Family and Child Welfare

Family and Child Welfare 3 (3+0)

Lesson 48 : Development Schemes for Women

Short Stay Homes for Women and Girls

Objectives :

1. To provide temporary shelter and support to women and girls who have no social support systems to rely on.
2. To rehabilitate women and girls socially and economically by provision of skill training and counseling

Eligibility:

1. those who are being forced into prostitution.
2. those who as a result of family tension or discord, are made to leave their homes without any means of subsistence and have no social protection from exploitation and/ or facing litigation on account of marital disputes.
3. those who escape from their homes due to family problems, physical torture for counseling and their rehabilitation and re-adjustment in family/society.
4. those who have been sexually assaulted and are facing the problem of re-adjustment in the family or society.
5. victims of mental adjustment, emotional disturbances and social ostracism.
6. children accompanying the mother or born in the Institution may be permitted to stay in the home only up to the age of 7 years after which they may be transferred to children's institutions or provided foster care facilities.

Pattern of Assistance:
Recurring grant of Rs. 4.00 lakhs will be released in two installments. Non-recurring grant will be sanctioned only once at the time of starting a new short stay home.
At present 28 short stay homes are functioning in the state