The role of specialized institutions in child protection "A field study on a sample of children at risk"

Abstract

The roles and functions of socializing institutions that contribute to the formation of a
personality are varied Individuals are continuously and integrally integrated with the
objectives of their institutional projects, and their community policies.A group of children
may miss the first social institution, the family environment, that provides for its children care
and primary protection through communication networks, interactions and social support the
list is unique and established for the future of their mental health. Factors of family
disintegration and forms emotional deprivation and psychological and social problems push
the children at risk to live in an alternative institutional environment (such as juvenile care
centers) that try to provide them with care and protection guaranteed by all laws, laws and
human values, and protected from all forms of deviations behavior, violence and crime that
our schools are witnessing today.The study aims at identifying the level of social protection
provided by institutions specialized in the care of children at risk, with a sample of children
from 36 resident children the results show that children describe the alternative institutional
environment of the family they provide, they are protected from all forms of violence and
abuse and are treated humanely and respectfully by one party educational actors within the
institution, as they are not subjected to exploitation and neglect, but to develop their personal
and social competencies and their rehabilitation for school and social integration, and thus
achieve mental health like all other children.