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Title: YCDA Experience on Promoting Alternative forms of care for the children without parental care


1
Welcome
  • YCDA Experience on Promoting Alternative forms of
    care for the children without parental care
  • Rajendra Meher

2
About YCDA
  • Name Youth Council for Development Alternatives
    - YCDA
  • Established 1993 in Boudh district
  • (Orissa, India)
  • Target Group
  • - Children 0 to 18 years
  • - Youth and Adolescence
  • - Women

3
Overview of YCDA contd
  • Main area of intervention
  • Child Rights
  • Community Health
  • Livelihood Governance
  • Self Help approach enterprise Dev.
  • Emergence Response

4
What we beliefs
  • Each and every children has lot of potentials
    qualities
  • Children are the most vulnerable members in the
    community and children without parental care are
    at the greatest risk
  • Family is the best place for the children to grow
    and develop his/her potentialities
  • Children can very well share their views and take
    decisions in their affairs

5
Coverage Area
  • We are working in a rural set up, focusing on
    tribal, Dalit and backward communities of western
    Orissa
  • Around 82 families are belongs to BPL category
  • Major source of livelihood are agriculture,
    forest produces and wage earning
  • Persistent drought and failure of coping
    mechanisms have led to high indebtedness among
    the poor resulting in large-scale resource
    alienation through mortgage and sale
  • People are away from the basic services like
    health, education and livelihood

6
Situations
  • The death of both or any one of the parents,
  • Unintentional separation from parents who cannot
    be immediately traced due to communal violence or
    any natural disaster,
  • Unwed child ,
  • Relinquishment or abandonment by parents, for
    economic or other reasons,
  • Temporary or permanent incapacity of the parents
    due to imprisonment, illness etc.
  • Migration
  • Family break dawn

7
Model
  • Various forms of Alternative Child care

8
I. Kinship Care
  • Kinship care is the full-time care of a child
    by a relative in the absence of its natural
    guardian

9
II. Foster care
  • Foster care is a way of providing a family
    life for children who cannot live with their own
    parents due to various reasons.

10
III. Support Child headed Households /
Independent living
  • A child-headed household is one where there
    are no adult available and children live on their
    own. An older child used to take care for other
    siblings.

11
Key Process Micro level
  • Identify Orphan and Vulnerable Children in the
    region and develop their profile / database
  • Discuss with the children and other stakeholders
    regarding placement arrangements as per the best
    interest of child( Foster care , Kinship care or
    independent living )
  • Formation of a local committees involving Self
    Help Group members of the village for Monitoring
    and support
  • Ensure access to essential services, including
    education, health care, birth registration,
    livelihood needs and others

12
Key process
  • Provide periodic training to care givers on
    essential child care services
  • Organize training and exposure camps for the
    children on life skill, child rights etc.
  • Raise awareness at all levels through advocacy
    and social mobilization to create a support for
    children without parental care
  • Project staffs visit regularly to the child,
    interact with the committee members, school
    teachers and families.
  • Organize Drop in Centre to support children
    during trauma and distress
  • Strengthen Child Welfare Committees CWCs in the
    district and mobilize them to work on this issue.

13
Key process - Macro level
  • Organize workshop / meeting with various key
    stakeholders including, government, Unicef etc.
    and advocacy on the issue
  • Sensitize local media and other child focus
    organizations on the issue and approach
  • Take active part in the process initiated by
    government in Children's issue
  • There is a State Task force working on this issue

14
Progress
  • 100 orphan and vulnerable children have been
    supported , out of which, 50 children have lost
    their both father and mother, and 36 children
    lost either or one of them. Other fourteen
    children are orphan due to unwanted motherhood,
    life imprisonment or other reasons.
  • Due to the implementation of the project ninety
    one children are mainstreamed in nearest formal
    school and going regular to school.
  • For the follow-up and monitoring at village level
    a local committee has formed. The committees are
    taking care of regular monitoring at village
    level.

15
Progress
  • Active debates have been generated among various
    stakeholders in the state including childcare
    institutions and Governments on this approach.
  • A state level task force has been formed taking
    six experts from different a area who is working
    on promotion of various alternative child care
    approaches in the state including bringing
    suitable policy change.

16
Learning
  • The community based and family like environment
    is the best option for the children to grow and
    develop his / her potential.
  • Lot of policy issues are there in connection with
    Foster care in the J JAct in the State which
    needs a systematic advocacy to bring the change
  • Every child is special and a systematic planning
    is required for each child in the project to
    bring a substantial change in his/her life

17
Learning contd
  • Under the existing policy framework it is really
    a very difficult task to get a foster family in
    the villages. Policies need to be modified
    keeping the rural situation in to consideration
  • Self Help Group members can take a lead role in
    community level under this project to monitor the
    progress.Community monitoring system can reduce
    child vulnerability and abuse.
  • Special effort required to integrate the children
    in the community. The problem of the children can
    not be addressed in isolation.

18
Challenges
  • Government policies under Juvenile Justice Care
    and Protection Act is not practically feasible in
    our contest
  • CWC which supposed to play a major role in the
    whole process is not functioning as required
  • There is no any existing established practices on
    alternative forms of care

19
Challenges
  • Define vulnerability in a rural set up where
    maximum children are in a same range
  • Identification of Foster family
  • Future prospective/plan of children is not very
    clear as we depends on external resources

20
Children
  • The Ultimate Gift of God to Mankind

21
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