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 Fostercare is the best option for the family in a community to give care and protection who need care & protection. It has proven that this care arrangement is the most beneficial and desirable environment for the healthy growth and development of a children. 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. All100 children in foster care arrangements are safe at home and continuing their education.

YCDA SUPPORT MECHANISM DURING THE PERIOD:

Promotion of Foster care:

During this period, Public Awareness & Meetings has been done for promoting Foster Care concept In Panchayat/village meetings, public meeting, Stakeholders (ICDS supervisors, NGOs meetings, this concept has been popularized & reach out to a greater number of families for their support to children. Families have been identified & shown interest for fostering.

Need based support to families:

During the Period, the families are continued the support of Dry food ration, Hygiene kit & Learning materials for the 100 children in Foster & Kinship families. The families were provided with Rice, Dal, Soyachunks, Onion, Potatoes, Sugar, Flaked Rice, Soap, Biscuit, learning kits includes art books, notebooks, colour pencil, pen kits. Educational materials, monthly tuition fees and other need-based supports were provided to the children regularly during the period. Time to time we have encouraged children provided with the learning & extra co-curricular materials & Make them engaged with different methodology like paper crafts, coloring, storytelling the feeling, creative drawings. This nutrition kit helped the family members in supplement of intake the nutrients items in their daily meals a day . This happiness kit brought a joy among the vulnerable families.

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. All the children are continuing their education in school and going to school regularly. The children are enjoying at schools in fun activities in their learning.

Learn & fun with children for Mental health wellbeing:

During the period, all the 100 children are trained on mental health & their wellbeing where children gain knowledge on the coping mechanism for stress management & learnt the life skills in innovative ways to deal with it. Now children are practicing the fun & learn activities. We have been observe that learning to manage feeling is mental health for this an activity book has been initiated to engage children in daily routine and expressed their feeling easily in terms of writing, brain storming, colouring , solving puzzels etc. . This book helps children in expressing and share their feeling to the family members and built a strong relationship. In the time being we them to rejoin counselling them and engage the children in creative writings, drawing, reading story books, storytelling etc .to continue our mental health and Psychosocial support for the children. 

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SUPPORTERS & GLOBAL GIVING for your generosity

I am very much happy to live in a family. My Aunt is very much taking care of me every day. She cooked delicious food for me and helped me in maintaining my hygiene every day. I loved to play & learn with my siblings. My favorite play s hide & seek. I felt happy to be with all my family members. Now, I am happy to be enrolled in my schooling and going to school regularly.