BUTUAN CITY – The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Field Office Caraga sent a team who will help conduct the Critical Incident Stress Debriefing (CISD) sessions with victims of disaster in Region 10 yesterday, December 26, 2011. The team is composed of social workers and psychologist who have been conducting debriefing sessions. According to continue reading : DSWD Caraga deploys team to CDO

BUTUAN CITY – The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Caraga Office and the local government unit (LGU) of Magallanes, Agusan del Norte inaugurated 25 units of core shelter built in Barangay Caloc-an in December 2011. These core shelter units are built through DSWD’s Core Shelter Assistance Program or CSAP.  This is a rehabilitation program continue reading : DSWD, LGU inaugurate 25 core shelter units

BUTUAN CITY – The Department of Social Welfare and Development’s Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program will cover the last three local government units (LGUs) in Caraga region by 2012, namely; Nasipit and Magallanes in Agusan del Norte and Bislig City in Surigao del Sur. With this recent development Caraga DSWD Director Mercedita P. Jabagat led the orientations continue reading : Pantawid Pamilya covers remaining three LGUs in Caraga

PROSPERIDAD, AGUSAN DEL SUR – In her testimony during the Convergence Caravan in Agusan del Sur on November 25, 2011, Jeeva Mae T. Roluna, 12 years old, shared her dream of becoming a lawyer.  As a graduating elementary student of Bayugan 2 National Integrated School, San Francisco, Agusan del Sur, she is a candidate for valedictorian continue reading : A young girl finds hope in Pantawid Pamilya

BUTUAN CITY – The Self-Employment Assistance-Kaunlaran (SEA-K) Program funded seven (7) more associations in Agusan del Sur.  In the recently held convergence caravan in Patin-ay, Prosperidad, the Self-Employment Assistance Kaunlaran Associations or SKAs received a total P945, 000. DSWD director for the Caraga region, Mercedita P. Jabagat and Congresswoman Evelyn Plaza Mellana distributed the checks to continue reading : SEA-K funds new associations

BUTUAN CITY – The Policy Development and Planning Bureau of DSWD Central Office has conducted nationwide orientations on the Department’s Major Final Output Reporting and Management System or DMFORMS to field offices. In the Caraga region, the orientation happened in October 2011 in one of Butuan’s hotels. The orientation provided the focal persons of different programs, continue reading : Field offices oriented on DMFORMS