An overview of basic Counselling Services in Child Care Institutes (CCIs) in Kamrup Metro District, Guwahati, Assam

According to Mission Vatsalya Implementation Guidelines Child Care Institutes based on the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015 empowers the State Government either by itself or in collaboration with voluntary organizations to set up homes in every district for the reception and residential care of Children in need of Care and Protection (CNCP) and Children in Conflict with Law (CCL). These CCIs shall serve as a home away from home and provide comprehensive child care facilities to children for their all-round development till the children’s social re-integration through non-institutional care. They shall work towards enhanching the capacities and skills of children and work with their families with the view of facilitating their reintegration and rehabilitation into mainstream society. The mission shall support the different types of CCIs in the districts like Child Care Institutions for Children in Need of Care and Protection, Special Unit for Children with Special Needs, Open Shelters, Specialized Adoption Agencies (SAA) etc. The children who are come to the CCIs are belonged to the different categories like child labour, child marriage, child trafficking, orphan, abandoned etc. The children have come along with their traumatic situation. In this situation it is a big question who will provide them the mental support, proper guidance to overcome their trauma , in CCIs the counsellors are playing the main role to provide the counselling service to the needy children to handle the mental situation properly with dignity. Thus this study is conducted to know the basic Counselling services in CCIS in Kamrup Metro District , Guwahati, Assam and try to highlight some valuable findings for strengthening the counselling services. This paper tries to examine the basic services and issues facing while provide counselling services with a quantitative study among the counsellors with purposive sampling method in the CCIs of Kamrup Metro District for study. Data are collected with quantitative method by using selfmade interview schedule questionnaire. The paper concludes with a study of valuable suggestion to overcome the issues with positive outcome.