Registration
No : Registered
in :
September
2002
Registered as :
Founder :
Present Leader :
Tax Exemptions :
FCRA :
Vision
An
empowered society which works towards giving every child
the right to lead a full and enriched life.
Mission
To
propel the power of community towards the cause of Child
Rehabilitation and Adoption. We will promote, collaborate,
network, advocate, and act as a CATALYST in related social
initiatives. We will be an unstoppable force, inspiring
and channelising action.
Aims/Objects
- To work towards the awareness and promotion of the right
to dignified living.
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To provide through a web-site, access to a repository
of information on social issues / initiatives related
to Child
Welfare, women's concerns etc.
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To initiate research and documentation leading to publication
of papers/ books/ training material/
presentations/videos/films, with a view to increasing
awareness.
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To network, assist, promote, encourage, train and support
agencies involved in social development of people at
local, national and international levels.
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To provide assistance to established agencies in the social
sector, in the areas of technology and automation,
streamlining of procedures and practices, training and
capacity building etc., leading to enhancement of
performance.
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To encourage partnerships, and participate in alliance
building efforts of agencies involved.
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To provide a forum for interactive sessions between various
participant segments of society.
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To work towards the sustainability of special causes of
agencies, by mobilizing funds through sponsorship,
memberships, donations, exhibitions, contributions etc.,
to provide support services and resources.
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To provide opportunities and to facilitate and promote
developmental work for the participant sections of society.
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To do all other such things, as the Society may consider
necessary, conducive or incidental to the attainment or
enlargement of the aforesaid aims and objects or any one
of them.
Brief
We
work with 112 CARA - registered agencies across the country
and, act as facilitators to the adoption stakeholders, bringing
them together on a common platform. We work through Government
bodies, Associations of Parents and Adoptees, Professionals,
Researchers and others. Our initiatives include information
dissemination, research, capability, capacity and community
building, promotion and awareness, and facilitation. We
own 2 Chat Groups– Adoption_experiences@yahoogroups.com
for adoption stakeholders and Adoptees_voices@yahoogroups.comfor
Adult Indian Adoptees.CSA Founder Members and Office Bearers
are a group of highly qualified professionals each, well
established and recognized in his/her field of work. Also,
each member is associated in one way or another with the
cause of Child Welfare and is totally committed to the cause.
CSA is backed by the strength of a 1000+ volunteers spread
across Mumbai, Pune and Delhi in India and in the UK and
US, overseas. Volunteers participate both, through contributions
and active managing committee / volunteer support. CSA initiatives
leverage the strengths of our office bearers, volunteers
and stakeholders.
Focus
Child
welfare, Adoption, Foster Care, Institutionalised Rehabilitation.
Programmes
CSA
Services are built around our twin objectives of enhancing
the total number of adoptions in the country and, improving
the quality of institutionalized child care. As a matter
of practice, our initiatives are backed by Field Research
studies. Also, to the extent possible, our service delivery
is routed through/delivered with, the assistance of stakeholders
who are already active players such as established Adoption
Agencies, ACAs, Aparents’ Associations, Adoptee
Forums and Government departments. We offer the following
services :
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Information Dissemination
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Research
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Awareness & Promotion
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Capability Building
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Capacity Building
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Community Building
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Facilitation
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Children's Participation
In
keeping with CSA’s objective to enhance the number
of adoptions in the country and to do so by working through
much needed changes in the prevalent system of functioning,
we have identified the following projects :
Research
Projects
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Research Project 1 : Best Practices in Adoption, A study
of processes and methods in India
Capability
Building Projects
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Project 1 : Training
Board
Vipul
Prasad Jain - President
Bharati Das Gupta - Secretary
Shibani Jain - Member - Secretary
Dr. Abhimanyu Sengupta
Dr. Meera Oke
Ms. Kashmira Irani
Mr. Rajesh Panicker
Mr. Parag Walve
Mr. Ajit Singh
