VALUES FORMATION EDUCATION PROGRAM (VFEP)
This is essentially a street-based program. It provides a venue for street children to process their bio-psycho-social experiences and needs, and to help them clarify values. The program also presents options to street children: to reunite with their family or, at the very least, to stay in temporary shelters or foster parents or guardians.
The program’s primary task is to undertake informal sessions or discussion with children, usually in streets, parking or vacant lots. Among the topics being discussed are the following: self-awareness, sex education, health, AIDS and drugs awareness, basic literacy, stress and conflict management, and child’s rights and responsibilities, etc.
The SDC also provides first aid, family retracing, counseling, facilitation for school re-entry and other necessary assistance.
Although the program primarily employs the street-based, curative approach, the SDC nevertheless gives values education to children in temporary shelters or rehabilitation centers, as well as values education to community children and their families living in depressed communities, in coordination with organizations or barangay units.
