Foster Care for 100 Orphan Children in India

About Foster Care:

YCDA has initiated the Alternative Family Based Care Programme focusing on care and protection of the children through community based rehabilitation and family focused alternative care arrangements to ensure the best interest of the children. YCDA plays a pioneer role in promoting non-institutional care in the State of Odisha, India through community centric childcare i.e.  Foster Care/Group Foster Care & Kinship Care.

YCDA started the Foster care & Group foster care initiative for the first time in the state of Odisha after due lunching of ICPS. With a successful demonstration model, it considers that Foster care is the best option for the family in a community to give care and protection who are in need of care & protection. Placing a child in foster care gives the child a safe place to grow, either until the family circumstances improve enough to reunite the child with the parents or till a permanent rehabilitation is done for the child.During the period, our well experienced foster parents continue to provide support of love, caring, nurturing and stability to the children. All 100 children in Foster care arrangements are safe at home and continuing their education.

Key Intervention during the period:

Promotion of Foster care:

During this period, Public Awareness & Campaign has been done for promoting Foster Care concept In Panchayat/village meetings , Public meeting ,Stakeholders (ICDS superpisors,NGOs meetings,this concept has been popularised & reach out to more number of families for their suppot to children .Families have been identified & shown interest for fostering

Counselling ,Monitoring to Families & Renewal:

All 100 children are in family based care. To address the mental wellbeing of children in a positive way, a regular family visit and monitoring has been conducted. Our social workers regularly visits & reviewed the children progress in education, health, psychosocial & recreation and provided support accordingly. All the children have been promoted to the upper classes and continue their learning at schools & self at home. All the children have been produced before the Child welfare committed where the progress has been tracked and goes for further renewal of the arrangement.

Children are regular in schooling :

All the children are continuing their education in school and going to school regularly .After 2 years the children are felt happy and welcomed in their schools where they learnt to main COVID protocols of Using of mask ,sanitisers & socila distancing in classrooms .The Parents are also sending the children to schools with proper materials .The children are enjoying at schools in fun activities i their learning.

Training to Children on Mental Health wellbeing

During the period , all the 100 children are trained on mental health & their well beign where children gain knowledge on the coping mechanism for stress management & learnt the lifeskills in nnovative ways to deal with it. Now children are practicing the fun & learn activities i.e story telling, colouring of pictures, Making drawing & craft work . All the children are making fun with singing , dancing and make enjoyment with friends all the time. Children are able to express and share their feeling to the family members and built a strong relationship.

Thank you for the support to stay together and continue our education. we both are happy to appear our academic examination and hoping good for scored good percentage of marks.

Thank You

SUPPORTERS & GLOBAL GIVING for your generosity !!