Suwon Community Welfare Council Holds First 2025 Representative Council Meeting

[Suwon Ilbo=Reporter Jung Jun-sung] The Suwon Community Welfare Council held its first 2025 representative council meeting on the 25th at the City Hall conference room and reviewed the 'draft evaluation of 2024 implementation results of the 5th Regional Community Welfare Plan.'

The Suwon Community Welfare Council pursued 58 detailed projects last year based on two major strategic systems including the 'local government social welfare business strategic system' and 'regional community welfare development strategic system,' and 10 key promotion strategies.

The detailed projects include △early detection of developmental disabilities and case management for households in crisis △improvement and strengthening of support for worker welfare △provision of village gathering spaces (emergency temporary housing) for households facing housing crises △support for victims of dating violence and stalking △establishment of a welfare resource sharing system enabling linkage and support of social care services △systemization and advancement of regional community welfare plan monitoring, and others.

This year, the council plans to pursue projects including △establishing the 2030 vision △producing commemorative white papers for the 20th anniversary △social welfare policy forums △city, district, and neighborhood connection sharing meetings △composition of the 11th city council △network organizational diagnosis △support for activation of district-neighborhood councils △the 6th regional community welfare survey △discovery of major policy issues by sector, and others.

The Welfare Council appointed Kim Deok-won, president of Gyeonggi Provincial Medical Center Suwon Hospital, and Byun Gyeong-sook, director of Beodnae Elderly Welfare Center, as new members.

The meeting was attended by 26 members including Lee Jong-sung, director of the Suwon Senior Club and co-chair of the 10th representative council's private sector.

Meanwhile, the representative council of the Community Welfare Council serves as a public-private cooperation (governance) organization for linkage and cooperation with related local institutions, corporations, organizations, and facilities that provide services related to social welfare, and plays a role in deliberating and discussing the city's regional community welfare plan.

The 10th representative council is composed of co-chairs including Lee Jae-joon, Mayor of Suwon (ex officio), Lee Jong-sung, director of the Suwon Senior Club, city officials, city council members, citizen representatives, and related personnel from social welfare facilities and public social welfare institutions—members with rich experience and expertise in the social welfare sector.

A city official stated, "The Community Welfare Council has worked since 2005 to ensure that citizens' voices are reflected in all areas of Suwon's social welfare," and added, "In the process of establishing the 2030 vision, we will incorporate citizen opinions and present the direction for Suwon's community welfare to advance."