Counselling at KISS
Counseling Service in KISS (LSE & ARSH)
Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences (estb.1993) is a residential organization pioneering for tribal education and endeavoring towards all-round development of tribal adolescents by empowering them with adequate life skills and knowledge on health. For fulfilling of such, UNFPA supported LSE & ARSH project paved the way forwards. Counseling service figured as the major chunk of the project activities, it’s because the project entirely deals with adolescents who are residing in the campus. Among 12,000( 2010 year) students, nearly 5,000 are belonging to adolescence period and especially this period is known for optimum developmental phase of an individual. Ten to teen boys as well as girls undergo physical, social and psychological transformation and these transformations considerably influence the rest of an individual’s life. Concentrating on the highly important phase of one’s life, an adolescent should feel many more requirements that essentially contribute for balanced growth and development towards his or her adulthood. In this context, guidance and counseling prior to developmental needs of adolescents is acknowledged worldwide and the same has been put into practice in Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences (KISS).
Tribal students, first generation learners have plenty of difficulties and obstacles. They face barriers: language, adjustment in the campus, their own inhibitions, social taboos and customs and so on. In KISS environment, every sort of helps and assistance in the form of mentoring, counseling, coaching and training provided them for overcoming such barriers, which sometimes get in their way of becoming skilled, potential students as well as good, unprejudiced and productive members of society tomorrow. Counseling is being provided to them for their self development, career development and development of competencies for dealing with day to day life situations.
Initiation of Counseling Service
Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences (estb.1993) is a residential organization pioneering for tribal education and endeavoring towards all-round development of tribal adolescents by empowering them with adequate life skills and knowledge on health. For fulfilling of such, UNFPA supported LSE & ARSH project paved the way forwards. Counseling service figured as the major chunk of the project activities, it’s because the project entirely deals with adolescents who are residing in the campus. Among 12,000( 2010 year) students, nearly 5,000 are belonging to adolescence period and especially this period is known for optimum developmental phase of an individual. Ten to teen boys as well as girls undergo physical, social and psychological transformation and these transformations considerably influence the rest of an individual’s life. Concentrating on the highly important phase of one’s life, an adolescent should feel many more requirements that essentially contribute for balanced growth and development towards his or her adulthood. In this context, guidance and counseling prior to developmental needs of adolescents is acknowledged worldwide and the same has been put into practice in Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences (KISS).
Tribal students, first generation learners have plenty of difficulties and obstacles. They face barriers: language, adjustment in the campus, their own inhibitions, social taboos and customs and so on. In KISS environment, every sort of helps and assistance in the form of mentoring, counseling, coaching and training provided them for overcoming such barriers, which sometimes get in their way of becoming skilled, potential students as well as good, unprejudiced and productive members of society tomorrow. Counseling is being provided to them for their self development, career development and development of competencies for dealing with day to day life situations.
Initiation of Counseling Service