Ulsan City Opens Nation’s First Honorary Social Welfare Officer Activity Support Center

Building a Human Safety Net of 10,000 People
Taking Action to Eliminate Welfare Blind Spots

Ulsan City has established the nation’s first Honorary Social Welfare Officer Activity Support Center, taking full-scale action to eliminate welfare blind spots.

On August 28 at 3 p.m., the city will hold an opening ceremony for the Honorary Social Welfare Officer Activity Support Center in the first-floor lobby of the main city hall building.

The ceremony will be attended by Mayor Kim Dookyum, City Council Chairman Lee Seongryong, and around 100 honorary social welfare officers. The event will proceed with a progress report, introduction of the project, ribbon-cutting, and commemorative photo session.

The Activity Support Center, which is being inaugurated on this day, began operations on the second floor of the Traditional Market Support Center on July 14. It serves to provide administrative and financial support for the activities of "honorary social welfare officers"-citizen-participation welfare personnel tasked with early identification of at-risk households in the region and connecting them to necessary support.

The center will carry out a variety of initiatives, including: ▲ recruiting and managing the Neighbor Care Group ▲ providing training and capacity building ▲ discovering welfare blind spots, offering counseling and connecting services ▲ forming public-private cooperation networks.

With the opening of this support center, Ulsan City plans to expand its current workforce of about 5,000 to 10,000, and to build a robust human safety net by reorganizing its structure at the district, county, and township levels.

Through these efforts, the city aims to proactively identify various at-risk households-such as those facing poverty, isolation or seclusion, caregiving burdens, and risk of solitary death-and to realize "zero welfare blind spots" by providing tailored public services and connecting with private sector resources.

Mayor Kim Dookyum stated, "The Honorary Social Welfare Officer Activity Support Center will serve as the new control tower for Ulsan’s welfare policy," adding, "We will thoroughly look after at-risk households throughout the region and build a city free of welfare blind spots."

Ulsan City Hall.

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