Mission
To equip frontline caregivers – social workers, teachers, anganwadi workers, parents, and volunteers – with accessible, neuroscience-backed, and contextually grounded trauma-response skills to protect and nurture vulnerable children.
Vision
A trauma-informed world where every caregiver, no matter where they live or what language they speak, has the tools to recognize, respond, and heal childhood trauma with dignity and confidence.
Core Design Principles : Field Building on Trauma Informed Care in India
CareVerse by Protsahan India Foundation is mobile-first, built to work seamlessly even in low-bandwidth environments. The first set of content is in Hindi, with contextual translations underway in Tamil, Bengali, Urdu, Marathi, Kannada, Punjabi, and Telugu. Designed for Bharat, not just India, it is data-light and currently being optimized for full offline functionality. Each learning journey is AI-personalized based on the caregiver’s role and geography. Rooted in neuroscience and trauma-informed pedagogy, CareVerse is modular like Khan Academy – freely accessible as a digital public learning resource, and continuously shaped through feedback loops with grassroots caregivers and public systems, especially in contexts of climate crises, displacement, and extreme vulnerability.
The Evidence | Distributing the Ability to Solve
Why CareVerse exists, what it has proved, and why it deserves to be invested in.
All three domains showed statistically significant improvement (p < 0.05). Overall performance was the strongest signal.
KNOWLEDGE
3.8 → 5.4
+42%
Strong gains in understanding trauma, fear & adversity responses in social workers
PRACTICE
19.2 → 20.8
+8%
Social workers reported improved confidentiality, referral discipline, and early identification of distress.
OVERALL PERFORMANCE
21.7 → 26.7
+23%
Strongest signal — integrated capability across knowledge, confidence & consistency
Paired pre/post assessments with CWC, JJB, and NGO participants. Paired t-tests used to confirm statistical significance. Sample: pilot cohort, pre vs. post CareVerse training. Longitudinal evaluation studies to be planned 2027–2030 in partnership with a flagship external evaluation partner.
What CareVerse does and how Protsahan works as an institution
After fifteen years inside Delhi’s migrant slum clusters, Protsahan is best understood as a grassroots think-and-do tank building CareVerse, a field-building infrastructure for trauma-informed child protection in India. We build with girls. Alongside frontline caregivers. Inside child protection systems. To end sexual and gender-based violence against children. CareVerse is how we are scaling fifteen years of grassroots wisdom into shared field infrastructure, so that protective action does not depend on whether a girl is lucky enough to live near a Protsahan centre.
We build for frontline agency and action. We don’t gatekeep knowledge. We codify and share it. When one proximate node improves, the system around the girl improves. We create conditions for collaboration. We envision a vibrant ecosystem of diverse organizations that prioritize collaboration and learning. As a field builder, we see no reason to compete. We scale people we work with, not just numbers.
Generating evidence with and for the field beyond us. Sexual and gender based violence against children and girls is pervasive, so we scale with urgency. We maximize the ‘effects’ of our work by continuously generating and using evidence to improve our day-to-day work and anchor it in the slowest, most patient currency child protection knows: trust. The evidence we build is not proprietary IP. It belongs to the field.
We don’t choose between depth and scale. We design for both. Local context shapes the response; shared infrastructure allows replication. The aim is consistent quality of trauma-informed care across geographies, without diluting the relevance of what each girl, each caregiver, each community needs. Depth is not a tradeoff for scale — it is the precondition for scale that lasts.
Equipping India’s caregivers with trauma-response skills | Digital Resource library
Cost of Childhood Trauma
Understand | The Cost of Childhood Trauma
Mental Health for Children in Crises
Understanding Child Protection Risks in Crisis Situations and Emergencies
Decoding Community Mental Health
Mental Health & Major Theoretical Frameworks
Community-Based Mental Health, Building Resilience & Support Networks
Neuroscience of Childhood Trauma
Understanding Adverse Childhood Experiences
Neurobiology & Epigenetics: Decoding A Child’s Brain
Enabling Child Protection with AI
Strengthening the Circle of Child Care with AI
Trauma Informed Online Protection for Children
AI That Cares: Empathetic Algorithms for Healing & Equity
The World with AI: Inclusion, Empowerment & the Future of Child Centered Learning