Department of Social Welfare & Community Development

Mr. Solomon Ofosu- Addae
(HEAD OF DEPARTMENT)
SERVICES RELATED TO THE SOCIAL WELFARE UNIT
- General casework management including; Support to families and individuals in Non-Child Maintenance cases, Child abuse, Custody/Access, inheritance, Paternity and Family Reconciliation;
- Support, and handle domestic violence cases and spousal abuse;
- Intervene in cases of children in the Worst Forms of Child Labour;
- Facilitate the implementation of the Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP) activities;
- Supervise and monitor the implementation of Social Intervention programmes eg. School Feeding Programmes;
- Supervise and monitor the setting up and operations of residential homes;
- Conduct and write social investigation reports for licencing and compliance with the National standards for residential homes;
- Supervise, monitor and facilitate the registration of Day Care Centers;
- Remove, Rehabilitate and Reintegrate Street Children;
- 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, register and keep updates on Persons with Disabilities;
- Conduct physical, medical and psychosocial need assessments of PWDs;
- Offer psycho-social counselling to affected persons with disabilities and HIV-AIDS etc;
- Provide hospital welfare services;
- Engage communities and groups in sensitisation and social education activities on emerging social problems;
- Undertake probation and prison aftercare services;
- Make representation at the juvenile and family courts;
- Prepare and submit social enquiry reports;
- Conduct Social investigations for abandoned children, orphans, abused children, victims of trafficking and child labour as and when required;
- Register and facilitate opportunities for NGOs to develop Social Services in collaboration with the communities;
- Create awareness on the prevention and control of HIV/AIDS and community care strategies in collaboration with communities and related agencies;
- Create awareness on population issues such as family planning, reproductive health rights, teenage pregnancy, adolescent health rights and other issues affecting women etc;
- Engage in public sensitisation on child rights and protection;
- Family tracing and reintegration of discharged child offenders and discharged psychiatry patients;
- Assistance to destitute, psychiatry patients and stranded people;
- Engage in family tracing of missing children and stranded people and assist in family reunification/reintegration and settlement of such people;
- Advocate and lobby for the social inclusion of disadvantaged individuals and groups including children, women, the elderly, PWDs, and PLWHAs;
- Supervise and coordinate Care Reform Initiatives (CRI) in the District;
- Assist in the rehabilitation of PWDs and promote job placement;
- Provide alternative care for children without parental;
- Liaise with police, and hospitals and prepare Social Investigation and/or Home study Reports for the Regional Social Welfare office in favour of missing, abandoned or vulnerable children;
- Ensure the establishment of child panels in the district;
Services related to the Community Development Unit
- Organise literacy and adult education programmes.
- Mobilise voluntary contributions and communal labour for the provision of facilities and services such as water, schools, libraries, community centres and public places of convenience.
- Teach deprived or rural women home management and childcare.
- Offer employable and sustainable skills training for the youth.
- Promote and provide alternative livelihood empowerment skills for the deprived in the communities.
- Promote entrepreneurial skills, business support services and linkages to financial institutions to beneficiaries of the skills training programme.
- Provide avenues for other institutions to implement community development programmes.
- Mobilise and train voluntary leaders and community-based organisations as change agents in the communities.