Gyeonggi-do Announces Call for 31 Organizations to Operate Night and Holiday Programs for Disability Care

Poster for Announcement of Recruitment for Night and Holiday Care Program Institutions for People with Disabilities

Gyeonggi Province is calling for 31 operating organizations to run care programs for people with disabilities and their families during nighttime and holidays as part of the ‘Gyeonggi 360° Care’ project, a flagship welfare policy introduced this year.

From the 1st to the 20th of this month, Gyeonggi Province announced that it is recruiting organizations operating disability welfare facilities and groups within the province to run the ‘Nighttime and Holiday Care Program for People with Disabilities.’

Existing care institutions have been operating only during limited hours from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. on weekdays, providing restricted services focused on regular care, which limited the target recipients mainly to those with severe disabilities, making it difficult to receive ‘care anywhere.’

Accordingly, Gyeonggi Province will select 31 operating organizations through a public contest and provide up to 100 million KRW per institution, fully funded by provincial government support, depending on the type of institution.

The contest categories include ▲ Institution-centered care type ▲ Institution-centered program type ▲ Self-help group autonomous type. Detailed services for each type can be autonomously composed and planned by the applying organizations based on the needs of the target recipients.

For example, the institution-centered care type can provide extended care programs during nighttime and holidays, as well as emergency care programs.

The institution-centered program type can offer performance and exhibition programs and family healing camp programs, while the self-help group autonomous type can operate emotional support groups composed of people with disabilities and their families.

Gyeonggi Province plans to support people with disabilities and their families to use services at the selected operating organizations starting from March, following the recruitment process.

Earlier, Governor Kim Dong-yeon of Gyeonggi Province held the ‘Warm Spring Talk Anywhere’ event in December last year and announced the ‘Care Anywhere’ project. ‘Care Anywhere’ is one of the policies under the ‘Gyeonggi 360° Care’ initiative promoted by Gyeonggi Province.

The ‘360° Care’ project, aimed at minimizing care blind spots, consists of three components: ▲ ‘Care for Anyone,’ which supports all residents in crisis regardless of age or income ▲ ‘Care Anytime,’ which provides emergency care at any desired time for families needing childcare ▲ ‘Care Anywhere,’ which offers customized care for people with disabilities at institutions, homes, nighttime, and weekends.

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