Catalysts for Social Action

CSA lends supplementary academic support to children through providing tuitions, recruiting and appointing tuition teachers.

It also supports children with education materials, school uniforms, shoes, stationery and school fees. Tuition teachers are supported through a bi-annual training session taken up by expert consultants.

It also includes life skills and adolescent health programmes in Its curriculum imparting training in communication, self-awareness, critical thinking, collaboration and self-esteem. The academics are mixed with fun activities like excursions, forums, hobby classes and celebrations.

Children undergo medical check-ups twice every year covering dental, eye, ENT and physical examinations.

Nutritionists provide consultations and access to healthy food and drinking water is ensured. Everyday clothing and footwear are taken care of besides maintaining infrastructure like toilets, bathrooms, beds, water filters and availability of electricity.

Children over 14 years of age undergo preparatory programmes including career awareness, counselling, financial literacy training and computer literacy.

Skill training and aftercare support is also provided enabling higher education and placement in good jobs.

CSA believes that no child should be without parents and so promotes the concept of adoption. It helps in making adoption legally free by assisting parental contact of parents with children lodged in welfare homes and also providing legal help where parents want to take up a child for adoption.

It takes up training of staff on juvenile justice acts, best child care practices and the process of keeping legal records and documents in child care institutions besides conducting sensitisation workshops for grassroots level workers, parents, adoptive parents and the judiciary.

The Implementation Model We aim to act as ‘catalysts ‘- leveraging existing institutions and empowering them to improve child outcomes. How Do We Bridge the Gap? We conduct a comprehensive gap analysis using our CCI Evaluation tool at the start of the engagement with the CCI to identify key bottlenecks and target areas for our intervention We devise a 3 to 5 years engagement plan for the CCI either under our GO WIDE program or our GO DEEP program that addresses the problem areas We roll out need specific sub-programs under our 4 categories - Health and Nutrition, Education and Development, Aftercare and Livelihood and Capacity Building and Advocacy Weekly Monitoring and Evaluation of Program Outcomes Quarterly, Half-Yearly and Yearly Evaluation of outcomes against original targets Project Timeline / Geographical Area of Implementation & Beneficiaries Catalysts for Social Action undertakes the development of a Child Care Institution under the program model for a period of 3-7 years depending on the kind of intervention required on the ground level. CSA proposes to work with 1 CCI in Madhya Pradesh - Indore from April 2022 to March 2023

The Implementation Model We aim to act as ‘catalysts ‘- leveraging existing institutions and empowering them to improve child outcomes. How Do We Bridge the Gap? We conduct a comprehensive gap analysis using our CCI Evaluation tool at the start of the engagement with the CCI to identify key bottlenecks and target areas for our intervention We devise a 3 to 5 years engagement plan for the CCI either under our GO WIDE program or our GO DEEP program that addresses the problem areas We roll out need specific sub-programs under our 4 categories - Health and Nutrition, Education and Development, Aftercare and Livelihood and Capacity Building and Advocacy Weekly Monitoring and Evaluation of Program Outcomes Quarterly, Half-Yearly and Yearly Evaluation of outcomes against original targets Project Timeline / Geographical Area of Implementation & Beneficiaries Catalysts for Social Action undertakes the development of a Child Care Institution under the program model for a period of 3-7 years depending on the kind of intervention required on the ground level. CSA proposes to work with 1 CCI in Madhya Pradesh - Indore from April 2022 to March 2023