{"id":406,"date":"2022-01-20T15:13:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-20T15:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/ayensuano\/?page_id=406"},"modified":"2022-08-04T11:54:38","modified_gmt":"2022-08-04T11:54:38","slug":"social-welfare-com-devt","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wma.gov.gh\/index.php\/social-welfare-com-devt\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Welfare &#038; Community Development"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>&nbsp;OUR VISION<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To take the lead in integrating the disadvantaged, vulnerable and excluded in mainstream of development.<\/p>\n<p><strong>OUR MISSION<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The department is to work in partnership with individual, families, groups and communities to improve their well-being through their active participation in promoting development with equity.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><u><em>CORE PROGRAMMES OF THE UNIT<\/em><\/u><\/p>\n<p><strong><em><u>Community Care<\/u><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Services to Persons With Disability (PWDs)<\/li>\n<li>Hospital Welfare Services<\/li>\n<li>Response on HIV\/AIDS<\/li>\n<li>Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP)<\/li>\n<li>Work with Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs),<\/li>\n<li>Vocational Training<\/li>\n<li>Hospital Welfare Services<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em><u>Child Rights Promotion and protection<\/u><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Casework with families, eg. Child non-maintenance, child custody, paternity, family welfare, child welfare, family reconciliation, child survival and development, etc.<\/li>\n<li>Early Childhood Development Centres,<\/li>\n<li>Orphanages\/children\u2019s home,<\/li>\n<li>Elimination of child labour,<\/li>\n<li>Child trafficking and other child related issues.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><em><u>&nbsp;<\/u><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Justice Administration<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Court work-(Family Tribunal and Juvenile Courts)<\/li>\n<li>Investigation and writing of social and psychological enquiry reports (SERs) to the courts,<\/li>\n<li>Probation services<\/li>\n<li>Through Care in Department of Social Welfare Institutions,<\/li>\n<li>Adoption and Fostering,<\/li>\n<li>Prison After-care services,<\/li>\n<li>Collaboration with Domestic Violence and Victim Support Unit (DOVVSU) of the Police<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>&nbsp; &nbsp;<u>COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT UNIT<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp; &nbsp;<em> FIVE (5) MAIN PROGRAMMES<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong><em><u>ADULT EDUCATION&nbsp;<\/u><\/em><\/strong><strong>\u2013<\/strong>Mass meeting \/study groups<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; To sensitize, inform and educate the people on government\/ district assemblies programs and policies<\/p>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li><strong><em><u>HOME SCIENCE EXTENSION<\/u><\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Ensures the transfer of skills in home management, nutrition and income generation to organized women\/community groups.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;3. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">EXTENSION<\/span><u> SERVICES<\/u><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Provides specialized skills in community animation, mobilization and organization to governmental \/ non \u2013 governmental agencies i.e. CWSA, NGOs, Rural Enterprise program\/BACs<\/p>\n<p><strong><em><u>&nbsp; &nbsp; 4.YOUTH IN SKILL TRAINING<\/u><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Provision of technical and vocation skills training to youth for self-sufficiency and independence<\/p>\n<ol start=\"5\">\n<li><strong><em><u>SELF \u2013 HELP INITIATIVES<\/u><\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Provision of technical advice and services like carpenters, masons to communities that initiate their own self \u2013 help projects.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;HELPLINE FOR VULNERABLES GROUPS IN WENCHI MUNICIPALITY;<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES<\/li>\n<li>VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE<\/li>\n<li>LEAP BENEFICIARIES<\/li>\n<li>ORPHANED VULNERABLE CHILDREN<\/li>\n<li>TRAFFICKED PERSONS\/CHILDREN, ETC.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; FOR&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <strong>COMPLAINTS\/ENQUIRIES,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;KINDLY CONTACT THE SOCIAL WELFARE UNIT OF WENCHI MUNICIPAL ASSEMBLY ON<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><strong><em>OUR HOTLINES ARE: <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">&nbsp;0509757143\/ 0509757357<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;OUR VISION To take the lead in integrating the disadvantaged, vulnerable and excluded in mainstream of development. 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