for Justice and Crime Prevention (CJCP) for the ..

Positive Parenting Programme

Category: Lifeskills and Wellbeing
This is an online programme for parents and caregivers, providing a solid introduction to important topics such as positive discipline, keeping your child safe online and parenting LGBTIQA children.

Prison Release Support Programme

Category: Lifeskills and Wellbeing
This programme is designed to provide knowledge and skills to people transitioning from prison into the community.

Rapid Intervention for Trauma

Category: Lifeskills and Wellbeing
This programme is a pilot where we are testing out providing basic trauma support services in the form of a programme. Our goal is to make some form of basic trauma support available to people who cannot access counseling or therapy.

Responding to Domestic Violence

Category: Professional Skills Programmes
This programme is designed to equip practitioners with a thorough understanding of domestic violence, covering both victims and perpetrators. The programme is suitable for social workers, lay counsellors, law enforcement, and community safety members. The programme makes use of real-life case studies to consolidate learning and provide opportunities to apply ..

Shifting Gears

Category: Lifeskills and Wellbeing
Shifting Gears is a programme for adult clients who have committed road offences. The purpose of the programme is to (a) Have a positive sustained impact on driving behaviour, so that South Africans can be safe on the road, and (b) Develop and enhance the participants’ understanding of the implications ..

Social Work Supervision

Category: Professional Skills Programmes
This programme is designed to provide a detailed overview of what is required when rendering supervision to social workers. While the content has been developed for social workers, it is also applicable for counselling supervision. The programme costs R500 with a 90 day access license. You must complete the programme ..

SparkStarter

Category: Lifeskills and Wellbeing
SparkStarter seeks to allow people to access the economy through informal or alternative income streams. SparkStarter covers business basics and design thinking methods to help you identify possible income generating ideas.

The Basics of Restorative Justice Conferences

Category: Professional Skills Programmes
This programme introduces practitioners to the basics of implementing restorative justice conferences (RGCs) in the context of the criminal justice system.

The Integrated Crime and Violence Prevention Strategy (ICVPS)

Category: Professional Skills Programmes
This programme contains an introduction to the ICVPS for community crime and violence prevention practitioners. The programme equips learners with the knowledge and skills they need to implement, monitor and evaluate the ICVPS in their community. This programme is a revised update of the older Integrated Social Crime and Violence ..

The Road to Resilience

Category: Lifeskills and Wellbeing
Being emotionally and psychologically resilient means having the ability to adapt and bounce back from difficult or challenging situations. It involves effectively coping with adversity, stress, trauma, or other emotional disturbances, and maintaining mental well-being. This programme covers the basic knowledge and skills you need to become more resilient.

The SACSSP Code of Ethics

Category: Professional Skills Programmes
This programme provides a detailed overview of the South African Council for Social Service Professionals (SACSSP)'s Policy Guidelines for Course of Conduct, Code of Ethics and the Rules for Social Workers.