Pocheon City Launches 'Precious First Step Project' Congratulatory Package for Newborns

Pocheon City to Provide Congratulatory Gifts for Families with Newborns
Mayor Baek Younghyeon: "Babies Are the Hope of Pocheon"
Expansion of Birth Celebration Policies Linked to Family Center

On October 23, Pocheon City (Mayor Baek Younghyeon) announced that the Greater Happiness Pocheon City Family Center will officially launch the 'Precious First Step, Celebrating Our Baby's Birth Project,' a support initiative providing congratulatory gifts to families with newborns.

Pocheon City Conducts 'Precious First Step, Celebrating Our Baby's Birth Project'. Photo by Pocheon City

This project was established as a concrete action plan to implement the 'Proactive Response to Low Birthrate and Aging Population,' a key task in the '2025 Pocheon City Population Policy Implementation Plan.' It is designed to sincerely celebrate the birth of babies, support parents as they embark on a new chapter, and systematically connect the family center with households from the earliest stage of childbirth.

The aim is to help families with newborns experience the family center's various services and programs early on, allowing them to directly benefit from the city's family policies and thereby contribute to creating a birth- and parenting-friendly environment.

The congratulatory package includes essential items for newborns, a congratulatory card, and information materials about the family center. By using products from local youth start-ups, the project also contributes to revitalizing the local economy.

This package will be available to all families who complete birth registration after October 1, 2025. Families who register births offline can receive the package at their local administrative welfare center, while those who register online can pick it up directly from the family center.

A representative from the Pocheon City Family Center stated, "This project is the first case of organically linking family center promotion with population policy," adding, "It will serve as an opportunity for families with newborns to recognize the family center as a reliable support institution for childbirth and parenting."

Mayor Baek Younghyeon of Pocheon City said, "The birth of a baby is not only a joy for one family but also the future and hope of Pocheon City," and emphasized, "We will continue to expand family-friendly policies so that families with newborns can feel the warmth of our congratulations and experience the city's family policies from the very beginning."

Meanwhile, the Greater Happiness Pocheon City Family Center, with its vision of being a 'comprehensive family support institution that supports the happiness and growth of families,' is implementing universal and inclusive family support programs throughout the year, such as family counseling, parent education, support for couples' roles, support for single-person households, and operation of shared childcare centers, thereby realizing family-friendly administration that is closely integrated into citizens' daily lives.

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