SOCIAL WELFARE & COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

The Social Welfare and Community Development Department assist the Assembly to formulate and implement social welfare and community development policies within the framework of national policy.

The Department:

(a) facilitate community-based rehabilitation of persons with disabilities;

(b) assist and facilitate provision of community care services including: registration of persons with disabilities; assistance to the aged; personal. social welfare services; hospital welfare services; assistance to street children, child survival and development; and socio-economic and emotional stability in families;

(d) facilitate the registration and supervision of non-governmental organizations and their activities in the district;

(e) assist to organize community development programmes to improve and enrich rural life through: Literacy and adult education classes; Voluntary contribution and communal labour for the provision of facilities and services such as water, schools, library, community centres and public places of convenience or; teaching deprived or rural women in home management and child care.

LIST OF SERVICES RENDERED DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

CASE MANAGEMENT

Paternity, Custody, Access and Maintenance
Domestic and Gender-Based Violence
Adolescent Pregnancy and Child Marriage
Child labor and Trafficking
Child in conflict with the law
Children outside parental control
Child online abuse including sexual abuse and exploitation
Social protection

SOCIAL PROTECTION PROGRAMMES

Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty
Ghana Employment and Social Protection Program
Ghana School Feeding Programme

COMMUNITY CARE

Registration and support to persons with disabilities
Monitoring the operations of Daycare centers
Monitoring the operations of NGOs

GENDER-DESK OFFICE

Promoting village savings and loans
Community education on Domestic/Gender-Based Violence

Help Call these office lines

+233240140247

+233207587188