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Prevention Programs

           

Spreading Awareness amongst various stakeholders of children; parents, teachers, caretakers, NGO professionals and staff, mental health professionals, Counseling, B.ed, D.ed and Social work students.
Awareness is the first step to prevention. Hence Arpan addresses various stakeholders in a child's life to inform and train them on Child Sexual Abuse. Prevention and Intervention skills are imparted through awareness and training sessions customised as per the target audience.

Arpan also constantly tries to to bring forth the reality of child sexual abuse; its ill effects, myths surrounding it, prevention methods in society through newspapers and magazines .

Teaching Children Personal Safety skills in schools.
This is a comprehensive program that trains parents, teachers, school counselors on prevention and intervention skills with the main focus on teaching children personal safety skills through role play, oral and written materials.
A 6 lesson program is implemented in 6 days. Concepts such as 'Children are special', 'Children have a right to be safe' are reinforced along with teaching them differences between safe and unsafe touches, 3 basic touching rules and that even if abuse happens it is not their fault. To read more click here

Healing Programs

Counseling for child victims, adult survivors, family members and abusers themselves.
At Arpan we believe that along with helping the victim heal it is important to extend help to the abuser as well. It is seen that therapeutic intervention can help abusers stop abusing children in the future. As a method to prevention healing services are offered for abusers too.
Arpan's trained counselors, counsel children and adults to help heal through counseling and therapy sessions.

Building practitioner capability
While there are numerous counselors, very few really have the ability to deal with cases of trauma. Most often children and adults are traumatised due to being sexually abused and need specific therapeutic skills to help heal. Arpan conducts a study group on Trauma for practitioners in the field of mental health and social workers to gain skills on dealing with cases of trauma. Practitioners are taught by Dr. Rani Raote, Mumbai's leading psychotherpaist.

Activity Based Therapy for sexually abused and trafficked minors.
It is seen that alternative therapies like yoga, dance, art and craft help heal traumatised victims and survivors. Arpan extends it's healing programs to sponsor therapeutic activities like yoga to victims of sexual abuse.

ARPAN’s Resources include:

• Multilingual trainers to conduct awareness talks and training programs.
• Counselors and Psychotherapists to provide counseling services
• Support Network of services ranging from psychotherapy to legal action.
• Educational material about Child Sexual Abuse.
• Data Bank of published cases of Child Sexual Abuse reported in the media
• Networking with organisations involved with prevention of Child Sexual Abuse
• Media liaison to create awareness.
• Legal expertise on all aspects of Child Sexual Abuse.
• Trainers who impart sexuality education.
 

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