Viswa Yuva Kendra

Objective of the Program

To strengthen the love and bonding between caregivers and children.
To improve caregivers' understanding of child development.
To teach caregivers the importance of early childhood development.
To empower caregivers to use their interactions to promote healthy development, regardless of resources such as books or pens and papers, or if the caregivers are literate.
To promote the best development possible for all children.
To improve child health.

Need for capacity building

It has become a mind set of most of the people that, childhood development means physical growth and good health of a baby. Everybody starts talking about the weight of the baby, whether it has been properly immunized or not, whether it gets proper nutritional food, etc. When a woman conceives everybody takes care that she should give birth to a healthy baby. All other domains of development like cognitive skill and social/emotional development are given least priority.

We plan to develop the capacity of caregivers in such a direction that they will recognize the importance of each developmental domain – physical, cognitive, language and social/emotional – to best support the overall well-being of the child, building the foundation for a lifetime of improved health and learning, and the ability to build positive relationships and be a productive member of society.

Type of Trainees and Duration of Training

We provide training to the health service providers engaged for providing services to the children i.e. ICDS workers, crèche teachers, orphan care givers etc. We provide 4 days training to the crèche teachers and orphan care givers and two days for the ICDS workers. The training curriculum designed by Hands to Hearts International, USA is used during the training. It covers physical development, massage, language development, cognitive development, hygiene, social development, importance of daily observation of infants. The trainings organized during this year are as follows:

Sl. No.	Dates	No. of Partici-pants	Category of participation	Venue	Hosting Organization
1	10-13 July’07	20	Creche teachers	VYK	VYK, Angul
2	16-19 July’07	20	-do-	VYK	VYK
3	21-24 July’07	09	Orphan care givers	MDS Ashram Angul	VYK
4	22-25 August	13	Mothers	Bhapur, Dhenkanal	Local SHG
5	28-31 Aug’07	12	Creche teachers	Chaulia, Dhenkanal	AWHAN Dhenkanal
6	15-16 Sep’07	12	ICDS workers	VYK	VYK
7	22-23 Sep’07	12	-do-	Paiksahi, Angul	VYK
8	27-30 Sep’07	18	Creches teachers	Gondia, dhenkanal	AHINSA Dhenkanal
9	8-11 Oct’07	10	-do-	TEL, Angul	VYK
10	16-17 Oct’07	12	ICDS workers	Tapdhol, Angul	VYK
11	27-30 Nov’07	12	Creche teachers	Chaulia, Dhenkanal	AWHAN
12	15-18 Dec’07	11	-do-	Gondia Dhenkanal	AHINSA
13	19-20 Dec’07	12	ICDS workers	-do-	AHINSA
14	18-19 Jan’08	12	-do-	Birnarsingpur	MEET, Boudh
15	20-21 Jan’08	12	-do-	Birnarsingpur	MEET
16	22-23 Feb’08	12	-do-	VYK	VYK
17	20-21 Mar’08	28	-do-	Dhenkanal	BPNI
18	23-24 Mar’08	12	-do-	Birnrsingpur Boudh	MEET
19	28-31 Mar’08	12	Creche teachers	Angul	VYK
20	15-16 April 08	12
21	22-23 April 08	12	ICDS Workers	Chhendipada	VYK
22	20-21 May 08	12
23	28-29 May 08	11	ICDS Workers	Subalaya	ORYSED, Subalaya
24	21-24 June 08	12	Creche Teachers	Angul	VYK
25	28-29 June 08	12	ICDS Workers	Subalaya	ORYSED
26	9-10 July 08	15	ICDS Workers	VYK	VYK
27	15-16 July 08	15	ICDS Workers	VYK	VYK
28	26-27 July 08	12	ICDS Workers	Khandahata	ORYSED
29	25-28 Aug. 08	12	Creche Teachers	Angul	VYK
30	30-31 Aug. 08	11	ICDS Workers	Subalaya	ORYSED
31	11-14 Sept 08	12	Creche Teachers	Angul	VYK
32	19-20 Sept 08	11	ICDS Workers	Angul	VYK
33	27-28 Sept 08	13	ICDS Workers	Subalaya	ORYSED
34	18-21 Oct 08	12	Creche Teachers	Angul	VYK
35	22-23 Oct 08	12	ICDS Workers	Angul	VYK
36	30-31Oct 08	11	ICDS Workers	Birmaharajpur	ORYSED
37	15-16 Nov 08	12	ICDS Workers	Angul	VYK
38	25-26 Nov 08	11	ICDS Workers	Angul	VYK
39	14-15 Dec 08	12	ICDS Workers	BM Pur	ORYSED
40	28-29 Dec 08	11	Creche Teachers	Parsumal	VYK
41	30-31 Dec 08	11	ICDS Workers	Parsumal	VYK
42	26-27 Jan 09	11	ICDS Workers	Ulunda	ORYSED
43	28-29 Jan 09	11	ICDS Workers	Ulunda	ORYSED
44	14-15 Feb 09	11	ICDS Workers	Ulunda	ORYSED
45	16-17 Feb 09	11	ICDS Workers	Ulunda	ORYSED
46	25-28	13	Creche Teachers	Angul	VYK

Training Contents

The training curriculum designed by Hands to Hearts International, USA in collaboration with its India colleagues, is used during the training. It covers physical skill development, language skill development, cognitive skill development, social skill development, brain development, baby massage, health and hygiene, and importance of daily observation of infants.

Training Methodology

Different methodologies are adopted during the training program like lecture method, group discussion, games, singing, story-telling presentations, puppet show and play. We use different games focusing on different domains of development of children. We are also doing follow up during 3 months of the training. Pre Test and Post Test are being done and we also collect trainee feed back for each training.

Trainer and Resource Persons

Ms. Tapaswini Panda, certified trainer of HHI has been trained for 8 days by Ms. Lauren Peterson and Ms. Sujatha Balaje. She has been awarded as certified trainer after imparting a 4 days training independently under the guidance of Ms. Lauren.

To date she has trained ICDS Workers, orphanage caregivers, Crèche caregivers and village mothers. We also use local human Resources like CDPO, Supervisors from dept. of ICDS, Teachers, NGO personnel. We invite local administration as guest/resource person.

Hosting Organizations

Sl. No.	District	Organization
1	Angul	Viswa Yuva Kendra, Baninali
2	Dhenkanal	AWHAN, Chauliakhamar
		AHINSA, Dhenkanal
		BPNI, Dhenkanal
3	Boudh	MEET, Birnarsinghpur
4	Subarnapur	ORYSED, Subalaya

Area of operation

We are now working in Angul, Dhenkanal, Subarnapur and Boudh districts with a plan to expand it to other parts of the state of Odisha.