SOS Children

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SOS Childrens Villages of IndiaUdayan Care
Conference (18-19 March2016)

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Whatever their circumstanceshelplessabandonedho
melesswith no one to call their own when
children come home to a SOS Village, they are
brought up in an environment close to a normal
family.
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SOS India Filling a need
Our Vision
Every child belongs to a family grows with
love, respect security
Our Mission
We build families for children in need, we help
to shape their own futures, and we share in the
development of their communities
out-of-home family-based care
prevent children from losing parental care
SOS Childrens Villages
Family Strengthening
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SOS India-National Foot Print

• Today we are a network of 32 childrens villages
  
• Where 6,600 children are growing up
• We also reach out to 24,000 children through our
  family strengthening program

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Program Interventions

• Within programs concrete responses are made
  through three types of Interventions
• Direct Essential Services - which are made
  available to fulfil the childs survival,
  development, protection and participation rights
• Capacity building to support care givers,
  families, communities and other duty bearers to
  develop knowledge, skills, resources, systems and
  structures to protect and care for children
• Advocacy- actions aim to improve the overall
  framework conditions for the children of our
  target group by bringing about changes in
  policies and programs that undermine their rights

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Key elements of our FBC work

• Individualized care plan for each child
• -Child development plan
• Stable trained care giver which helps in
  building lasting relationships
• Provides opportunity for growth and development
  of each child according to his/her potential
• Siblings entrusted in our care stay in the same
  family homes
• Provides care beyond eighteen years

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Continuum of care beyond 18 yrs.

• After Care Program
• The After care program beyond 18 yrs. is an
  integral part of our long term care program for
  children entrusted in our care. We have a three
  tier care and support program for our youth
• The 1st stage (Arunodaya) 12 -18 yrs.
• The 2nd Stage (Sopan) 18 -22 yrs.
• The 3rd Stage (Ghronda)- 22-25 yrs.-three year
  support program .
• The Youth care program key features
• Youth Development programes
• MIMN Test
• Child protection and cyber safety modules
• Soft skill development programmes
• PYD ( Positive Youth Development) Activities
• Listening to youth exercise
• Social skill Assessment
• Settled youth Quality settlement Assessment
  ongoing

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• The Youth after care program ensures
• Vocational skills for all through government
  recognized courses
• English speaking skills
• IT Skills
• 100 employment for our youth

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Snap shot of couses taken up by Children after
school in 2014

• In 2014 about 220 children took up the
  following courses
• 31-Managemen t 3-teaching
• 28-Commerce 3-Agriculture
• 28-nursing 2-Law
• 25-Hotel management 21-Engeeneering
• 23- Social work 8-paramedics
• 8-physical education 21-computer
• 7-Humanities 3-design
• 6-Mass media 3-Fine arts

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Impact

• Pioneered the SOS care model in the country by
  providing a nurturing environment to children
  without families .
• Through this programme more than 4,500 youth
  have been settled till date . They are now
  independent and self reliant in professions such
  as medicine, journalism, aviation, army ,
  teaching etc.
• ( We have documented Success stories of our
  settled children)
• Currently more than 6,600 children growing up in
  440 SOS families in 32 childrens Villages and
  32 youth homes( after care programs) across the
  country

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THANK YOU