Social Affairs Bureau of Kaohsiung City Government

- Strengthening child-protection - Providing disadvantaged children with opportunities for development - Schemes and guides the notification of early-intervention in development delay children - Offering safe and professional nursery services - Improving parental education - Integrating social resources to ensure children¡¦s welfare - Encouraging a harmonious parent-child relationship - Enhancing children¡¦s physical and mental health.

- Preventing youth sexual transactions - Enhancing family-centered protection - Establishing a counseling system for children from single parent families - Providing outreach care services for street youths - Promoting family values and fostering parent-child relationships - Combining social resources to carry out the "Wiping Out Poverty Programmed - Hope Project for the Second Generation of Low-Income Families" : providing youths with opportunities for development - Operating the "Juvenile Welfare Service Center": a recreation center where youths are encouraged to learn to help others and improve their physical and mental health.

- Tapping the human resources of the elderly and re-creating employment opportunities for senior citizens. - Strengthening senior citizens' concepts of self-management and self-protection - Establishing a property trust system for the elderly - Helping the elderly learn to plan a senior life and facilitating successful aging - Constructing a complete community network of senior welfare services to strengthen long-term care services for elderly people.

- Integrating in-home and respite care services - Increasing service projects of human resource investment - Helping the physically disabled individuals and groups develop marketing abilities and high-quality products - Integrating social resources to set up publicly-owned but privately-run welfare stations - Planning orientating welfare projects and activities for all categories of disabled citizens to improve life quality - Empowering the physically disabled and promoting full care services.

Researching and developing women's welfare projects and creating work opportunities for women to maintain economic security -Enhancing women's self-protection and improving counseling services and psychological treatment for offenders -Empowering disadvantaged women and establishing networks of mutual care and assistance -Promoting marital, family, parenting, and vocational education to facilitate women's participation in public affairs -Promoting practical education for disadvantaged women and Chinese or foreign spouses and eliminating cultural discrimination against "the weaker sex" -Expanding and empowering women's groups and promoting career development.

- Examining the current relief systems and welfare measures for low-income families: to integrate allowance- and subsidy-granting methods - Improving working welfare services for low-income families: to help them earn their livings - Establishing a care service network for low-income families to enhance their problem-solving ability - Continuing to promote the programme of the "Hope Project for the Second Generation of Low-Income Families" - Being attentive to homeless people and providing them with diverse services.

- Fully utilizing human resources and expanding volunteer services - Promoting the integration of community resources, and expanding the cooperation network - Establishing a participation mechanism and constructing communication platforms for community residents - Creating the new metropolitan feature of "Various communities, Numerous styles" - Organising local NPOs and cultivating community talents - Inspiring communities to develop their unique features and implementing social welfare policies in every community.