The Adoption and Resource Referral Section (ARRS) of the Department of Social Welfare and Development Field Office 02 (DSWD FO2) will hold a series of activities in line with the Adoption Consciousness Month Celebration this February. The celebration with the theme “Pagmamahal Palaganapin, Legal na Pag-aampon Ating Gawin!” aims to promote legal adoption as a continue reading : DSWD FO2 Holds Adoption Consciousness Month Celebration

With the aim of improving efficiency in the delivery of services during disaster response situations, the Cagayan Valley Regional Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (CVRDRRMC) steered the approval of the first Cagayan Valley Regional Disaster Response Plan (CVRDRP) on February 2, 2018 at Hotel Carmelita, Tuguegarao City. The CVRDRP, which was operationalized as a continue reading : DSWD FO2 Leads Approval of Cagayan Valley Regional Disaster Response Plan

  The Isabela School of Arts and Trades (ISAT) in Ilagan City, Isabela awarded certificate of completion to 447 Pantawid Pamilya beneficiaries under DSWD FO2’s Sustainable Livelihood Program (SLP) last February 01, 2018. The graduates, who come from 16 municipalities across 3 districts in the Province of Isabela, were presented with their certificates for different continue reading : 447 SLP Skills Training Participants conferred Graduation Certificates

A workshop for Shielded Metal Arc Welding was launched by the Sustainable Livelihood Program (SLP) of DSWD FO2 last April 4, 2016 to 48 out-of-school Pantawid Pamilya beneficiaries in the Region. The participants were enrolled to the Cagayan Valley Maritime Studies, Inc., a TESDA accredited school based in Solano, Nueva Vizcaya, where they will need continue reading : SLP FO2 Conducts Shielded Metal Arc Workshop for Pantawid Pamilya Beneficiaries

An orientation for employment facilitation was conducted on April 21, 2016 by the Sustainable Livelihood Program of DSWD FO2 to 113 Pantawid Pamilya beneficiaries in the municipality of Roxas, Isabela. The said orientation, in partnership with Unitas, was done to inform the beneficiaries about job offerings in Magnolia Dressing Plant, which currently have various vacancies continue reading : Orientation on Employment Facilitation Conducted in Roxas, Isabela

The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) releases today the profile of targeted poor families based on the result of the LISTAHANAN second round of assessment implemented in 2015. The second assessment, which covered 15.1 million households, identified 5.1 million targeted poor households nationwide. This latter figure translates to 5.5 million targeted poor families continue reading : DSWD launches results of the 2nd nationwide assessment

The recent second round of household assessment for Listahanan or the National Household Targeting System for Poverty Reduction (NHTS-PR) of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) showed that a total 1,511,320 beneficiaries of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program have improved their status to “non-poor”. This figure represents a large percentage (36%) of the continue reading : DSWD’s Listahanan identifies 1.5-M Pantawid Pamilya families lifted from poverty

  There is never a feeling as dreadful as being in a place ridden by opposing forces whose singular focus is on eliminating the people on the opposing side with any means necessary. Surviving such a situation gets more difficult when you have to battle your fears along with your aim of staying alive. The continue reading : Work in Times of War

With the on-demand application (ODA) part of the 2nd round of household assessment coming to a close, DSWD FO2 is now getting ready for the next step that needs to be completed, the encoding of the accomplished Family Assessment Forms (FAFs). “Na-prepare na natin lahat ng kailangan natin para sa encoding ng mga FAFs, handing-handa continue reading : Encoding of Family Assessment Forms from Validation Phase to Start Soon