Department of Social Welfare

January
01　　The Department of Social Welfare, Taipei City Government implemented “Friendly Childcare Subsidy” with concepts of stagnant pricing, fair trade, cooperation with excellence and value-added subsidy along, in combination with the quality assurance assessment mechanism, and integrated with childcare centers and registered babysitters from private sector to make sure public childcare service is sufficient to meet demand.
March
25　　The Department of Social Welfare, Taipei City Government and private sector developed “Victim Identification App” and “Bifrost System”. The systems were tested in the Taipei-New Taipei-Taoyuan disaster prevention and response exercise. It isa pioneer system nation-wide.
May
21　　The Department of Social Welfare, Taipei City Government implemented the “Mechanism to Share out the Units of Public Housing Between the Minority Groups”. With the spirit of citizen deliberation, the first forum widely collected opinions from the public.
July
25　　The Taipei City Center for Prevention of Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault established “Gentleman Service Center”, providing a male consultation service, training courses and groups to assist men to handle problems properly. The center is the first nationwide.
August
02　　The Department of Social Welfare, Taipei City Government opened “Zhongzheng Senior Day-care Center”, reaching the goal open one senior day-care center per district.
30　　The Department of Social Welfare, Taipei City Government conducted “2016 Elders Festival- Senior citizens LOHAS and service upgrade”. The cash gifts for Double Nine Festival were used on sustainable welfare development, district care serviceand elder community participation in response to aged society.
October
21　　The Department of Social Welfare, Taipei City Government held the first nation-wide “Community Integration and Caring Service Project Opening”, set up community integrated caring service stations and trans-disciplinary teams to tailor personal care plan for elders.