In 1994 Credo Foundation for Justice (CFJ) began an awareness-creating programme on the problem of
children on the street, and in 1995 we began work on the street as our own response to that Programme.
Credo
Centre was opened
in June 1997 by CFJ in partnership
with the Ministry of Social
Development.
 
The aim of Credo Centre is to reduce the number of children who live and/or work on the street by:
• providing a place of safety with developmental and remedial opportunities
• creating awareness of social injustices against children
• empowering family
We do this in collaboration with other like-minded agencies.
To Achieve Our Purpose We Offer
Drop In Services |
• A safe sanctuary from the horrors of the street
• Basic physical needs of food and clothing
• Counselling |
Remedial Services |
• A chance to be reunited with family
• Opportunity for children to return to school
• An all round development programme
• Emergency short-term night accommodation |
Family Support System
This service is for the families of those children already on the street as well as for families of
those at risk.
Socially displaced children up to 17 years of age.
At Credo each child is treated as an unique person and every effort is made to try to meet his/her
particular individual needs.
“In all matters related to the children the child’s best interest is a primary consideration”
Convention on the Rights of the Child
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To work towards re-instatement, social conformity
and productive citizenship |
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To re-create the family circle where possible |
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To facilitate transition from street to Credo to home/school |
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To offer a safe haven which provides love, care, attention
and security as well as an all-round development programme |
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To empower family and to ensure full parental guidance and
responsibility |
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To create awareness of the reality of socially displaced children
and injustices against children |
Staff of Credo Centre: Jocelyn James Ransome (left), Aldwin Hunte and Faaida James
Our programmes operate twenty-four
hours a day, seven days a
week. Our location is:
Credo Drop-In
and Developmental Centre,
19 Nelson Street,
Port of Spain
Trinidad
Tel: (868) 627-4360 |
