Presentation of an emblematic activity
The Center for the Protection of Children’s’ Rights Foundation (CPCR), a Thai NGO, aims to protect child victims of violence and unlawful cares and provides a resilience service for them and their family members by integrating concerned child protection laws and the multidisciplinary approach. The child protection operation commences from investigation, fact-finding, child protection, rehabilitation, child development, legal assistance and reintegration. CPCR coordinates with a multidisciplinary team by conducting a case conference to support and establish an appropriate rescue plan for child victims. The meeting also aims to summarize the child protection operation and selects the best practice to educate child protection officers and practitioners from state and private organizations, so they understand and adopt a systematic technique from the best practice. Likewise, CPCR promotes a capacity building for the Competent Official under Child Protection Act 2013, child protection officers and practitioners to be able to protect children in their own areas. Moreover, to protect children in holistic ways, the prevention program is another program that CPCR continually coordinates with many sectors. It is the program that aims to build life skills for children and advocate duty bearers – such as family members, schools, communities, volunteers and practitioners – to be able to provide child development, child safety and child safeguarding. With all commitments that CPCR has done, CPCR wants to communicate to all sectors – state organization, private sectors and general public – by establishing many activities and campaigns which aim to invite them to build a caring society for children. At the end, problems of child violence in the society would be diminished. Lastly, in a policy level in Thailand, CPCR is a well-known organization who pushes a systematic child protection operation. In 2012, CPCR had initiated to set up CRC Coalition Thailand. It is a network for all children organizations that aim to facilitate full implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) in Thailand.
