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  title info:
    title: From Exploitation to Empowerment
    sub title: A Socio-Legal Model of Rehabilitation and Reintegration of Intellectually Disabled Children
  name:
    name part: Bajpai, Asha.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
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      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: si
    date issued: 2018
    edition: 1st ed. 2018.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XXVIII, 213 p. 27 illus. online resource.
  abstract: This book presents the outcomes of a field action project at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS). Project Chunauti (English translation: Project Challenge) focused on a group of intellectually disabled, orphan children who were survivors of abuse, exploitation and neglect, and describes their journey toward empowerment. It offers a vision and a reproducible, adaptable model for rehabilitation that can foster the social re-integration of intellectually disabled orphans at institutions. As the implementation of laws is especially important for vulnerable groups, the book also outlines a socio-legal approach that not only impacts the children directly, but can also bring about policy level reforms. Project Chunauti was born out of the need to explore options for these children and to set standards for their care, protection, rehabilitation and social re-integration. The core objectives of the project were to provide support and services, including counseling, education, life skills and vocational skills training, as well as medical and psychiatric support to help them overcome the trauma of abuse and exploitation. Its further goal was to train the staff of state-run homes and state authorities, helping them prepare and implement care plans and rehabilitation, combat child sexual abuse and malnutrition, employ positive disciplining, and better understand disabilities. The book also draws on the Project team's experiences of rolling out the replication process in Maharashtra. This book highlights the role of the courts, media and other stakeholders in the journey towards empowerment and justice. It is a combination of social-work methods, application and implementation of law and legal advocacy, as well as best practices for protecting children's rights and developing rehabilitation and re-integration projects for intellectually disabled, orphaned children in India. The interventions detailed here provide a reproducible, adaptable model of intervention for child…
  table of contents: Chapter 1: The Beginnings - The Abuse and Exploitation -- Chapter 2: Working with Partners, Stakeholders and Systems -- Chapter 3: Working with Children- The Processes and the Model and its Replication -- Chapter 4: Towards Empowerment- Changing World and Changing Mindset.
  note: by Asha Bajpai.
  subject:
    topic: Human rights
  subject:
    topic: Social service
  subject:
    topic: People with disabilities
  subject:
    topic: Human Rights
  subject:
    topic: Social Work and Community Development
  subject:
    topic: Disability Studies
  classification: K3236-3268.5
  classification: 341.48
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      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9789811317187
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