Self-Reliant partners with Sethu in Goa India, to help over 2,000 children with developmental concerns.
Bethesda MD, March 25, 2020 –Self-Reliant announced today it would partner with Sethu in India to help children with developmental delays.
The new partnership will help children with challenges to receive family-focused transdisciplinary support over a 3-year period and empower their families to enhance their progress, foster their strengths and enable them to achieve their potential.
“We are delighted to be announcing this partnership with Sethu as it contributes to our goal at Self-Reliant of helping children with developmental delay in developing countries become independent adults,” said T. K. Mukherjee, Self-Reliant’s Board Member.
Based on best practice guidelines by the World Health Organization, Self-Reliant is contributing to Sethu’s efforts to change its delivery framework to incorporate Family-Centered Care (FCC). This will ensure that healthcare is planned around the whole family, in which all members are recognized as partners and active decision-makers. Support services are most beneficial when they are delivered through the ‘family-centered’ approach, giving precedence to parent-identified needs such as responding effectively to behavior and developmental concerns, building self-help skills and accessing local resources, with the overall aim of enhancing family functioning. At the core of FCC are the principles of trust and equal partnership between the healthcare provider and the family. Progress will be monitored every six months using key indicators including surveys.
Background:
Self-Reliant is an innovative catalytic not for profit which strives to make children with developmental delay in developing countries to become independent adults. Working at a city level, Self-Reliant’s goal is to identify and certify non-profits who are doing dedicated work in the complete cycle of developmental delay and provide dedicated 5-year financial support at a project level. It also strives to provide complete transparency to donors by providing visibility of end-use of their funds. Self-Reliant also is striving to create national developmental delay platforms where these certified NGOs can share successful projects or ask for help both within the country and from successful child development organizations across the world.
Sethu, a pioneering, not for profit charitable trust, established in 2005, is a leader in the field of child development in India. The team, based in Goa works with children from 0-19 years with the belief that every young person can develop to their maximum potential with the love, attention and proper support from all who care for them. Sethu’s key principle is early intervention and collaboration within their professional team and other stakeholders. By taking a trans-disciplinary approach to support the child, their family, teachers and communities, Sethu aims to be a bridge of hope and understanding between children and the rest of their world. It firmly believes that it takes a village to raise a child. Sethu’s transdisciplinary team of professionals provides early detection, assessment and diagnosis, followed by evidence-based interventions, many of which are administered through parent coaching. Areas covered include; autism intervention, speech and language therapy, parent and teacher training, occupational therapy, remedial education, inclusive education, behavior therapy, child psychotherapy, counselling, and teletherapy. Since its inception, the Sethu team has helped close to 10,000 children and their families. Through partnerships with agencies like Self Reliant, that support and celebrate all children, regardless of their challenges, Sethu seeks to make this world a better place for all its children.
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