Child Protection India Project #32507

Support 100 Care leavers in India

by Youth Council for Development Alternatives

Project Report | Mar 6, 2019
Report on Aftercare Children

By Anju Ram | Project Director

Introduction:

Aftercare is the provision of care for children after they have reached the age of 18 years, and are discharged from Children’s Homes/Special Homes or from Child Care Institutions (CCIs). Children who have completed 18 years may be referred to as “young adults”. It is to help or prepare them to be self-independent who can be sustained by them-selves during the transition from institutional to independent life..

At age of 18 young adults are not fully equipped to handle life by themselves and need helping hand and guidance from elders. To address this need, YCDA started this Aftercare programme aiming to empower young adults to face positively the challenges of life leaving Institutional care and deprived of family care in order to help them to become financially independent and access to social , legal and health services . This programme also connects the gap for young adults who are just leaving from child care institutions. We teach them life skills frequently, easing them for taking the adult responsibilities. We facilitate for their higher education or skill training and linked to job opportunities. Vocational training is important, so that they can go to make a livable income.

YCDA is working with District Child Protection Unit(DCPU), Child welfare committee (CWC), Child Care Institutions (CCIs), District Administration and initiated group home for Aftercare children.

Rinki’s Journey… Shine in Her Life…

Rinki 19 years differently able young adult was from khurdha district. She was admitted into one Child Care Institution (CCI) in Khurdha after death of her parents. Nobody was taking care of her. She dropped out from 8^th class. Being a differently able where she can’t do much work in one hand as she had interested to do and she hasn’t put off her spirit.

When we started intervention, she is in care of YCDA’s. Our aim was to make her self-sufficient and overcome her challenges. We shifted her to group living home by order of Child Welfare Committee (CWC) as she completed 18 years. She learned many things to manage to herself and with her friends. She got training of life skills to manage effectively and the challenges of everyday life. As she was keen interested to do a course, after career counseling and interest mapping she had been linkage with in DDU-GKY. She enrolled at Madhyam Foundation, Bhubaneswar in tailoring trade. This training course helped her to stand on her own feet and become a self sufficient. Now she is working at Shahi Expert, Bangalore. This is a great achievement for her and morale boost of her confidence level. Now she is performing well and become an independent young adult.

“Thank you for your support and for the confidence that you have given. None of this would have been possible without you. Now I am fulfilling my dream”- Rinki

Thanks to YCDA for taking this initiative. Rinki is an example of face of adversity one can sustain a dream. With a little support, we can give many more children a chance to live their aspirations.

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Dec 4, 2018
New Journey of Children

By Anju Ram | Project Director

When a young adults leave child care institution, they shouldn’t have to do the work alone. We’re here to support them in that “next step” of life. Our aftercare programs are here to help them to lead a better life. Aftercare services available for who have completed the age of eighteen years but have not completed twenty-one years, also available for who are thinking of leaving out of home care who require assistance moving to independent living. During after care children are provided with life skill education, Vocational training, career counselling, placement opportunity, counselling for management emotions, financial support and other supports contribute for the social mainstreaming

Some Key Component of Aftercare:

(i) Community group housing on a temporary basis for groups of 6-8 young person (ii) Encouragement to learn a vocation or gain employment and contribute towards the rent as well as the running of the home (iii) Encouragement to gradually sustain themselves without state support and move out of the group home to stay in a place of their own after saving sufficient amount through their earnings (iv) Provision for a peer counsellor to stay in regular contact with these groups to discuss their rehabilitation plans and provide creative outlets for channelizing their energy and to tide over the crisis periods in their lives(v) Providing stipend during the course of vocational training until the youth gets employment (vi) Arranging loans for youths aspiring to set up for entrepreneurial activities

Group Living: Children are staying in a group 4 to 8 in safe residential home. Here, children are encouraged to live together as a family unit. The room is run by Aftercare children. They learn and share responsibilities of running their own kitchen and home. In this home, the household duties are amicably shared by the children. Children are managing their day to day management. Children are much happier in preparing cooking. Children are now saving their money and use for their basic need. To handle this transition sifting process, many strategies are adopted like group living, independent living, hostels etc. to build their self confidence, life skills, attitude and management capacities.

Life skill education is given to children to enable individuals to deal effectively with the demands and challenges of everyday life. It addresses both the individual and interpersonal issues. It enhances their skill and personality and brings about a positive change in their behavior and attitude. The training focuses on self awareness, empathy, interpersonal relation to effective communication among the participants and developing leadership qualities. Life skill help people make responsible and informed and promote a healthy lifestyle as well career skill.

Training to children

Unicef Team Visit to Aftercare Home

Children in Aftercare Home

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Sep 5, 2018
Life After Institution

By Anju Ram | Project Leader

At the age of 18, young adult aren’t fully equipped to handle their life by themselves. They need guidance and support to lead their life. This Aftercare programme connection the gap helps them to take the responsibility in young adult stage. This programme also empowers them to complete their education, stand on their feet and live independent and successful lives.

Programme Goal

According to the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015 (JJ Act 2015), aftercare in India means ‘making provision of support, financial or otherwise, to persons, who have completed the age of eighteen years but have not completed twenty-one years, and have left any institutional care to join the mainstream of society’

LEGAL AND SCHEME PROVISION

Juvenile Justice Care and Protection Act 2015.

The following sections of Juvenile Justice care and protection Acts 2015, contain legal and

schematic provisions for providing aftercare services in India.

Process to Re-integration to community

Mapping to Identify children(14-17years-pre category & above 18 years)
Prepare Individual Career Plan
Counselling of Individual children
Life skill education and Exposure visit
Vocational Training and Post Placement Support
Produce Child before CWC
Agreement with the child/Young adult on care & support
Action (Education, accomodation, safety security)
Linkage with schemes/sponshorships and enterprenurshiph

Round table meeting with CWC (Child Welfare Committee) and DCPU (District child Protection Unit)

YCDA Resource Centre to promote conducted round table meeting to promote Aftercare programme in Puri in Collaboration with DCPU and CWC Puri. The District Child Protection Unit (DCPU), CWC members, representatives from 21 CCIs, staff from YCDA participated in the discussion. Participants discussed on various issues exist at different level for effective implementation of aftercare support to the children in the district.

Key discussions are as follows:

DCPU presented that in the district there are total 09 numbers of CCIs(Child Care Institution) having 75 numbers of children between the age group of 16 to 18 years . Among them 32 are girls and 43 are boys .
In the meeting it was realized by all the stakeholders that in the district a more focused and systematic aftercare programme is required to support the children who are being institutionalized and reached 18 in various CCIs within the district
To meet the need it was discussed to have a combined effort and to engage YCDA as a technical partner to support the DCPU and other stakeholders for implementing aftercare programme by reaching the targeted children and supporting in their smooth reintegration by empowering them socially and financially

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