Conducting training to strengthen the capacity of neighborhood watchers to identify crisis households

Sinpo-dong, Jung-gu, Incheon Metropolitan City (Director Seo Yeon-sook) announced that on the 21st, it conducted capacity building training for ‘Neighborhood Guardians’, a human safety net, in the conference room on the 2nd floor of the Administrative Welfare Center.

The Neighborhood Watch is an organization comprised of local residents, members of the local community welfare council, and village chiefs, and is responsible for discovering and supporting households in crisis. This training focused on contents that are practically helpful for the Neighborhood Watch activities, such as ▲ identifying signs of crisis households, ▲ precautions when working such as protecting personal information, and ▲ sharing cases of discovery.

Through the active activities of the neighborhood watch, Shinpo-dong has achieved great results, such as confirming the hospitalization of elderly people who have been away from home for a long time and discovering needy neighbors who are in blind spots of welfare. In particular, even for those who receive public benefits, they are expanding practical support by providing additional support by linking private resources according to the crisis situation of each household.

Kim Hyeon-gi, the civilian committee chairperson of the Community Security Council, said, “We expect that this training will further activate neighborhood watch activities,” and added, “We will continue to pay attention to create a Sinpo-dong without socially isolated crisis households.”

[Korean Today] A scene from the training to strengthen the capacity of neighborhood watchers to identify crisis households © Reporter Kim Mi-hee

Seo Yeon-suk, the head of Sinpo-dong, said, “Thanks to the neighborhood watchers who work hard in both material and spiritual ways, I have met many welfare recipients who say, ‘I don’t want to move.’ I sincerely thank the residents who are working hard to make Sinpo-dong a good place to live.”

This training is expected to play an important role in helping Shinpo-dong residents eliminate blind spots in welfare and actively identify households in crisis.