Welfare

Our Mission is to make the disadvantaged, partners in national development by providing conducive environment and opportunities through policy initiatives in Social Welfare & Social Development.

Department of Social Services

Encourage participation of the disadvantaged and suffering social groups in social development, by providing relief and rehabilitation and creating a background to prevent them falling into such conditions

Conductiing early intervention programmes for the disabled children
Development of vocational skills of the persons with disabilities and provision of job placement services
Relieving persons affected by disasters
Relieving persons affected by drugs and integrate them into sociaty as a drug free, self relieance force
Up grading knowledge of personnal providing services for te disadavantaged persons

National Programme on Community Based Rehabilitation (C B R )

Rehabilitation of persons with disabilities to enable them to enjoy their rights and to assume responsibilities and perform their duties. Provision of opportunities through social development programme for social integration and to have equal opportunities.

National Counselling Division

Our mission is to obtain contribution of all citizens in Sri Lanka to the national development by improving mental health through counselling services, awareness, leaderships, co-ordination, preventing of mental imbalances and individual personality development by using psychological methodologies

Activities

Preparation of a legal framework for proper psychological Counselling services at national level. Conducting of Counselling services for persons with special needs, Families and groups.
Making people aware of improving mental health and to conduct Counselling clinics at community level.
Training of Counsellors and developing their vocational skills to improve quality of the Counslling service.
Commemoration of National Counselling Services Day, co-ordination of government and NGO's concurrently with the International mental health week.
Co-ordination of activities of the ministry with government, NGO and private sector institutions and and professionals in the Counselling held to make Counselling services more effective and productive.
Construction of Counselling Centers to improve the quality of Counselling services

Progress at the end of December 2006 is classified as follows

Functions Physical Progress Financial Progress(Rs.Mn.) No. of Beneficiaries
Psycho-social Programmed ( National level)
22
0.314
2733
Awareness Workshops
      National Level
      Divisional Level
39
231
0.709
1.206
8884
14652
Counselling Clinics
      National Level
      Divisional Level
12
421
0.082
0.380
2391
12376
Training and Vocational Development Workshop for Counsellors
4
0.884
71
Training Programmed on Counselling for Divisional Secretary
2
0.229
39
Provision of Furniture for Counselling rooms
7
0.068
-
Construction - Counselling Centers
                   Counselling rooms
5
7
1.500
-
Counselling Day Function - '' Mathata thitha '' Art and Essay Competition (schools)
-
0.496
-

National Institute of social development (NISD)

Provide trained manpower for the leadership in the efforts of social development and assist in the formulation of nation social policy

Advice the minister regarding plans, programmes and activities for the development of social work and social development education
conduct undergraduate programmes and postgraduate course in social work and social development programmes.
Conduct and promote studies on social welfare system and social development programmes
Initiate and promote innovative practices in social work and the social development education system, including adaption of technology
Provide for the development of professional and managerial competence of personal in the social welfare system
Make available to the Government and other approved organizations, specialist services in social work and social development

National Secretariat for Elders

Encourage participation of older persons in social development and to ensure their Independence, Care, Participation, Self-fulfullment and Dignity. Also to protect the right f elders through awareness programmes

Protection of rights of elders
Raising awareness among the general public on the issues of population ageing
Provision of welfare services for the elders
Registration of sociaties of elderly persons
Conducting survays

National Secretariat for Non Governmental Organizations

To mobilize and coordinate with NGOs with the national policies and amke them to contribute as partners in development

Co-ordination of the implimentation programmes of government and non-government agencies for the achievement of national objectives.
Liaison with donor agencies with a view to providing financial contribution forNGO
To provide free and liberal environment for NGOs to work in sri lanka ub socio-economic development sectors
To strengthen the institutional capacity of the development oriented NGOo in Sri Lanka
To maintain a data base of NGOo and donor agencies
To strengthen the cooperation between the government and NGOo
To mobilize and make use of the NGOo in socio economic development in sri lanka
To facilitate the NGOo to implement their projects/programmes in Sri Lanka through the government administrative network.

Log on to NGO Secretariat

National Secretariat for Persons with Disabilities

to ensure promotion, advancement and protection of rights of persons with disabilities through guidance, support coordination, implementation and monitoring of development activities.

Social Security Board

To provide leadership and initive to the self employed persons and those employed in the informal sectors to enhance their socio-economic conditions and thereby make them contribute to the social development

Provision of pension for self employed persons wen they become elders
Paying a compensation and pension after a total or partial disablement
Provision of the economic concessions after death of a person for the dependents of the family
Necessary assistance to develop carrier
Provision of assistance to start self employment for the youth and assistance to improve their skills
Awareness on resource management and thrift
Upliftmwent of the lving condition of self emplyed persons

The National Committee on Social Development (NCSD)

The objective of the National Steering Committee on Social Development is to achieve the social development targets set out in the Agenda for Action on Social Development approved by ESCAP.