The Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (Panatwid Pamilya) Regional Program Management Office (RPMO) gave recognition to exemplary performance of Pantawid Pamilya Provincial Operations Offices down to staff individual performances were given recognition by the Regional Program Management Office (RPMO) of the Department of Social Welfare and Development Field Office 8 during the 2012 Year End Program continue reading : Pantawid Pamilya RPMO Awards Exemplary Performers

The DSWD Regional Rehabilitation Center for Youth or RRCY will open its door tomorrow, March 1, for the public to watch the U.S. Navy Seventh Fleet Band conduct a master class for the 62 residents of this Center. The visit will give the Children-in-Conflict-with-Law (CICL) residing at the Center a rare opportunity to interact with continue reading : DSWD REHAB CENTER OPENS DOOR TO PUBLIC; INVITES EVERYONE TO WATCH U.S. NAVY SEVENTH FLEET PERFORM

A total of Php 26,798,000.00 in capital assistance, under the Sustainable Livelihood Program (SLP) of the Department, was released in year 2012 for Region Eight, reported Hermanito Mangalao, the Regional Project Development Officer of the DSWD Field Office Eight. Eighty percent of the total 2,757 recipients, or 2,223 are beneficiaries of sets one and two continue reading : MORE THAN PHP26 M IN SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOOD PROGRAM FUNDS RELEASED FOR REGION VIII IN 2012

“It is a home which operates with love and compassion,” Head Social Worker Marcela Lim of the Regional Rehabilitation Center for Youth (RRCY) at Barangay Sto. Niño in Tanauan, Leyte said of the DSWD facility which marked its 12th year anniversary last February 14 of this year. In said occasion saw the launching of a continue reading : TANAUAN BRINGS COMPUTER LITERACY FROM THE BARRIOS TO DSWD REHAB CENTER

Social workers heading the DSWD’s Home for Girls and the Reception and Study Center for Children (RSCC) bared in a recent interview that child sexual abuse still ranks among the highest or is a common case among residents of their respective facilities. The two Center Heads reported this, in the light of the recent observance continue reading : SEXUAL ABUSE : A COMMON CASE AMONG CHILDREN SEEKING REFUGE IN DSWD CENTERS

No more threats. No more Epal. These are the main thrusts of Bawal Ang Epal Dito Campaign of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) to be launched from January to May 2013 to protect the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program, from undue politicking and interventions that may affect the program’s integrity. Dswd Regional Director continue reading : DSWD Says No to Epal and Yes to Empowering Pantawid Pamilya Beneficiaries

The Department of Social Welfare and Development Field Office 8 awarded three partners from non-government organizations (NGO) and local government units, who significantly provided successful social protection programs to marginalized and vulnerable sectors of the region during the culmination night of the department’s 62nd anniversary celebration last February 6, 2013, at the Leyte Park Hotel, continue reading : DSWD 8 Awards Partners