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The Pattani Home for Girls’s mission is to provide support and protection for girls aged 6-18 years or up until they reach 24 years old. The eligible girls are those who from 14 southern provinces with various kinds of problems such as social trauma or impact. The home provides 4 basic necessities, social services, education, development promotion, and recreation as well as other activities. The girls are from various backgrounds which comprise Buddhists, Muslims and Christians. They use different kinds of languages. They have to adjust their daily way of living so that they can embrace the foster home style environment where people live together as a group. It is a challenge for the officers to identify, unlock, promote, and develop the capabilities of the children in a concrete way because they are mentally fragile and sensitive to social changes as a result of their minimal social capital compared to other children. We created the project to promote children’s knowledge, special abilities, and life skills as well as ethics in daily lives. It can be further divided into 3 concepts: Concept 1 - All children must have a chance to study and achieve good grades; Concept 2 – All children must join activities based on their abilities, skills and interests, at least one activity per one child; and Concept 3 – All children must have morality, ethics and discipline. Based on the above 3 concepts, the Pattani Home for Girls implemented Concept 2, which is to identify and unlock the capabilities of all children through doing activities. A council has also been established to encourage children’s participation in sharing opinions, providing advice, and designing activities for various clubs including Sports Club, Arts Club, and International Music Club. Such efforts lead to more positive behaviors, less undesirable actions, and improved self esteem.

1) To enhance life skills and well-being for the children under care. By promoting and supporting arts and music which are part of the nature of every child. For identify, highlight, and further develop the capabilities of the children to achieve excellent and concrete results. The children can earn an income while attending school; have guidelines for higher level education, can use their arts and musical skills for future career development. This helps develop the life quality of the children as they can determine their own life goals and improve self-esteem. 2) To remove the negative attitude of the children towards themselves. Some children perceive themselves as an underprivileged child with no social space. The project will help the children to become more confident and understand that as foster children they the same opportunities as other children. 3) To improve the attitude of the outside parties towards the foster home. Helps unlock the children’s capabilities such that they become recognized by others and develop a positive mindset. Also, they will be provided opportunities and places to express themselves as part of society on a regular basis. Award category Provision of services to poor and underprivileged people with equality and cooperation

1) The project is in line with the national policy to promote Thailand to become an innovation-driven society for children development at foster homes nationwide. This can be adapted to the context of the particular location to highlight its uniqueness and outstanding features. For example, in international music, we have a musical band that has all female members. 2) The project helps promote the target groups’ participation in the services and prepare them to be able to access various kinds of services so that they can learn to solve problems ad-hoc and long-term, for instance, for income and social aspects. In so doing, we use a child-based approach in conducting activities to enable children’s full access to activities by taking into consideration most of their needs and benefits. 3) The project Support integrated operations between governments, private and individual entities so that everyone can have joint responsibility for the development of the children for sustainability. 4) The project also involves evaluation of satisfaction and success of the children, the project owner, and the supportive networks. Therefore, the progress of child support activities at the foster home can be monitored based on the foster home’s duties to serve the general public.

1. Increased educational opportunities: 100% children at the foster home must receive basic education according to the mandatory curriculums of the Ministry of Education with quality and comprehensive services. We also provide after-class learning courses. We encourage children to further their study to the maximum academic level – bachelor’s degree, either through regular or vocational schools. This is to provide learning opportunities for every child. For children who complete mandatory courses but could not further their education to the higher level due to their limited learning capabilities, they will be encouraged to further study vocational courses according to their preferences at the Vocational Training Center for Women in the Southern Region Province. Such as courses ranging from hairdressing, traditional massage, baking to cooking. This is to help children to have vocational skills for their future work opportunities when they leave the foster home. 2. Promoted gender equality and girls: The children then had to stay with our foster home to seek assistance and protection. This is why we encourage and support the children to develop leadership skills, be able to make decisions, solve problems at hand, and be self-reliant, through arts and musical activities that help raise their self-esteem.

1) Helps adjust the negative attitude of the children towards themselves. Previously, they did not recognize themselves as a valuable person, not accepted by people in society. However, in reality, those underprivileged children or those affected or faced with social problems can improve their behaviors such that their status as foster home children is accepted by society. 2) Helps change the attitude of the outside parties towards the foster home children. The PR efforts to promote the organization were conducted through the activities under the project so that people gain an understanding of the status of the children in the foster home not troubled children. 3) Helps provide guidelines for furthering studies at a higher level. This will help the children to advance their capabilities in concrete manner. 4) Helps the children to earn income while studying. It also helps them to practice money saving skills so that they have backup money for use in the future. The children learn to appreciate the reward of their own efforts and hard work as well as feel proud of themselves. 5) The children learn to rely on themselves by applying their skills gained to their career or supporting jobs in the future

The project creates a positive impact on most children and youth, especially our target groups which are children in foster homes nationwide. The forms of activities could be customized to be suitable for the context of each foster home. Arts and musical activities are universally accepted and can be adapted to each foster home based on the readiness. For general, children and youth can be enjoyed. The children can take courses at arts and musical schools; or their regular schools can also provide support for the children with special abilities through promotion of arts and musical activities. We have seen numerous success stories of such children via television, YouTube, etc. Such stories can inspire children who have interests in music and arts from generation to generation. The project creates the following impact: To be a foundation for eradicating poverty at grass-roots level. Giving education to the children to the highest level according to their abilities will help raise their quality of life. Promoting activities that are based on their abilities will help drive success. As a result, the children will have special skills and use as a guideline for pursuing their higher level of education and for their career development.

1) To adopt the child-based approach for conducting activities to ensure short-term and long-term sustainability. In this way, the children will be allowed to share opinions and design activities on behalf of the Pattani Children’s Council. 2) To enhance life capital of the children under care so that they have social immunity or power to handle problems or possible risks. This means the children will have more positive power from themselves, family, wisdom, peers and activities, and communities. 3) To identify and unlock special abilities within each child through the promotion of arts and musical activities for further development into concrete results. 4) To identify opportunities and venues for showing children’s abilities in international music and arts to the outside world on a regular basis. This will help the children gain more experience through contests at stages within and outside of Pattani Province. 5) To develop activities to align with interests, skills and abilities of the children as well as the current trends for concrete and consistent results. The children shall be able to apply the knowledge gained from such activities to their study and work.

Our “Foster home children behavior improvement through arts and musical activities” project has been further developed from the Creative Foster Home Children Activity Club project which consisted of Sports Club, Arts Club and Music Club. The club activities were used for correcting undesirable behaviors of the children. Therefore, there were no action goals or expected results of the activities conducted with the children under care or the agency. Subsequently, from the fiscal year 2013 onwards, the Pattani Home for Girls has adopted innovation to improve its services for its target group. Arts and musical activities have been held to develop the girls to become professionals at universal standards. The girls have been encouraged to produce their works continuously so as to improve their behavior, life skills, and ability to live with others in society. This helps change the mindset of the children towards themselves and the perception of the outside parties towards the children at the organization. The agency has identified goals for systematic children development, which include education, special abilities, and ethics and morality, as the expected outcome of the project to ensure that the children gain maximum and can adapt the knowledge gained in their real lives.

1) Human capital: There are 85 children under our care and 8 staff members plus 2 outsourced instructors and 2 volunteer trainers. 2) Finance: The foster home’s budget for arts from 2014 onwards was 60,000 Baht per year; the organization received international musical instruments worth 80,000 Baht from the Chukiat Piticharoenkit Foundation, and for the fiscal year of 2015 the budget for international music instruments was 80,000 Baht and hiring musical instructors was 100,000 Baht. In the fiscal year 2016, the organization received budget support of 300,000 Baht for international music from the Southern Border Provinces Administration Centre. In the fiscal year 2017, the organization also received 200,000 Baht for the melodeon band. 3) Supplies and equipment: - International musical instruments consist of solo guitars, guitar chords, bass, drums, keyboards, speakers, amplifiers, and microphones. - Melodeon band instruments consist of melodeons, cymbals, marching snare drums, marching drums, tom-tom drums, wands, and flags. - Arts tools consist of drawing paper, brushes/color palettes, pencils/rubbers, water colors/chalk colors/acrylic colors, frames, easels, and picture frames. 4) Locations: - Areas within and outside the Pattani Home for Girls include the Pattani Cultural Stage Campus, and the Chiang Mai 700th Anniversary Stadium.

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The project has not yet been applied to the operations in other contexts. This is because the project has been consistently developed within the agency with its first success being realized in 2016. Further development efforts are required to ensure that the activities meet the needs of the children and keep up with the new trends. The guideline for fostering innovation among other government agencies is that all foster homes nationwide may customize the activities under the said project to be suitable for their context. The activities may be used to adjust the behavior of the children and youth such that they can express themselves creatively and spend theirfree time wisely on a regular basis. These arts and musical activities would also help the children to develop their career path in the future.

1) Social aspect The project is based on the popular trends in society where many children show interest in music. Many people have entered competitions and contests as shown through various media to gain income and experience as well as to become artists. As for arts, people’s creativity reflects their mental and emotional needs and indicates if society is moving forward or backwards. National artists are also involved in the activities to help promote concrete and sustainable results for the children at present and in the future. Focus is placed on the sustainability of the agency with the goals to develop the children to become good citizens who are happy, educated, capable, and employed and can live in society with confidence and the ability to rely on themselves without posing a burden for society. 2) Economic aspect The project encourages the children to gain an income while studying. This helps the children to have savings in their bank accounts which the agency has opened for emergency and future needs such as furthering studies at a college or university or for backup purposes when finishing school and returning to the family and society. Also, the children can apply the arts and musical skills they learned to their full-time and part-time work in the future.

1) Children help make the children to be more mentally stabilized through arts and musical activities. The income can be divided into 2 parts. The first part is to support children’s daily expenses and the second part is to be kept in the children’s bank accounts opened by the agency with the Government Savings Bank for future savings. Special knowledge or skills gained from the activities will help build sustainability development for the children as they can use such information as a guideline for choosing a field of study at a higher level. For example, the children who are completing their secondary education can choose visual arts as the area of study at a vocational level. 2) Human resources the staff members will gain knowledge together with the students of each club from the outsourced instructors who have specialized skills in, for example, international music, melodeon music, and arts. The staff members can help teach new groups of children in the long run or transfer knowledge from the older groups of children to the newer groups of children. 3) Budget project expenses are paid based on the budget of the agency. 4)Network The Southern Border Provinces Administration Centre provides international music instruments and melodeons; The Chukiat Piticharoenkit Foundation sponsoring international music instruments for training purposes at the foster home premises; and the Pattani Children Foster Home Foundation supports the purchase of instruments and melodeons. Through this network, national artists in the southern border provinces were invited to be guest speakers to provide knowledge and skills; and site visits to various organizations were held; and children’s artworks were displayed to the public. This network collaboration helps ensure the sustainability of the project activities.

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1) Satisfaction survey form: According to the survey, the satisfaction level of the foster home children who are members of the arts club and the music club was “5” or “Very High”. Hence, great cooperation was achieved in all steps. 2) Project success survey form for arts and musical activities: This form is to be completed by staff members as for music, the survey result was “4” or “High”.This activity is only at the beginning and requires further professional development. As for arts, the survey result was “5” or “Very High”. This is because the artworks look highly professional and can be sold. 3) Satisfaction and success survey forms for the partner organizations that provide budget support for the implementation of project. For international music, the satisfaction survey result was “4” or “High” and the success survey result was “3” or “Medium”. because there were still a limited number of opportunities for contests and for showcasing works. Some events were held during schooldays that children could not attend. As for arts, the satisfaction and the success survey result was also “5” or “Very High”. This can be seen from the artworks shown at Pattani Home for Girls and schools.

Based on the satisfaction and success survey results of the implementation of the “Foster home children behavior improvement through arts and musical activities”, the following impacts were created: 1) Direct impact on children: Children were motivated and inspired to join in such activities on a continuous basis. With the positive outcome, the children were accepted by peers within the foster home and outside world. They also recognized the importance or value of arts and music. 2) Impact on the activity responsible officers: The officers were motivated to put their best efforts in conducting the activities. They put their heart into their services and sacrifice their personal schedule to work for the benefits of others. The greatest benefit is that the children under care and the officers were able to develop guidelines for child development to achieve specific goals. 3) Impact on the Pattani Home for Girls: The agency was given the Outstanding Achievement Award of 2016. This helps boost the morale of the agency and it has established both short-term and long-term plans for its operational development.

1) Quantitative KPIs: For both arts and musical activities, there were 85 children out of 136 children or 63% who joined in the activities. There were 7 children who achieved concrete success as members of the international music band. One of them could apply the musical skills to a part-time job (14.29%). The number of the children who achieved concrete success in the arts activity was 33. There were 3 children (9.09%) who were successful in choosing their area of study at college level. There were 10 children (30.30%) who were assigned as school or college representatives. The children in the arts club have not yet graduated and returned to their family or society. 2) Qualitative KPIs: To determine a level of satisfaction with arts and musical activities of the children and the project responsible officers as well as the supportive network. The satisfaction level of the children under care was “5” or “Very High”, of the activity responsible officers for international music was “4” or “High” while that for arts was “5” or “Very High”, and the supportive network for international music was “4” or “High” while that for arts was “5” or “Very High”.

1) Government agencies: The Southern Border Provinces Administration Centre provided budget support for the purchase of international musical instruments, melodeons, and stages for international music performance contests in the southern border provinces. The Prince of Songkla University, Pattani Campus provided support in terms of stage arrangement for international musical performance at the academic fairs and annual events such as The Princess Galyani Vadhana Institute of Cultural Studies, support for drawing competitions at the annual event of the institute as well as support for a site visit to an applied arts exhibition within the Institute. The One Home team of the Pattani Social Development and Human Security Office provided support for the children under care through shows of artworks at exhibitions on important occasions. 2) Private agencies: The Chukiat Piticharoenkit Foundation provided support for international musical instruments. The Pattani Children Foster Home Foundation provided an additional budget for the purchase of international musical instruments and melodeons. The Chao Mae Lim Ko Niao Shrine Foundation in Pattani Province assistance in terms of location for a study tour of arts and culture in Pattani Province. 3) Individuals who provided support for the activities: We received support from number of the national artists of the southern border region. Examples are as follows: Associate Professor Nicoleh Radenahmad provided support in terms of a location for a study tour of children in arts club and giving a lecture on technical art skills. Ms. Sulaiman Yamo was an instructor to give knowledge and skills on how to use colors and draw with colors to the children in the arts club. She also shared inspirational lessons with the children. Mr. Samran Kaewneam, an expert in international music instruments and melodeons, gave a lecture on music to the children with the instructor’s fee was lower than the rate specified.

1. A leader with a great vision, hands-on and committed to success, is a great source of support for the running of the arts and musical activities for the organization as a whole. 2. A group of capable and knowledgeable members working as one team with clear segregation of duties and a sense of public services will be beneficial to children’s development efforts. The staff members always seek to acquire new knowledge and take actions together with children. They shall be able to expand the scope of activities learned from the outside instructors for children’s continued learning opportunities. 3. The children-centric approach was adopted in the implementation of arts and musical activities. Under such an approach, children were encouraged to participate in all steps of the activities. They were allowed to express their opinions, design their own activities, and jointly solve temporary and long-term problems. 4. Ongoing budget support from the supervisory agency is a key catalyst for the execution of arts and musical activities.The integrated efforts between government, and private in providing support should continue according to the capability of network. However, within the context of southern border region, such a private network could experience limitations on providing support.