Loyola Extension Services
Loyola
Extension Services (LES) was registered in 1986, under the Charitable
Societies Registration Act, as a resource centre and a centre of
outreach and field involvement of the College. The aim and objective of
starting LES was to get the College out of the possible ivory tower,
academic isolation and detachment of the conventional university
institution. Further, the UGC guidelines themselves envisaged teaching,
research and extension as the triple functions of the University system.
Today LES is a multi-dimensional resource centre with training, research, documentation, publication, counselling (Family and Student), child rights, community development and social consultancy as its major services.
Social Labs
As an institution that forms social scientists and activists, the College has taken efforts to build up and use social labs where there is an integration of theory and practice, experimentation and experiential learning. These labs function under the overall supervision of the Principal and the immediate supervision of the Director of Loyola Extension Services. The various labs are:
The centre functions as a social lab for the MSW and MA students in practising their skills. Counselling, social awareness programmes, premarital counselling and legal literacy camps, facilitating rehabilitation and referral services, counselling training programmes, providing resource inputs to NGOs and collaboration with voluntary organizations and government departments are the major activities of the centre. Counselling is provided to clients of various categories and age groups at the centre, sub centres, and in the family court in individual sessions and in groups as required.
The various activities of this cell include conducting Awareness Programmes for the SHGs, facilitating thrift, Credit Services, Self Employment/Income Generation Programme, Human Resource Development, Organization Development and Development of Infrastructure.
CHILDLINE Nodal Agency
Street children, child labourers, children who have been abused, child victims of flesh trade, disabled children, institutionalized children, child drug addicts, children affected by HIV/AIDS, conflict or disasters and children whose families are in crisis are the ones who come within the ambit of its services. Child rights centre functions along with this project.