Karnataka
1 exclusive Aftercare home and 2 Aftercare units attached to Children Home for Boys and Children Home for Mentally Challenged Boys at Bangalore
Telangana
3 Service homes
These Homes encourage them to pursue education in high Rs 30 lakhs schools, ITI, Polytechnic and Colleges and also help them to secure a job, mainly to bring them to the main stream of society which ensures financial sustainability and life settlement. In this regard, initial handholding is planned by the Department for older children with a provision of Rs.5000 per month after the child released from Institutions. Govt is also planning to sanction a lumpsum amount of Rs.25000 for these children in case any of the young adults want to enrol in certain training/vocational courses or pursue higher education. The department has the plan of providing autorickshaws for young adults those having driving license and aspiring to pursue their career as drivers.14 Children of 16 years and above are sent to the residential diploma Rs 45 lakhs colleges called as ‘service homes’ funded by WCD to complete their vocational skill training courses. Service Homes were initially meant for deserted wives, widows and destitute women coming from financially/ economically backward families. However, since 2008–2009, the aim and objectives of the Service Home, Hyderabad has been changed, reserving 70% of the seats for orphans, Destitute including trafficked victims. Children can stay and study in these service homes till the age of 19 and at the same time can involve themselves in part time job to earn pocket money.
Enabling Schemes and programs to link with Aftercare Health schemes Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana, earlier known as National Health Protection Scheme (NHPS) is a component of Ayushman Bharat, a flagship health assurance scheme of Government of India, launched as recommended by the National Health Policy 2017. It aims to provide health cover of Rs. 5 lakhs per family per year for secondary and tertiary care hospitalization to poor and vulnerable families. The scheme also covers up to 3 days of pre-hospitalization and 15 days post-hospitalization expenses such as diagnostics and medicines. However, the inclusion of beneficiaries is based on information collated by the Socio-Economic Caste Census of 2011 (SECC 2011) for the families as the unit, but not for care leavers or youth staying independently.
Schemes to support education and vocational skills Schemes towards Scholarships for SCs STs, OBCs and minorities are run by the Government of India and the state governments to help students pursue their studies at high education levels. The centrally-funded scholarships are sponsored by the Government of India and disbursed by different states while the statefunded scholarships are sponsored and disbursed by respective state governments only. An SC ST OBC Scholarship offers suitable financial assistance to SC/ ST/OBC candidates at post-matric level of study. The Merit-Cum-Means Scholarship for the Student belonging to Minority category, on the other hand, aims to provide financial assistance to the poor and meritorious students belonging to minority communities to enable them to pursue professional and technical courses in undergraduate and post graduate levels. Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana (PMKVY) is a skill
14 Child Protection & Governance: Implementation Status of Integrated Child Protection Scheme(ICPS), published by Rainbow Homes, India
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Different Shared Living Arrangements for Care Leavers
