Key TLSDF’s strategies are;

• Provide UNCRC-based life skills education, and training to children, youth, women, and families to encourage holistic development.
• Promote and support community participation in the sustainable development of child rights activist groups, and life skills programs.
• Create an inclusive Upper Northern Thai advocacy coalition to prompt widespread change and bring greater awareness to children’s rights
• Conduct operations in collaboration with other local, national, and international organizations for the greater public benefit.
• Advocate for a strong voice of children by facilitating child rights movements, promoting innovative programs, and advocating better policies for and with children in the country and internationally.
• To ensure project sustainability, as well as the interests and personal agency of children as rights holders,

TLSDF employs community-based collaborative frameworks between governmental and non-governmental organizations with a focus on empowering community members. The projects engage with all phases of childhood from before the child is born, working closely with expecting mothers throughout their pregnancies, to early childhood care and development, through family parenting, village day care center, and kindergarten schools. Promoting ‘Know your Rights, Know your Root, and Know your World”; key life skills educational themes with elementary and secondary school up until the age of 18.

Most of TLSDF’s projects work with ethnic, indigenous, and migrant populations situated in areas affected by serious poverty and issues of statelessness among other challenges particularly because the majority of the populations are residing in the remote, high hills and border areas of Thailand and Myanmar.