A BRIEF REPORT on the Assessment of the After-Care Services for Discharged Children-in-Conflict-with-the-Law (CICL) from the Regional Rehabilitation Center for Youth (RRCY) Region VIII

Monitoring of the progress of clients discharged from the rehabilitation center must be undertaken to ensure that offenders are able to adjust to life after getting institutional help and interventions. After care services also assures smooth transition from institution life to life back to family and community. These basic services must be provided to youngsters after they are discharged from rehabilitation programs. They provide continuity to the care which these offenders were provided while they were under the care and guidance of social workers and other service providers inside the RRCY. No complete rehabilitation will be realized unless after-care services are given to these CICL. In the Philippines where delinquency among the children and youth is a prevalent and major social menace, appropriate interventions have been established and made available to averta continued weakening of the backbone of the country, the youth through RA 9344 which provides measures for the reformation of the minor offenders in mandating certain government agencies to have standard after-care and community-based service program.