Mom and Dad Also Need Practice and Healing~

Nowon-gu Operates Family-Centered Customized Case Management Program

Parent Humanities Healing Class, Total 7 Sessions on Saturday Mornings, Targeting Parents of 15 Families

Support for Family Experience Activities Including Pottery Craft, Family Cake Making, Family Cooking Class, Family Dining Out and Movie Watching, Selecting 30 Families

Communication Training Practice Such as Family Communication Counseling and Couple Counseling, Opening Father School in October

Nowon-gu (Mayor Oh Seung-rok) announced that it will operate an advanced family-centered customized case management program to strengthen family relationship functions and prevent child abuse.

This is to help children’s psychological and emotional stability caused by changes in family relationships and to restore family functions through parents’ understanding of their children.

The main programs include ▲Parent Humanities Healing Class ▲Support for Family Experience Activities ▲Family Communication Counseling Program.

First, the ‘Parent Humanities Healing Class’ helps parents establish their role through understanding healthy parenting and life healing.

Topics such as reading the minds of parents and children through picture storybooks, viewing children as parents, the fine line between discipline and abuse, and parent humanities through films are conducted by inviting external professional instructors. It is held on Saturday mornings for working parents and consists of 2 healing classes and 5 humanities lectures, totaling 7 sessions. The target participants are parents of 15 families who wish to join.

In addition, family experience activities support communication and dynamics among family members. This program, running from May to October, offers options such as pottery craft, family cake making, family cooking class, and family dining out or movie watching, which can be freely used at desired times. The goal for this year is 30 families, with 22 families participating last year. In the second half of the year, various family experience activities such as family outings and family sports days will be promoted to enhance intimacy.

The family communication counseling program is also implemented. For families needing improvement in couple and family communication, communication training is conducted at a professional counseling center. Families who participated in the program shared positive feedback, saying, “Our bodies and minds have become more comfortable, and the burden of looking at each other has decreased. The uncomfortable relationships with parents and children have improved, and the consistently serious facial expressions have changed.”

In October, the Father School, which was first held last year and received a good response, will also be opened. A small elite group will directly learn about understanding the father’s role, discipline methods, and interactive physical play with children through professional instructors.

The district plans to continue promoting effective family relationship enhancement programs through satisfaction surveys and monitoring changes in family environments after the program ends.

Meanwhile, to strengthen the public nature of child protection services, the district established the ‘Nowon-gu Child Protection Agency’ in 2018, the first among nationwide basic local governments, leading efforts to eradicate child abuse. It provides counseling, education, medical and psychological treatment for abused children under 18 and their families, as well as perpetrators, offering prompt and professional child protection services.

Also, the Child Welfare Center, reborn as a child and youth complex space through remodeling this year, provides free customized counseling and play therapy for vulnerable children and adolescents.

Oh Seung-rok, Mayor of Nowon-gu, said, “For the healthy and safe growth of children, building a child protection safety net along with family-centered customized case management is very important,” and added, “We will continue to spare no support for family-centered measures so that children can grow up happily through the restoration of family functions.”

This content was produced with the assistance of AI translation services.