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The Rotary Club of Diliman supports the livelihood program by
providing materials for training on soft trade industries and crafts. These
trainings provide Molave residents with opportunities to develop skills
for earning a living when they go back to their respective communities.
The Albert Schweitzer Association of the Philippines helps out with the
medical needs and provides legal assistance to the minors. Religious
groups like the Daughters of Mary Immaculate, the Claretian
Missionaries, the Xavierian Missionaries, and Youth for Christ, regularly
provide formal and non-formal spiritual and values formation activities.
The barangay officials and offices in Quezon City, on the other hand,
help in the after-care program by monitoring and supervising activities
of released minors in their communities.
Model Modality
The Molave Youth Home has been in existence for over 30 years. This
fact alone is testament to the validity of its organizational model and the
modality and approach to rehabilitation that it has adopted and
implemented. Its approach to youth detention service, which puts
emphasis on rehabilitation and assistance for emotional health and
growth, brings significant changes in the personality, character and lives
of youth-in-conflict-with-the-law. Based on feedback from other
coordinating agencies like the National Training School for Boys and
the Albert Schweitzer Association of the Philippines, Molave Youth Home
wards can be easily identified from detainees referred by other agencies
because they are disciplined, well-behaved and courteous. Even
personnel from human rights organizations who frequently visit the facility
have expressed their admiration for the Home, how it is maintained,
and how rehabilitative programs are effectively implemented.
This effective implementation of its rehabilitation program has earned
the Molave Youth Home broad recognition from many sectors.
In 2004 the Department of Health gave the Molave Youth Home an
award for being the second most outstanding detention center for high
marks in the Health Promotion and Health Process indicators.
The Molave Youth Home experience is currently being used by
universities in Metro Manila as a social laboratory for their students in
sociology, social work, psychology and urban issues and concerns.
Apart from this, the Molave Youth Home serves as a showcase both
of the Quezon City government and the Philippines to local and foreign
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