Family Counselling Centre, Institute of Social Service
Roshni Nilaya, Mangalore.
Family Counselling Centre was started in the year 1987, a project funded by Central Social Welfare Board (C.S.W.B.) – New Delhi. Since 1995, the grant has been routed through Karnataka State Social Welfare Board, Bangalore. Being a national project of the Government of India, it has to follow the mandates and procedures as laid down by them.
Objectives:
- To provide Preventive, Promotive & Rehabilitative services to women and children who are victims of atrocities and exploitation through counselling.
- To create awareness about the existing laws related to Women & Children and provide facilities like Free Legal Aid, referrals to Short Stay homes, Medical &
- Psychiatric Treatment, Vocational Guidance, and I.Q. & Aptitude Tests.
- To provide services to women and children in distress through crisis interventions, investigation of dowry harassment, marital disharmony, alcoholism and mental illness.
- To enable reconciliation and amicable settlement out of court.
Activities:
- Services for women with problem like
- Harassment and wife battering
- Exploitation
- Dowry
- Marital disharmony
- Family problems
- Mental illness
- Alcoholism
- Legal aid
- Other psycho social problems
Services for children with problem like
- Delinquency
- Scholastic backwardness
- Behaviour problems
- Mental retardation
- Emotional problems
- Other psycho social problems
Services provided
- Counselling
- Psychological tests
- Organising awareness programmes in schools and communities
- Activities Oct 16-Mar.17
- Activitites-1 October 2017 to 31 March 2018
- Activities- 01.10.2018 to 31.03.2019
- General Activity 01.04.2019 to 30.09.2019
- Activity-1 October 2019 to 30 March 2020
- Activity-1 October 2020 to 31 March 2021
- Special Programmes
- Webinar titled “A general view on Alzheimer’s disease" on 24 Sep 2021
- Activities 1st May till 31st October 2021
