If the children are new to the platform, the street educator identifies these children and brings them to the shelter. These children are terrified and afraid of going back home. In this situation the educator in the shelter removes their fears and traces their parents’ address, calls the parents to the shelter or goes to their homes to counsel them and integrate the child with them in the presence of the local authorities and compels them to re-induct the child into the school, thus affirming his/her right to education.

Children who have a street experience of more than six months and have emotional bondage with their family, but are scared to go back to their brothers, sisters or parents, often need special attention and counselling. It is necessary to work on their attitude, motivation levels, and habits like drug addiction, smoking tobacco chewing, inhaling correction fluid and alcohol.

The home placement camp helps children to become free of all habits that sap their childhood of energy, happiness and enthusiasm through a process spanning over a month. The camp captures the spirit of meditation and makes the child think about the importance of his family, education and development. The process adopts simple methods like sleeping in a group, reading, writing, playing and morning exercise, to help the child recapture their childhood after living under circumstances of premature adulthood.

The stress of earning for livelihood is relieved through ‘individual identification process’ that is achieved by a designed schedule that introduces elements of responsibility, personal hygiene and self –care. The Camp is held in an environment that is close to nature so as to help the children get away from the routine of their lives on the railway stations and as past experience has shown, it is helpful in facilitating children going back to their homes. It also helps children in generating a sense of belonging to their family and environment.

In the process of consolidating efforts and to sustain the transformation of the children parental counselling is critical. A two-day counselling module is designed to help parents understand the trauma and stress undergone by the children while away from home. It stresses the importance of accommodation space and patience on behalf of parents to restore normalcy in the child’s life, and equally the children are given an awareness that they should be ready to face the realities, with the help of coping mechanisms learnt on the streets, not only to tackle the problems at home but also to assert their rights to childhood.

The local institutions such as local bodies, community-based organizations, community leaders, local voluntary organizations and Police will be consulted and involved to share the responsibility of the child and mobilize necessary support to the parents to fulfil child’s interests. Children who are interested in income generation skills and vocational trainings will be admitted into Technical Institutes and after completion of 18 years will be placed in a suitable job or in a position to start his own business.