Department · Old Tafo Municipal Assembly
Social Welfare & Community Development
The department coordinates social development programmes that improve the welfare of people and communities in Old Tafo. It plans and supports community-based projects, day care centres, and services for persons with disability and vulnerable families.
- Social Welfare
- Community Development
- Services listed
- 32
- Units
- 2
- Hotline
- 0322191266
What we do
Services the department provides to residents of the Old Tafo Municipality.
Social welfare services
27 items- Support families and individuals in the handling of Non - Child Maintenance cases, Child Abuse, Custody, Paternity and Family Reconciliation
- Facilitate the implementation of the Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP) activities
- Supervise and monitor the setting up and operations of residential homes
- Conduct and write social investigation report for the purposes of licensing and compliance of the National standards for residential homes
- Handle domestic violence cases and spousal abuse
- Supervise, monitor and facilitate the registration of Day Care Centers
- Supervise and monitor the implementation of Social Intervention programmes eg. School Feeding Program, LEAP
- To intervene in cases of children in Worst Forms of Child Labour
- Rescue, Rehabilitate and Reintegrate victims of Trafficking in Persons (TIPs)
- Provide alternative care for children without parental care such as foster care and adoption
- Identify and Register Persons with Disabilities (PWDs)
- Conduct physical, medical and psychosocial need assessments of PWDs
- Facilitate livelihood empowerment programmes for PWDs
- Facilitate skills training programmes for PWDs
- Provide hospital welfare services
- Undertake sensitization and social education on social problems
- Undertake probation and prison after care services
- Make representation at the juvenile and family courts
- Prepare and submit social enquiry reports
- Provide supervision and mentorship to students from social work training institutions
- Register, monitor and facilitate opportunities for NGOs to develop Social Services in collaboration with the communities
- Engage in Juvenile and family court sittings
- Conduct Social investigations in favour of abandoned children, orphans, abused children, victims of trafficking and child labour as and when required
- Engage in family tracing of missing children and stranded people and assist in family reunification/ reintegration and settlement of such people
- Identify potential foster parents and arrange for alternative care arrangements for OVCs
- Undertake staff capacity development initiatives including Case Conferencing
- Engage communities and groups in sensitization and social education activities on emerging problems
Community development services
5 items- Organise adult education programmes
- Teach deprived women home management and child care
- Offer employable and sustainable skills training for the youth
- Promote and provide alternative livelihood empowerment skills for the deprived in the community
- Conduct community needs assessment
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