SOCIAL WORK 221

• Programs and Services for abused and exploited women

  • Protection orders to prevent further abuse of women and children
  • Psychosocial intervention
  • Medical services including reproductive health services
  • Advocacy, information and education on women's rights
  • Temporary shelter for abused women
  • Legal assistance/services
  • Livelihood, educational / skills training
  • Parent Effectiveness services & family interventions
  • Gender and development activities training
• Laws related to Children

  • Republic Act 8552 : Domestic Adoption Act of 1998
  • Republic Act 7610: Child protection Act
  • RA 6972 : Barangay Level Total Development and protection of Children Act
  • Proclamation No.855 : The Philippine Plan of Action for Children (PPAC)
  • International Convention on the Rights of the Child
  • RA 7658: Prohibits the employment of children below 15 years of age in public and private undertakings
  • RA 8369: Family courts Act
  • RA 8239: Philippine Passport Act of 1996
  • RA 9208: Anti-Trafficking in Persons Act of 2003
  • RA 9344: Juvenile Justice System
  • RA 8043 (Inter-Country Adoption Act of 1995)
  • Republic Act 8043: The Inter-Country Adoption Act of 1995
• Programs and Services for Children and Youth


  • Adoption
  • Foster Care
  • Legal guardianship
  • Residential Care
  • Temporary custodial care and protection for street children
  • Advocacy: Intensified campaign for the rights of children
  • Creation of the Barangay Council for the Protection of Children
  • Early Childhood Development through day care services
  • Services for street children
• Programs and Services for Children in emergency situations

  • Health, medical & nutrition services
  • Prompt resumption of educational services for children
  • Establishment of child-friendly spaces
  • Family tracing and reunification for unaccompanied children and separated children
  • Promotion of child's rights
  • Child-centered training for all responders
  • Age – appropriate information on children's roles and responsibilities before during and after a disaster & emergency situations
• Programs and Services for abused, exploited and neglected children

  • Psychosocial interventions/counseling
  • Educational Assistance
  • Medical Intervention/assistance
  • Life Skills Training
  • Skills/Vocational Training
  • Residential care services/temporary shelter
  • Alternative care for children
  • Family counseling/parent effectiveness services
• Programs and Services for Child Labor

  • Sagip Mangagawa/rescue of Child Laborers
  • Temporary Shelter
  • Psychosocial intervention/Counseling
  • Educational Assistance
  • Skills/Vocational Training
  • Life Skills Training
  • Kabuhayan para sa magulang ng batang mangagawa
  • Parent effectiveness/family counseling
• Programs and Services to Children in Conflict with the Law (CICL) and Children at Risk

  • Primary intervention: poverty reduction programs, family development/enrichment, day care
  • Secondary intervention: residential care services, educational, life skills, vocational training, livelihood, etc.
  • Tertiary intervention: psychosocial, education, livelihood, diversion program
• RA 8042


  An act to institute the policies of overseas employment and establish a higher standard of protection and promotion of the welfare of migrant workers, their families and overseas Filipinos in distress
• Programs and Services for Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs)

  • A 24-hour information and assistance center by the DFA
  • Selective overseas employment promotion (higher wages-lower risks)
  • Social Security/Insurance Coverage
  • Health Care and Disability Assistance
  • Socio-psychological services to OFW in distress
  • Repatriation services whenever necessary
  • Prosecution of perpetrators of illegal recruitment
  • Pre-departure loan
  • Family assistance loan
  • Economic Welfare/Livelihood Assistance
  • Educational Assistance to deserving children OFW
  • Organizing Families/Spouses for Capability Building and other activities
  • Family Counseling
• Laws related to Disaster Response

  • PD 1566 : Strengthening the Philippine Disaster Control capability
  • RA 8185 : Allows LGU to declare a state of calamity and disburse the local calamity fund for disaster operation without waiting for presidential declaration
  • RA 5416 : Provides for comprehensive social services for individuals and groups in need of assistance, creating for this purpose a department of social welfare

  
• Programs and Services for Victims of Disasters

  • Disaster Relief
  • Search and Rescue
  • Emergency Shelter Assistance
  • Core Shelter Assistance Project (CSAP)
  • Crisis Intervention/Stress Debriefing
  • Disaster Management/Mitigation Preparedness
  • Capability Building
  • Balik Probinsiya
• Laws related to Urban Poor

  • RA 7279: Urban Development and Housing Act of 1992
  • RA 8368: Anti-Squatting Law Repeal Act of 1997
  • RA 8425: Social Reform and Poverty Alleviation Act
• Programs and Services for Urban Poor

  • Socialized/Low – Cost Housing
  • Alternative Livelihood Assistance and other income generating projects to augment family income
  • Skills Training/Capability : Building and Job Placement
  • Relocation /Resettlement
  • Employment opportunities
• Laws related to Older Persons/Senior Citizens

  • RA 7432: An act to maximize the contribution of senior citizens to nation building, grant benefits and special privileges
  • RA 7876: Senior Citizens Act of the Philippines
  • RA 9257: Expanded Citizens Act of 2003
  • RA 7641: Provided for retirement pay to qualified private sector workers in the absence of any retirement plan in the establishment
• Programs and Services for Older Persons/Senior Citizens

  • Substitute family care service for the elderly who have been separated from their own families
  • Residential care provides experiences for group living where the elderly get the opportunity to socialize and experience independent living
• Laws related to Farmers

  • RA 6657 or the Comprehensive Agrarian reform Law
  • RA 7607 – Magna Carta for Small Farmers
• Programs and Services for Farmers

  • CARP as provided above
  • Farm technology including provision of irrigation facilities
  • Promotion of sustainable/organic agriculture
  • Crop insurance
  • Credit and cooperative ventures
  • Organizing
  • Sustainable livelihood projects
  • Settlement of agrarian disputes
  • Infrastructures like farm to market roads
• Laws related to Fisherfolk

  • RA 8550 or the Fisheries Act of 1998
• Programs and Services for Fisherfolk


  • Organizing/federating for advocacy and mass action
  • Provision of more advanced fishing technology, tools and equipment
  • Alternative livelihood project
  • Coastal resource management
  • Prosecution of perpetrators of illegal fishing
• 1987 Philippine Constitution provides for the promotion of the rights of indigenous cultural communities within the framework of national development
• RA 8371 : Magna Carta for Indigenous People
• Programs and Services for Indigenous Peoples (IPs) are not very much except for the attempts of some NGOs to reach out to this group providing medical services, agricultural technology, organizing them to be more assertive of their rights, particularly the preservation of their ancestral domain and culture, educational assistance
• RA 8972


  Solo Parents' Welfare Act of 2000 : An act providing for benefits and privileges to solo parents and their children
• Programs and Services for Solo Parents


  • Educational services
  • Housing benefits
  • Medical/health services
  • Livelihood and skills/vocational training
  • Counseling
  • Parent Effectiveness Session
  • Critical Incident Stress Debriefing (CISD)
  • Psychosocial care sessions
  • Organization of solo parent association/support groups
• RA 9208


  Anti-Trafficking in Persons Act of 2003 : An act to institute policies to eliminate trafficking in persons especially women and children
• RA 10364


  Expanded Anti-Trafficking in Persons Act of 2012 : An act to institute policies to eliminate trafficking in persons especially women and children
• Programs and Services for Victims of Human Trafficking

  • Temporary shelter and basic needs provisions
  • Psychological support and other interventions
  • DSWD 24-hour call center for crisis calls and technology-based counseling and referral systems
  • Livelihood/skills vocational training
  • Family counseling and other interventions
  • Educational assistance
  • Conduct information campaign on trafficking in persons and adoption
• Programs and Services for People Living with HIV/AIDS (PLHIV/PLHWA)


  • Care and support for the PLHIV/PLHWA and their families
  • Medical assistance
  • Alternative parental care for affected and infected children
  • Livelihood assistance
  • Counseling and other psychosocial interventions
• The United Nations came into existence on October 24, 1945. At that time, it had 51 countries as Members. Currently, 193 countries are UN Members; the most recent to join was South Sudan in July 2011.
• The UN is an organization of sovereign states, which voluntarily join the UN to work for world peace. It is a forum, a meeting—place for virtually all nations of the world. It provides them with the mechanism to help find solutions to disputes or problems, and to act on virtually any matter of concern to humanity.
• PLHIV/PLHWA (People Living with HIV/AIDS)


  • Care and support for the PLHIV/PLHWA and their families
  • Medical assistance
  • Alternative parental care for affected and infected children
  • Livelihood assistance
  • Counseling and other psychosocial interventions
• United Nations (UN)


  An organization of sovereign states, which voluntarily join the UN to work for world peace. It is a forum, a meeting—place for virtually all nations of the world. It provides them with the mechanism to help find solutions to disputes or problems, and to act on virtually any matter of concern to humanity.
• Purpose of the United Nations as set forth in the charter

  • To maintain international peace and security
  • To develop friendly relation among nations based on respect and the principles of equal rights and self—determination of people and to take other appropriate measures to strengthen universal peace
  • To cooperate in solving international economic, social, cultural, and humanitarian problems and in promoting respect for human rights and fundamental freedom
  • To be a center for harmonizing the action of nation in attaining these common needs
• The Philippines seeks only peace and friendship with her neighbor and all countries of the world regardless of race, creed, ideology, and political system, on the basis of the mutual trust, respect and cooperation.
• The Philippines supports the rights of all nations, big and small, to equality, freedom, and justice, in their peaceful, settlement of international disputes and opposes the use of force, or the threat of force, in relation among nation.
• The constitution does not imply, however, that the Philippines is duty bound to extend diplomatic recognition to all nations.
• The Philippines is an active supporter of the United Nation's Peacekeeping and humanitarian development programs.
• Carlos P. Romulo became the first permanent representative of the Philippines to the United Nations
• In a report released by the United Nations in January 2013, the Philippines is the 30th largest contributor of peacekeepers with 730 Filipinos rendering service to the mission.
• The Philippines first contributed to the world body's peacekeeping operations when its air force sent a squadron to support the United Nations Operation in the Congo in 1963.