Tailored Support for Vulnerable Group of Children

• Provide tailored support to children living in child care facilities and group homes with borderline intelligence, in the areas of cognitive learning, emotional needs, socialization, self-reliance, and educate and manage involved instructors
• Arrange a professional therapy program for children living in child welfare facilities and group homes with emotional and behavioral difficulties
• Educate looked-after children aged above 15 and those who are subject to leave care, in the areas of residence, living, economy and finance, and career planning

Asset Formation Support

• Ensure residential stability of looked-after children subject to leave care by reducing economic burden and providing tailored support to case management
• Support children aging out of care to be financially independent by creating seed money through Didim Seed Account or commonly known as Child Development Account
  * It is a matching fund that the government (or local governments) deposits about 100,000 Korean won into a child’s account once his/her sponsor or a guardian makes a deposit.
• Appoint and educate children who aged out of care within 5 years to act as mentors of children plan to leave care, and support their regional meetings

Policy Support

• Inform new programs to child welfare workers exclusively dealing with their self-reliance, instructors, heads of facilities; provide guidelines (e.g., counselling,case management, resource linkage program) and offer therapy programs in responds to possible burnout
• Create a survey on looked-after children and those who aged out of care, conduct a research on proposing policy advice, develop and disseminate a work-manual on supporting self-reliance of a child, a handbook on the information of self-reliance and a statistical report
• Support the operation of the Council for Promotion of Support for Children's Self-Reliance and related meetings, promote the importance of supporting self-reliance of children aging out of care through a diverse channels of media