{"id":83,"date":"2025-07-30T13:48:49","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T13:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onma.gov.gh\/?page_id=83"},"modified":"2025-08-05T23:00:46","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T23:00:46","slug":"social-welfare-com-dev","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/onma.gov.gh\/?page_id=83","title":{"rendered":"SOCIAL WELFARE & COM. DEV."},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Grace Boatemaa Benson is the head of Social Welfare and Community Development. She joined the department in 2009.<\/p>

She has a Master of Art in Guidance and Counselling and a Professional Course in Psychology.<\/p>

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ROLES OF SWCD<\/strong><\/h5>

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  1. (a) Facilitate community-based rehabilitation of persons with disabilities through the implementation of the 3% Common Fund allocated for Persons With Disabilities (PWDs);
    (b) Assist and facilitate provision of community care services including:
    Implementation of the Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP) Programme;
    \u2022 Registration of persons with disabilities;
    \u2022 Hospital welfare services;
    \u2022 Assistance to the aged; and
    \u2022 Socio-economic and emotional stability in families;
    (c) Assist to maintain specialized residential services in the districts;
    (d) Facilitate the registration and supervision of non-governmental organizations and their activities in the district;
    (e) Promote and Protect the Rights of the Child, child survival and development, and elimination of child labour.
    (f) Promote Justice Administration including;
    \u2022 Protection of the rights of juveniles

    (g) Child Protection and Family Welfare programme<\/strong><\/li><\/ol>
    • Formation of new groups<\/li>
    • Management of Child Protection case.<\/li>
    • Train and support women group in income generating activities e.g. soap, bead making, fascinator detergent and other handcraft) and other entrepreneurial skills<\/li>
    • Organize community and school sensitization program on child protection and Menstrual hygiene<\/li><\/ul>
      \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong>Gender equality and youth empowerment programme.<\/strong><\/h5>
      • Male and female engagement in gender equality<\/li>
      • Gender base violence<\/li>
      • Domestic violence Act (show Child protection flash cards on teenage pregnancy in schools).<\/li>
      • International women day.<\/li>
      • Gender mainstreaming and Cervical Cancer activities.<\/li><\/ul>
        1. <\/strong>Dissemination of information\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/li><\/ol>
          • Policies and other vital information to the Community members and relay feedback to the Assembly for appropriate action<\/li><\/ul>
            VISION \/ MISSON<\/strong><\/h5>

            To integrate the vulnerable, the disadvantaged and the marginalized into mainstream development.<\/p>

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            Miss Grace Boatemaa Benson Grace Boatemaa Benson is the head of Social Welfare and Community Development. She joined the department in 2009. She has a Master of Art in Guidance and Counselling and a Professional Course in Psychology. She is a member of GASOW(Ghana Association of Social Workers) ROLES OF […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/template-pagebuilder-full-width.php","meta":{"_angie_page":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-83","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onma.gov.gh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/83","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onma.gov.gh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onma.gov.gh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onma.gov.gh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onma.gov.gh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/onma.gov.gh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/83\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":278,"href":"https:\/\/onma.gov.gh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/83\/revisions\/278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onma.gov.gh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}