younger children, teach them dancing, yoga or share their experiences of independent living with the younger children.
Effective Housing supports: Different Living Arrangements for YAs leaving care Securing suitable accommodations for young people has been a major concern for the care staff across organizations. The accommodation options available to care leavers vary between local areas for reasons such as the availability, cost, and suitability of different living arrangements. As per the JJ Act, Model rules and Integrated Child Protection Scheme, YAs leaving are the responsibilities of States and after care funds to be provided by the States to place YAs on attaining 18 years in community group housing, a temporary residential arrangement for a group of 6-8 young persons for temporary period of time before moving to a place of their own on saving sufficient amount through their income. Types of housing assistance provided by the sample organizations are i) Aftercare housing under After Care Program support under ICPS and ii) Independent housing with financial supports from organizations or independent contributions. This includes government’s social welfare hostels, working women hostels/ swadhar homes at free of cost, private college hostel with costs covered under course fees funded by organizations as well as private hostels, paying guests accommodations, mess and private rented buildings either funded by either organizations or covered by contributions of YAs into jobs. Whilst after care centres/ transitional homes or Group Homes have care leavers with staff to stay with YAs as a support in their living, independent living arrangements do not provide direct care staff from the organizations to stay with them. Care leavers in private rented building (group living accommodations), particularly are completely on their own whereas care leavers in hostels or mess have some sorts of supports of Wardens/Supervisors for their daily living. The YAs leaving care face many challenges in staying in different housing facilities and care givers (future
Types of living arrangements in sample organizations Rainbow Homes: Within families, Private college hostels, Social Welfare Hostels, Working women hostels, mess, rented accommodation for group living SBT: Within families, Private rented buildings, mess, government and private hostel Udayan Care: After care transition home, group or scattered site housing, Social Welfare Hostels, College Hostels, Rented buildings, Women Welfare Hostels, Mess Mahima India: After care unit under ICPS grants, Group Homes for YAs over 21 years, government’s working women hostel/swadhar homes, social welfare/private hostels Baale Mane Trust: Paying Guest accommodations Don Bosco, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Howrah: After Care Centres, Paying Guest Accommodations, private rented rooms SOS Children’s Village, Bangalore: Paying Guest accommodations focal team of Rainbow Homes as well as care staff of sample organizations) struggles to support them to do so. Interviews with young adults transited from Rainbow Homes as well as stakeholders in sample organizations in the study suggest that some of them had experienced challenges in their different living spaces. For example, as evident in the report, there were number of barriers preventing young adults in accessing accommodations in private rented buildings for living in groups, as most of the landlords were not ready to give out to the YAs, particularly to the girls mainly as they are care leavers. Landlords were apprehensive about girls continuing rents and were suspicious about the girls’ point of reference, in case the girls do mischiefs and run away. Some YAs of Rainbow Homes had cooperative landlords helping them showing nearby markets to get things in cheaper rate or providing some household products, identifying their challenges in new set ups and keeping state team Different Shared Living Arrangements for Care Leavers
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