Programs
AANGAN IN INSTITUTIONS:
Raising Standards of Care - A Monitoring Tool for children's
institutions
(Developed in partnership with UNICEF, India)
India's children's institutions (Observation and Children's Home) have in the past been notoriously prison-like and mismanaged. This tool is a 100-point checklist to raise standards of care by translating the child friendly spirit of India's Juvenile Justice Act into actionable terms. Designed for use by state authorities (state Departments of Women and Child Development) as well as ground level institutional staff (who manage Homes), the tool ensures that the institutionalized child's voice reaches state authorities as it centers around child participation. The tool has been introduced in Maharashtra, MP, UP, Gujarat, Orissa, Assam, Karnataka, and West Bengal, Bihar, where Aangan works in partnership with the state (in some states we also partner with UNICEF).
Raising Standards of Care – Capacity Building for children’s institutions
Aangan's monitoring of children's institutions goes beyond inspections. Our effort is to identify challenges and priorities and we participate in addressing these through capacity building and ground level on-site support in Homes.
AANGAN IN HIGH-RISK COMMUNITIES:
Youth Pathway Drop-in Centers:
Youth Pathway Project Centers have been set up in four of Mumbai neighborhoods: Dongri, Bhiwandi, Antop Hill and Govandi. The goal of the Centers is to provide a safe space and constructive activities for youth, along with guidance and support in areas of health, education, vocational training, counseling, recreation, family issues.
Shakti (Strength):
Shakti is a forty-hour program for girls builds collectives and develops support networks as the basis for leadership. This unique project links individual or personal empowerment with young women’s public participation in the community setting, ensuring that they can access their rights, available services and make informed choices. Shakti sessions culminate in group community projects around girls’education, health, safety. To read more about these peer-run Shakti initiatives, click here. To know more about The Shakti Training Curriculum, write to us at shaktigirls@gmail.com.
Pragati (Progress):
This project has been designed for high-risk boys. It aims at discussion and strategizing around dangerous and anti-social behavior. This program helps to break the cycles of crime, violence and risky behavior through an innovative program of challenges, contests, and assignments. This project uses media assignments (movies, documentaries etc); activities, events and experiences that help youth develop social, ethical, emotional, physical, and cognitive competencies. To know about youth media projects, click here.
Chauraha (Crossroads):
This project is designed for children in conflict with law. Placed in Observations Homes, a Community Support Desk model facilitates reintegration and rehabilitation – through continued mentoring, parent/guardian support and strengthening linkages in the community. Aangan is currently working in two Observation Homes, aiming to reach over 300 children and their parents in the year. To read about cases and Aangan’s work, click here. |
