Who We Are

The Chinese Childrenhome & Shelter Association (CCSA) is a Taiwanese non-profit organization dedicated to caring for homeless children and facilitating healthy growth and positive development by building a strong resource service network.

Since it was founded in 2002, CCSA believes that education grows under a loving context, and commits to providing care and various supports to children-and-youth-in-care across the country.

Each year, CCSA provides more than 10,000 children-and-youth-in-care with accommodations, physical and mental support, various financial subsidies for schooling and employment, psychological consultation, as well as resource suggestions; all of these aim at promoting the self-independence ability for individuals and communities.  

Mission

To care for children and youth without home care, while facilitating healthy growth and positive development by building a resource service network.

Vision

We strive to become a frim supporter of children-and-youth-in-care, serving as their resource service center.

Values

With the aim of preventing homeless children from falling into a generational cycle of poverty, violence or crime, CCSA advocates and implements policies to help them live a stable life and achieve positive development.

Our role is to provide examples, education and training to the underprivileged children, and hope they will utilize these tools to turn their future around and last for generations.

Whom We Serve

Children and youth fulfilling the below condition(s) are our service targets:

• Orphans or abandoned babies.
• Helpless and without legal guardian(s) or any dependence.
• Without the ability to live independently.
• Having deviant behaviors or are often runaways.
• Having dysfunctional families.
  • Inability to provide children with a stable life.
  • Suffering in mental illness, major injuries, domestic violence or substance abuse.
  • Poverty.