DSWD’s monitored cases of elderly abuse led to the pilot testing of a Reporting System and Prevention Program for Elderly Abuse Cases (ReSPPEC) in San Carlos City for Region 1. Violence against the elderly is defined as any elderly subjected to harmful behavior often inflicted by people who were entrusted to care for them, which continue reading : DSWD’s ReSPPEC sets in place actions on elderly abuse

Two words into her sentence, her tears started to stream down her face when asked how it feels to be a Cum Laude. Unable to speak because of overwhelming emotions, her equally tearful mother decided to jump in to narrate her daughter’s experiences in the past few years of trials, difficulties, and victories. “Worth it!” continue reading : Cheers not tears for better fortune

  Time to break the ground! After 16 years of waiting, the construction of the new building of Area I Vocational Rehabilitation Center (AVRC I) of the Department of Social Welfare and Development – Field Office I (DSWD-FO1) has already started. A groundbreaking ceremony was held on 6 April 2016 headed by DSWD-FO1 Dir. Marcelo continue reading : AVRC I holds groundbreaking ceremony

“This pride is for my family who inspires me to fight all the way. They are always with me in every battle,” Melody Baided said with evident confidence. With her guiding principle, Philippians 3:14 “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me,” she always has the courage to fight and overcome the challenges continue reading : Conqueror arises from struggles

During the series of Civil Society Organization (CSO)-Led Fora, the Department of Social Welfare and Development Field Office 1 (DSWD FO1) announced that the Senate’s Social Welfare Justice and Rural Development Committee already signed the Committee Report on 08 March 2016. The said CCT Bill should be signed and approved by the President on or continue reading : CCT Bill now ready for second hearing at the Senate

Kapit-Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan Comprehensive and Integrated Delivery of Social Services National Community-Driven Development Program (Kalahi-CIDSS NCDDP) organized a Press Conference to introduce the Program to its media partners. The recently conducted Press Conference was held right after a hand-over and ribbon-cutting ceremony in Burgos, Pangasinan. The media partners were invited to witness and cover continue reading : Kalahi-CIDSS acquaints with the media

DSWD Field Office I sponsored the first Adoption Congress and series of advocacy activities promoting legal adoption. As emphasized by Dir. Marcelo Nicomedes J. Castillo during the Adoption Congress, the event was a good venue to share opinions, experiences, and solicit advice on unresolved concerns in the process of adoption. The adoptive parents were described continue reading : To adoptive parents: thank you for giving life to these children – Dir. Castillo

James Daryll C. Rey, 12, a Pantawid Pamilya beneficiary from Brgy. Nagyubuyuban, City of San Fernando, La Union was declared as one of Young Earth Ambassadors chosen by the Kids-to-Forest Region 1 Technical Woking Group composed of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR-1), Don Mariano Marcos Memorial State University (DMMMSU), Department of Education continue reading : Young Earth Ambassador is a Pantawid Pamilya Beneficiary