Social Welfare & Community Development Department
The Social Welfare and Community
Development Department shall assist the Assembly to formulate and
implement social welfare and community development policies within the
framework of national policy.
The department shall;
- facilitates community-based rehabilitation of persons with disabilities;
- assists 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;
- assists to maintain specialized residential services in the districts;
- facilitates the registration and supervision of non-governmental organizations and their activities in the district;
- assist to organize community development programmes to improve and enrich rural life through:
- Literacy and adult classes;
- Voluntary contribution and communal
labour for the provision of facilities and services such as water,
schools, library, community centers and public places of convenience
or;
- Teaching deprived or rural women in home management and child care.
SERVICES PROVIDED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL WELFARE
AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
SOCIAL WELFARE UNIT
- Child Non-maintenance cases
- Child Custody / Access cases
- Family Welfare cases
- Missing/abandoned/abused/trafficked children
- Inspection of Early Childhood Development Centres(Daycare Centres)
- Supervision of Children’s Residential Homes
- Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty
- Persons with Disability (PWDs)
- Medical Social Work
- Justice Administration (Family Tribunal/ Juvenile Court)
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT UNIT
- Community Education
- Skills Development and Livelihood
- Community Mobilization
- Community Based Child Protection
HOTLINE FOR VULNERABLE GROUPS
053 307 3589
social.welfare@ashma.gov.gh
comm.development@ashma.gov.gh