Sanming: Social workers ignite the “light” of warmth

Social workers are like a ray of light, bringing strength to those in need, direction to the lost, hope to the helpless, and dreams to the troubled. They are active at the grassroots level and serve the people wholeheartedly with their professional concepts, skills and abilities.

The team of social workers continues to grow

Social workers are an important part of the social safety valve mechanism and play an important role in alleviating social conflicts and contradictions and maintaining social stability and healthy operation.

Simply put, it is to provide professional services and support to individuals, families, groups, and communities in difficulty, or to integrate social resources through professional services, tap potential, and promote self-rescue, self-reliance, and self-help for people in need. Self-improvement. Its service targets include the elderly, children, women, disabled people and other groups. Over the past ten years, the total number of social work professionals in my country has continued to grow, the structure has continued to be optimized, and the quality has steadily improved. They have played an important professional role in many fields such as assistance to needy groups, grassroots governance, child protection, elderly care services, poverty alleviation, and rural revitalization.

Recently, the Fujian Provincial Department of Civil Affairs issued the "Notice on Determining the List of the Third Batch of Provincial Social Work Professional Talent Bases", and the Sanming Social Work Association was identified as the third batch of social work professional talent bases (provincial Level Cross-Strait Social Work Professional Talent Base), received a one-time funding support of 100,000 yuan.

?Since 2013, some social work organizations have been established in our city, but the development was relatively slow in the first few years. In recent years, with the support of provincial policies and funds, the city’s social work undertakings have gradually developed Nowadays, every town (street) has a social work station. ?Pan Yu, head of the Municipal Social Workers Association said.

In recent years, Sanming City has taken the opportunity of building township (subdistrict) social work service stations to further work on talent cultivation, management mechanisms, and service guarantees, and explore ways to strengthen the township (subdistrict) social work talent team. Construction of "Sanming Path". At present, the city has 51 social work agencies, 141 township (street) social work stations, and more than 300 full-time social workers. Social workers regularly visit every household in need and special groups, and establish one person, one file, one household, one policy. According to the needs of the people, Start social work services in a timely manner to ensure full coverage of people's livelihood services.

Help people help themselves with care

Helping people to help themselves is also a delicate job for social workers, which requires care, patience and love from social workers. Xiaozhao (pseudonym) is a de facto orphan. His mother divorced his father when he was a child, and they have no contact with him since. He has been living with his father. Later, his father served a sentence for a crime, and he had no one to take care of him, so he moved into Hua En when he was only in the first grade. Learn and live in the children's village. The children's village is closed during the winter and summer vacations. Someone needs to take the child out to take care of his life during the winter and summer vacations and care about his mental health.

In order to find a loving family for his children, social worker Lin Chen came into contact with Xiao Zhao for the first time. When he first met Xiao Zhao, he was carrying a big blue schoolbag and a large trolley suitcase. Have to be taciturn. ?Lin Chen recalled that Xiao Zhao was very smart and had good grades, but he seemed very unsociable when getting along with his classmates, and even fought and spit. When chatting with him, he found that he had to first answer questions from the social worker every time. I thought about it for a long time, as if I was worried that I would say the wrong thing. During the following winter and summer vacations, Xiaozhao lived in two caring families and felt the warmth from the family. Even if his behavior habits deviated during this period, he made adjustments with the care and encouragement of the Children's Village and social workers.

In order to get to know the child closely, when the new summer vacation came, Lin Chen took Xiao Zhao back to his home and took care of his daily life. After an adaptation period, Xiaozhao began to show his own nature. He liked watching TV and disliked doing homework, and his life began to become irregular. Lin Chen communicated with him on the one hand, and urged him to observe some disciplines on the other. After getting acquainted with Lin Chen and his family, Xiao Zhao expressed that he missed his father and was unwilling to live in the children's village. He hated getting up on time every day, eating the same thing, and following the same rules. ?From a child psychology perspective, a long-term repressed life needs a channel for release. ?Lin Chen said that he no longer had any more restraints on him. He would often take him out to eat, play with the things he liked, vent his emotions, and let him participate in summer camps to cultivate the child's normal interpersonal skills.

The summer vacation passed in a blink of an eye, and when it was time to say goodbye, Lin Chen and Xiao Zhao had an in-depth communication and evaluated his behavior, including praise, encouragement, and advice. Before leaving, Xiaozhao couldn't help but shed tears. The grievances of long-term excessive depression and lack of family members were vented at that moment. Returning to the Children's Village again, his performance improved significantly. ?When family care is lacking, children will develop various psychological problems. In order for them to grow up healthily in the future and not go astray, society needs to pay more attention to these children and require more professional intervention. Lin Chen said.

For those in need of help, social workers are like a beam of light that shines into life, infecting those who want to pursue warmth, and spreading the hearts of the recipients with a positive and optimistic attitude. of haze.

Professionalism helps social workers grow

In recent years, the social work industry has received more recognition from society, and more and more people have begun to understand this industry. In order to innovatively cultivate and build a social work team, Sanming City has included the training of social work talents in the "Sanming City Implementation of the New Era Talent Strengthening City Strategy Promotion? 2+3+N" Talent Special Action Plan. Social work talents and rural revitalization talents enjoy the same treatment, and Implement the "Shaxi Partner" social work talent promotion project and select a group of outstanding social work cases, outstanding township (street) social work stations, and outstanding supervisory talents.

The city actively encourages people from society to participate in the social work professional qualification examination. Datian, Shaxian, Sanyuan and other places have introduced incentive measures to provide 1,000 RMB to those who obtain the assistant social worker qualification certificate and the social worker qualification certificate respectively. -3,000 yuan in rewards of varying degrees. The civil affairs departments of each county also provide free pre-examination consultation and pre-examination training to candidates every year to create a strong examination atmosphere. The city has a total of 2,966 social work professionals, more than 1,380 certified social workers, and 2 people have been selected as provincial-level outstanding social workers.

At the same time, Sanming City takes advantage of its regional advantages to carry out "Fujian-Taiwan cooperation" with Taiwanese social workers to achieve the integrated development of social work on both sides of the Taiwan Strait; it also innovatively implements "Mountain-Sea Cooperation" university cooperation between Sanming and Fuzhou, Xiamen, Changsha and other places. ?Project, starting from the development of full-time social workers in social work institutions, promoting the transformation of township pension assistance assistants, and carrying out social recruitment, we will improve the social worker training mechanism, innovate the ?social work + charity + volunteer? service model, and guide various social forces to invest approximately 120 million yuan. , benefiting 42,000 needy people. During the epidemic alone, more than 6,200 social worker volunteer services were carried out, and more than 27 million yuan in donated funds were linked.