Protsahan India Foundation

Protsahan India Foundation is a Delhi-based non-profit organisation working to protect and empower vulnerable children and adolescent girls through trauma-informed care, education, mental health, gender justice, and child protection. Founded in 2010, the organisation combines direct community interventions with research, advocacy, and systems strengthening to create safe, inclusive, and resilient communities.

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Working closely with governments, schools, child protection institutions, healthcare providers, law enforcement agencies, and civil society organisations, Protsahan promotes healing, prevents violence, and strengthens child protection systems across India. Through its learning centres and national capacity-building programmes, the organisation has positively impacted thousands of children while advancing trauma-informed care and psychosocial wellbeing at scale.

Major Areas of Work

• Child Protection: Preventing abuse, exploitation, trafficking, and violence against children through community interventions and systems strengthening.
• Girls' Education: Improving access to education and reducing school dropouts among vulnerable girls.
• Mental Health & Psychosocial Support: Delivering trauma-informed counselling, healing, and psychosocial support for children and adolescents.
• Gender Justice: Promoting gender equality, adolescent leadership, and prevention of child marriage and gender-based violence.
• Health & SRHR: Providing sexual and reproductive health education, menstrual health awareness, and wellbeing programmes.
• Research & Capacity Building: Developing evidence, training professionals, and strengthening child protection ecosystems across India.

Major Initiatives and Programmes

• Girl Champions Programme: A long-term leadership and empowerment programme supporting vulnerable girls through education, life skills, health, and community leadership.
• CareVerse: A trauma-informed healing ecosystem using creative arts, storytelling, and psychosocial support to help children recover from adversity.
• H.E.A.R.T. Model: Protsahan's evidence-based arts-for-healing framework addressing childhood trauma through creative therapeutic approaches.
• Hriday Dialogues: A national platform connecting policymakers, educators, NGOs, and child protection professionals to strengthen child safeguarding systems.
• The Anganwadi Project: Supporting frontline childcare workers and strengthening Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) for early childhood care and protection.
• Training & Facilitation Programmes: Capacity-building initiatives for teachers, counsellors, social workers, government officials, and NGOs on trauma-informed care, safeguarding, and adverse childhood experiences.

Impact

• Directly impacted over 96,000 girls between 2010 and 2025.
• 98% of participants received Sexual & Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) education.
• 93% of girls remained enrolled in school, with 97% completing Class 12 or higher.
• 69% reported improved emotional resilience and psychosocial wellbeing.
• 99.7% delayed marriage and first pregnancy beyond the legal age.
• 83% secured employment or livelihood opportunities after programme completion.
• Published a 15-Year Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning Report, a 10-Year POCSO Report, and research featured in The Lancet.
• Continues to influence child protection policy through partnerships with governments, institutions, and development organisations.

Protsahan India Foundation offers professionals the opportunity to work across child protection, mental health, education, and gender justice while collaborating with governments, educators, researchers, and frontline practitioners. Team members contribute to trauma-informed programmes that combine grassroots implementation with policy advocacy, research, and systems strengthening to create sustainable social change.

This is a great fit for professionals passionate about child rights, trauma-informed care, community mental health, gender justice, education, and building safer environments where children can heal, learn, and thrive.