How we Work
Arpan’s strategy emphasizes on a holistic multilevel model in order to deal with the issue of Child Sexual Abuse, which is a highly sensitized and socially tabooed issue in the Indian society.
Our Strategies are:
- Prevention and Healing Services for children and adults to prevent Child Sexual Abuse (CSA) and provide psycho-social support, including building appropriate pedagogy for new demographics and expanding local and international reach through digital content and multi-language translation. Under this strategy, we:
- Implement our flagship Personal Safety Education Programme (PSE), a school-based child sexual abuse prevention and intervention program.
- Develop resources for new target audiences to expand the reach of the PSE program.
- Launched www.arpanelearn.com, an e-learning platform that provides children with personal safety messages.
- Training and Capacity Building of Stakeholders to enable others to replicate and scale the delivery of Child Sexual Abuse (CSA) prevention and healing services, including building and delivering training through digital content. Under this strategy we:
- Train and build capacity of stakeholders pan-India to in turn implement the Personal Safety Education programme in their settings and support children who disclose about abuse
- Handhold partners for onwards implementation of the program in their respective settings
- Public Awareness and Systems Strengthening, through research and representation, are used to build mass awareness of Child Sexual Abuse (CSA) and drive systemic change at the local, state, and national levels to integrate Personal Safety Education (PSE) into school curricula and establish prevention and support services across India. Under this strategy,
- Public Awareness focuses on creating mass awareness of CSA through in-person and online engagement, so that individuals and communities recognise the issue and know how to act. This includes:
– Creating awareness about various aspects of CSA through in-person and online awareness sessions, and public awareness campaigns such as Child Safety Week.
– Reach communities, parents, teachers and the wider public through events, webinars, social media, public relations and partnerships.
- Systems strengthening focuses on driving policy and systemic change through evidence-based recommendations. This includes:- Work with governmental bodies and other key stakeholders to open up the dialogue on CSA at a broader level.
– Support the integration of PSE into national/state education systems.
– Provide evidence-based recommendations that inform systemic-level change.
