Kazenoko Community Welfare Projects
From “Kazenoko Letter” No.449 - June 2015
| Outside of our childcare activities, we have a project department called
Community Welfare. This is a relatively unknown department as we don’t
share information about it often, so I’ll talk a little about it now. The
“After School Care Program” at Kazenoko Jidokan is one of our projects,
run by the 5 or 6 staff members involved. We provide childcare for school-age
children. It’s mainly for graduates of our daycare center, and currently
we have 33 children enrolled in the program. We also run a “Child-raising Support Center” and provide various child-raising support activities every day mainly for infants aged 0 to 3 and the guardians who live in our community. We’ve provided this before, and it’s been received very well. People come from afar. Another pillar is the “After School Care Service for Children with Intellectual Disabilities”. This is therapeutic care for school-age children with intellectual disabilities (elementary and junior high school). We also provide individual care on Saturdays and during long vacations. Some children with intellectual disabilities stay with children without intellectual disabilities together at Kazenoko Jidokan. The local ward health center provides health checks for toddlers aged 18 months and 3 years, and those that fit the criteria are introduced to our “Class for Children with Language Developmental Delays”. We hold the class twice a week, and many people have high expectations of it. There is also a program called “Nature School”, targeted at regular elementary and junior high school children. It is a day-trip to our facility, “Tanba no Ie”, hiking and experiencing nature, 5 or 6 times a year. Everyone enjoys it, and some children who joined when they were first-grade students have continued this program until the upper grades. . We develop various activities as described above, and all are welfare activities aimed for children in our community. A daycare center’s role is to be connected to and supported by the community, and provide support that is needed. From that perspective, regular childcare for infants at a daycare center is no more than a part of community welfare activities for children in the community. There are still many child welfare problems in our community, so I hope that we can be of service. |
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Social Welfare Corporation SUISEN FUKUSHIKAI
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