| The problem of street children is a long-standing social problem across many countries and regions. Every government and public people try their best to solve this problem——what kind of services provided for street children and how to help street children to return home and mainstream society. The current models of rescuing street children in China have a certain effect, but there are still a number of problems. And this series of problems have a great relationship with institutionalized rescuing services.The theory of social exclusion, social support network and child welfare perspective is a theoretical support for this article. At first, the author use literature, case study and interview to research the community-based system of rescuing for street children. Second, The authors analyzed the existing models of rescuing for street children in China and pointed out that most models had many problems such as facilities, funding, inadequate staffing, street children repeated wandering, the problem of placement for street children, and so on. And then, author note the direct cause of the problem is institutionalized rescuing services. Third, the author argues that it is necessary to establish community-based system of rescuing for street children. By studying the case of Willow community service system of street children in Sichuan province, the author constructed an ideal model that is the system of community-based rescuing for street children, which is based on community, serviced to children in community, and supported by the government and non-government organization. This system includes management system and community's service system for children. Finally, the paper gives some suggestions to establish this system, including improving the relevant laws and regulations, promoting the development of non-government organization, attracting more social work professional engaged in social assistances, establishing professional team, and so on.
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