Rights-based Integrated Child Protection Service Delivery Systems

Dr. Murli Desai, M.A. and Ph.D. in social work, and former Professor at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, was commissioned by CRY to prepare a series of four sourcebooks on rights-based direct practice with children. She has prepared two of the sourcebooks by adapting, updating and adding chapters to her book A Rights-Based Preventative Approach for Psychosocial Well-Being in Childhood, published by Springer, in 2010. Other two sourcebooks are newly prepared by her with a co-author. She has drawn from a comprehensive international literature review; curriculum planning and teaching courses on child development, child welfare and child rights in the USA, India and Singapore; consultancy projects with Governments of India, Tamil Nadu and Goa and with international organisations such as UNICEF, Child Protection Working Group and Save the Children; collaborationwith voluntary organisations such as Butterflies and Child Rights in Goa; teacher training in schools; and experience of conducting and facilitating workshops for adolescents.

Part 1: Systems and Methods for Service Delivery of Rights-Based Integrated Child Protection.- 1. Review of Service Delivery Systems for Welfare, Protection and Justice for Children in India.- 2. Towards Rights-based Integrated Child Protection Service Delivery Systems.- 3. Case Management for Child Protection: Introduction and Pre-Intervention Stages.- 4. Case Management for Child Protection: Intervention and Post-Intervention Stages.- 5. Outcomes-based Project Cycle for Rights-based Integrated Child Protection Centres.- Part 2: Rights-Based Integrated Child Protection Service Delivery Systems.- 6. Children and Families at Risk and Need for Integrated Childcare and Support Centres.- 7. Children and Families in Specific Risk Situations and Need for Support Services.- 8. Children without Parental Care and Need for Integrated Alternative Childcare  Centres.- 9. Specific Alternative Childcare  Services.- 10. Child Victims of Violence and Need for Child Protection Services.- 11. Children in Conflict with Law and Need for Child Protection Services.- Part 3: Rights-Based Integrated Child Protection Service Delivery Systems during Emergencies.- 12.Effects of Emergencies on Children and Need for Integrated Child Protection Centres.- 13. Effects of Armed Conflicts on Children and Need for Integrated Child Protection Centres.- 14. Child Protection Services Needed during Armed Conflicts.- 15. Children in Specific Emergency Situations and Need for Child Protection Services.