Department of Social Welfare

A. Humanity:

To respect, empathize with, and accept the residents in need, assisting them in making ends meet, while strengthening their self- esteem and achieving self-realization.

B. Priority of the Disadvantaged:

To prioritize social services in favor of the most disadvantaged

C. Family Orientation:

To focus on the family as the core of all welfare issues, and to promote "healthy families" as the best solution to social concerns

D. Service Integration:

To upgrade the quantity and quality of social service provision by coordinating resources from the industrial sector, academia, government, public and private service agencies and corporations to provide a well-rounded, continuous, efficient and multi-disciplinary service network

E. Citizen Participation:

To pool ideas from all sides, to improve communications between government and the people, and to install a grass-root participation mechanism in the policymaking process.