Receiving Home Program

This provides temporary shelter and wholistic residential care to abandoned and surrendered babies from 1-day-old to 4 years old. It is able to support and maintain a maximum of 25 babies at any given time.

Registered nurses supervise the services given by a staff of caregivers in each of the three (3) shifts to cover 24 hours. Usually in poor medical and nutritional condition upon admittance, the babies are nursed back to health and are given the necessary and continuous stimulation to enhance cognitive, affective, psychosocial, motor and language development.

Through this program, CRIBS serves as a halfway home between rejection at birth and adoption later or reunification with the biological parents or relatives.

New Beginnings Program

This serves as a residential center for a maximum of 25 female victims of abuse ages 7 to 17 years old where they are helped to begin their lifelong healing process by providing them with a safe nurturing home environment under the care of substitute houseparents and with as many positive experiences as possible. Participation in this healing process and cooperation of the girls’ families are also sought.

The girls attend formal and special classes and receive individual and group counseling. They participate in therapeutic activities like sports and physical exercises, arts, singing, dancing and drama workshops, spiritual formation and livelihood skills training. They are also provided with home life skills training such as housekeeping, parenting and decision-making and life-planning skills.

Placement Program

The program was created after a thorough review and assessment in 1999. It was realized that there is a need to separate the in-house program needs for the children from the placement demands and preparation of the children and their families.

Foster Family Care

This is an alternative care for our babies who need individualized family care. This would mean residing with a family where the child is welcomed as member of the family, receives close supervision, loving attention and personal care. These foster homes serve temporarily as the children’s families until CRIBS finds permanent placement for them.

The program is open to aspiring couples. To qualify, they are screened by CRIBS and licensed by the DSWD. Those with monthly honoraria are referred to as Subsidized Foster Parents while the ones without are called Volunteer Foster Parents.

Adoption

Each child, surrendered or abandoned, is given the opportunity for adoption. CRIBS facilitates this socio-legal process needed by the child to acquire legal status wherein he/she can benefit from new relationships with permanent family resulting in the same mutual rights and obligations that would have existed between them and their biological parents.

Volunteers Resources Program

Formally launched in 1998, this program was created by the Board in order to organized the volunteers of CRIBS and helps fulfill the many important tasks of the agency that need to be done but beyond staff capacity and agency resources. It acknowledges the volunteers as official and unpaid members of CRIBS workforce and recognizes their contribution as an integral part of the programs. CRIBS itself was started by volunteers and until now CRIBS still do believes that volunteers can help in achieving its mission.

Resource development is an ongoing effort to achieve financial sustainability for program implementation and development. It is the component that allows the program to become responsive and dynamic in meeting the needs of the children