A study on the Policy Suggestion for Re-establishment of Health Family Support Centers - focused to Gyeonggi-do -

건강가정지원센터 위상 재정립을 위한 정책 제안 연구 -경기도를 중심으로-

  • Kim, Sung-Hee (Deft. of Social Welfare, Yeojoo Institute of Technology) ;
  • Yang, Jung-Sun (Family/Child Care/Youth Research Department, Gyeonggido Family & Women's Research Institute)
  • Received : 2011.10.01
  • Accepted : 2011.11.11
  • Published : 2011.11.30

Abstract

This study suggests policies to rearrange the status of Health Family Support Centers, targeting hands-on workers and centering on collected problems and improvements. To attain this aim, the study rearranged the materials investigated in 2009. On this basis, the study suggests the following policies. First, Health Family Support Centers changed into Korean Institute Healthy family which could prepare a means for opinion convergence through base organizations. Thus, it is necessary to establish a Gyeonggi-do wide area Health Family Support Center. Second, space and human resource arrangement, suitable to business, are necessary, and so are stable, secure finances. Third, urban areas, agricultural villages, and fishing villages are distributed across Gyeonggi-do. Thus, the development of specialized business, suitable to Gyeonggi-do, is necessary. Consequently, this study suggests executing obligatory family education (education for engaged couples, education for parents). Fourth, case management models, unique to Health Family Support Centers, have to be developed, as well as unified services related to education, counseling, and cultural businesses. Fifth, the Health Family Support Center has to secure its own status as a hub organization of inter-regional family businesses, has to strengthen its organizational identity, and has to promote suitable business development.

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