National YaR Awards

National YaR Awards, then known as HomeLink Awards, was initiated in 2013. The awards celebrates and honour outstanding achievements in the service of the Young at Risk. Till 2017, the awards were only for the best performing Hubs and Nodes of HomeLink Network.

The scope of the awards was broadened with the introduction of several new categories of awards between 2017 and 2019: Personalities of DB YaR Forum, YaR Innovative Programme, YaR Research, YaR Short Film, YaR Life Time Achievement. YaR Children’s Awards, YaR Social Media Award and HomeLink Phoenix Award were added in 2021. YaR Alumni Award was introduced in 2022. YaR Campaign Award was introduced in 2024.

11th edition of the YaR awards ceremony 2024 – took place at Alpha pastoral centre, Cochin, Kerala on 3rd Oct 2024.

The twelfths edition of the awards – YaR Awards 2025 – will soon be notified along with the categories and the judgement criteria for each award.

Please click to view the categories, criteria of judgement