| Muskaan |
Child and Adolescent Guidance
The Institute's first Field Action Project was the Child Guidance Clinic (CGC) launched in 1937. It continues today under the name Muskaan: Centre for Child and Adolescent Guidance.
TISStory 75 Years Of Field Action
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Innovation in Praxis (23:34 mins, English, 2012)
A Commitment to Reach Out - 75 Years of Field Action
Field Action Projects were envisioned as providing field work opportunities for students, creating new knowledge for social work and as demonstration projects for new areas of intervention.
Some pioneering projects:
| Special Cell |
Violence against Women and Children
Tackles violence against women and children by working with the police and in police stations.
| The Integrated Rural Health and Development Project |
Rural Develpment
Located in Aghai about 100 kms from Mumbai, in the tribal belt, works with the local population on health and development related.
| Prayas |
Rights of Undertrial Prisoners
Prayas was established in 1990 to demonstrate the need for social work intervention in the criminal justice system such as police stations, prisons, courts and institutions for women, and the necessity of rehabilitating those within the system.
| Childline |
Helpline for Children
India's first telephone helpline for street children, started as a field action project of TISS. It is now an independent nation-wide initiative.
“Childline is an example of the fact that social work practice skills do work. It started as an FAP and today, in 51 cities we have ensured permanent government funding by instituting it as a scheme of the Ministry/ Government of India. We have ensured that the necessary changes have been made in the Juvenile Justice Act. All this was possible because the seeds were sown in the thinking process in TISS – formulation of strategy, thinking macro and integrating theory into practice”.Jeroo Billimoria on Childline
| Humanity United in M-Ward |
Human Rights
HUM strives to bridge the gap between the disparities of varied populations in the Ward. The project aims to create a Human Rights sensitive M-Ward.
| Navchetana |
Child Rights and Abuse
| Koshish |
Homeless & Social Construction
Works with issues of homelessness and social construction of crime, deviance and beggary.
| Global Fund for HIV/ AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria |
Fighting Infectious Diseases
Is a macro endeavour in training and capacity building of professionals so as to make significant changes in development indicators and discourse.
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