The main service policy of our Ministry for children in need of protection is to provide care for children within their own families, relatives, or to avail them of benefiting from family-oriented care, without being taken into institutional care.

As for the children who can not be cared within the family, the last option is to provide services in home-like boarding social service units, which are the closest model to the family structure, for a temporary period, until they benefit from family-oriented services.

As a result of the priority given to family-oriented services in our child protection services, it is seen that the number of children under institutional care has decreased significantly in years despite the increasing population and the diversity of problems encountered. Institution models providing care service are as follows:

Child Homes are house-like units with children in need of protection between the age of 0-18.

Child Homes Buildings Complex (ÇES) is an institution consisting of few house-like social service units located in the same campus where children in need of protection are cared for.

Directorates of Child Homes Coordination Center (ÇEKOM) are centers established in order to carry out, to follow and to control all procedures such as planning, opening and functioning of the child homes in the provinces and to make the expenditures and to ensure coordination between Child Homes.

Child Support Centers are centers providing temporary care and protection for children on the purpose of meeting basic needs of the children detected to require psychosocial support among children with care or protection order because of being dragged into crime, being victims of crime or facing social dangers in the street, determining their physical, emotional, physhological and social needs and performing necessary interventions related to this, returning them to their families and relatives, ensuring them to get ready for other social service models.

Child Protection First Response and Evaluation Units (ÇOKİM) are units providing services until the appropriate service model is determined for children in need of protection or being dragged into crime.