FIELD LEVEL ACTIVITIES

GENDER RESOURCE CENTRES

Gender Resource Centers can be helping GramaPanchayat to formulate Projects and Programmes under Women Component Plan. It can be act as a nodal point for the support of survivors of violence or exploitation and also the center can take initiative in strengthening and supporting JagrathaSamithi at LSGs. It can develop a team of Gender Resource Group as technical team at the Panchayat level for the project formation, handholding support to the survivors and also as a facilitating team of different activities.. Through the interventions Kudumbashree aims to increase the participation of women in local development and governance.

Aim

To organize and implement programs and projects to address gender issues and to build gender equality in governance by promoting leadership, decision making abilities and challenging power relations

  • Community counsellors are involved with gender self learning activities by providing Psycho social support.
  • Crisis management
  • House visit and support to the abandoned or those who are living alone
  • Premarital Counselling
  • Identify the issue and refer to Snehitha Help Desk or other service providers.
  • Address domestic violence issues
  • Group counselling and awareness classes
  • Counselling support to the cases registered in Block Level Community Counselling centre, Gender Resource Centre and Snehitha gender help desk.
  • Counselling services to the school
  • Business counselling
  • Apart from taking group counselling sessions, community counsellors deal with a number of individual cases too. Over these years, community counsellors in the state dealt with a wide variety of cases and given them adequate support needed. The cases can be broadly classified in to five categories
  • Family issues
  • Adolescent issues
  • Mental health problems
  • Personal disputes
  • Premarital Counselling
  • Community counsellors use various techniques such as case study, mental status examination, behaviour therapy, positive reinforcement etc.