Dongdaemun-gu to Create Welfare Vaccine through Public-Private Partnership Sharing Contest Project

Dongdaemun-gu Launches Public-Private Partnership Sharing Project in May... Supported by Community Chest of Korea... Addressing Welfare Issues for Children, Youth, Elderly, and Disabled with Social Welfare Facilities

On the 14th, the Dongdaemun-gu Community Security Council held a practical review committee meeting for the 2021 Sharing Public Project.

[Asia Economy Reporter Park Jong-il] Dongdaemun-gu (Mayor Yoo Deok-yeol) will actively promote the 2021 Public-Private Partnership Sharing Contest Project starting in May.

The Sharing Contest Project is a contest project promoted to strengthen the role of the working-level division of the Dongdaemun-gu Community Security Council by solving various social welfare issues such as children and youth, elderly, disabled, and case management through cooperation between the public and private sectors. It is conducted with the support of the Community Chest of Korea.

To actively promote the project, the Dongdaemun-gu Community Security Council (Chairman Yoo Deok-yeol) held the 2021 Sharing Contest Project Review Working Committee on the 14th and finalized the operating organizations for the project.

The five selected social welfare facilities will each implement projects targeting children and youth, families with disabled members, single-person households, elderly facility workers and users, and welfare blind spots.

Jangan Comprehensive Social Welfare Center, representing the children and youth division, will conduct education for practitioners and teachers to address the increasing issues of child abuse and child and youth suicide due to COVID-19. They will produce and distribute card news that can be used on-site. In the second half of the year, they also plan to hold an acrostic poem and poster contest themed on overcoming COVID blues for children and youth.

The Dongdaemun Disabled Family Support Center, along with institutions belonging to the disabled division, will conduct bowling small group activities with families of disabled persons once or twice a month. In the second half of the year, they will hold a bowling tournament called "Let's Strike Together."

The Dongdaemun-gu Healthy Family and Multicultural Family Support Center will carry out a project to support relationship recovery between single-person households and their families, belonging to the women, family, and multicultural division. To alleviate the social isolation and emotional anxiety of single-person households, which have deepened due to the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic, they will record videos of single-person households and conduct pre- and post-tests using the Family Relationship Scale to verify effectiveness.

The Dongdaemun-gu Disabled Comprehensive Welfare Center will conduct the direct support project for welfare blind spots called "Help Run-up" together with institutions belonging to the integrated case management division. To support temporarily vulnerable groups and households in economic crisis, they plan to identify families in blind spots and support 10 households through a fund support judgment meeting.

The Dementia Relief Center will use the booklet "Protecting Human Rights Together," produced by the elderly division in 2020 under the theme "Save Our Precious Elderly Human Rights," to educate workers of institutions belonging to the elderly division. The trained workers will then educate users, identifying elderly human rights issues and proposing solutions.

Along with the progress of various sharing contest projects, the Community Security Council, a public-private cooperation network of local welfare institutions that directly experience social welfare issues on-site, plans to share project promotion, progress, and performance through working-level division meetings starting in May.

Additionally, the Community Chest of Korea will support a budget of 22.86 million KRW for the 2021 Sharing Contest Project.

Yoo Deok-yeol, Mayor of Dongdaemun-gu and chairman of the Community Security Council, stated, "It is not easy for a single institution to solve local welfare issues alone. If the public and private sectors work together to consider and find solutions to various welfare problems, we will be able to provide customized welfare services centered on residents and create opportunities to overcome the limits of public welfare."

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