Seocho-gu Community Security Council Seoul Emergency Disaster Living Expense Support

A total of 43 staff members from community social security council organizations familiar with various neighborhood areas are dispatched to the Dong Resident Center to assist with quick applications and payments.

[Asia Economy Reporter Park Jong-il] On April 16, on-site registration for the 'Seoul Emergency Disaster Living Expense Support Project' began.

Accordingly, Seocho-gu (District Mayor Cho Eun-hee) joined hands with institutions affiliated with the Seocho-gu Community Social Security Council to prevent on-site confusion caused by the surge in applicants and to practice social distancing.

Currently, frontline community service centers in the local community are severely understaffed due to various urgent projects such as COVID-19 quarantine efforts and temporary living support projects for low-income groups. The Seocho-gu Community Social Security Council is providing the district with a total of 43 personnel from 50 welfare institutions.

They will be dispatched to the community service centers for 10 days excluding weekends until the 29th to assist with on-site guidance, counseling, and the delivery of prepaid cards through home visits.

Seoul City is also deploying additional temporary workers, supporting social workers and life managers from the city's three types of welfare centers (Comprehensive Social Welfare Center, Senior Welfare Center, and Disability Welfare Center) to the respective community service centers. However, in Seocho-gu, 43 welfare personnel who are well acquainted with the neighborhoods through accumulated experience are actively participating in delivering prepaid cards to the elderly and disabled within the community.

As a result, emergency disaster living expenses are being distributed promptly without delay, earning praise from residents. The original work period, from April 13 to 24, has been extended to April 16 to 29 to provide continued support.

The Seocho-gu Community Social Security Council is a public-private cooperative governance body that has played a significant role in important matters related to social welfare projects and policy development within the community by establishing a collaborative partnership between public and private welfare sectors.

More than 50 welfare institutions and 25 public departments have built cooperative partnerships through regular meetings, workshops, and consultations, implementing various welfare projects tailored to the characteristics of each district.

Uniquely operated by district, the Seocho-type public-private council won the Gold Award at the 2019 Asia-Pacific Stevie Awards.

Lee Bong-ju, a professor at Seoul National University and the private chairman of the Seocho-gu Community Social Security Council, along with Park Hyun-kyung, vice-chairwoman and head of the Jamwon Center at Seocho Women and Family Plaza, expressed their pleasure in participating in the collaborative process between public and private sectors to overcome COVID-19 during these difficult times and pledged to actively support the smooth progress of the Seoul Emergency Disaster Living Expense Support Project.

Seocho-gu Mayor Cho Eun-hee stated, “The warm support from the Community Social Security Council will be a great strength in overcoming COVID-19, and we will continue to do our utmost to ensure that residents can quickly apply for and receive emergency disaster living expenses.”

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