Gwonseon-gu Provides Outreach Self-Reliance Counseling for Low-Income Families

[Suwon Ilbo=Reporter Seo Dong-young] Gwonseon-gu, Suwon held "outreach self-reliance counseling" from the 19th to the 21st at three administrative welfare centers including Seodun-dong to identify low-income and vulnerable employment groups and assist them in self-reliance.

The outreach self-reliance counseling program operates self-reliance (job) and financial counseling as well as customized employment support programs to build self-reliance capacity, provide skills training and employment opportunities, and establish an economic self-sufficiency foundation, while also promoting living stability for low-income families.

The district signed a memorandum of understanding with the Suwon Regional Self-Reliance Center in 2014 and has deployed professional counselors to visit 12 administrative welfare centers in the district on a rotating basis (three times per month). In May, the district visited Seodun-dong (19th), Guun-dong (20th), and Ipbuk-dong (21st) to provide customized employment counseling and job information to existing low-income families (96 people) and vulnerable employment groups.

Yoon Young-sook, director of the Social Welfare Division of Gwonseon-gu, stated, "As of the 21st, we have conducted nine rounds of outreach self-reliance counseling and achieved results through 17 promotional activities by successfully placing eight people into jobs through the Suwon Regional Self-Reliance Center," adding, "We plan to continue counseling in the future."