Cognitive screening, stranded individuals realizing their dreams of returning home Exhibition of a batch of excellent volunteer service brand projects in Shanghai
Cognitive disorders are plaguing many families. The Shanghai Love Cutting Public Welfare Development Center has launched the "Memory Watcher" community professional volunteer service project in Shanghai, forming an interdisciplinary professional volunteer service team. Over the past decade, the team has honed its skills and has gone deep into more than 200 communities in the city to provide volunteer services such as brain health science popularization, risk screening, and assessment for community leaders aged 55 and above.
In Shanghai, there are many similar volunteer service brand projects in the field of civil affairs. On the morning of September 8, as one of the series of theme activities of "Shanghai Charity Week" in 2023, "Five Societies Linkage, One Heart for Good" - the promotion and exhibition activity of volunteer service brand projects in the field of civil affairs was held in Xintiandi Park of Shanghai Public Welfare. Eight excellent volunteer services from the field of civil affairs were showcased in a concentrated manner, sharing their brand stories, philanthropic aspirations, and volunteer visions.
The volunteer service projects showcased in this promotion highlight the "five social linkage", focusing on social assistance, elderly care and disability assistance, child welfare, community governance, marriage and funeral, and other civil affairs fields. Based on the needs of special groups such as the elderly, children, and the disabled, volunteer service activities are designed and developed and continuously implemented.
The Shanghai Children's Welfare Institute has established a volunteer service team consisting of abandoned children aged 14-18 within the institution, carrying out the "Heart Volunteer" volunteer service project for abandoned children, encouraging them to serve society, care for and help others, help others self help, enjoy themselves, and transmit positive energy of love and hope, and gain growth in public welfare services.
Fushou Garden has collaborated with internal and external volunteer service forces such as universities, research institutes, and public welfare institutions to organize and implement the social popularization and promotion of "two education and one care" since 2018. This not only extends life terminal services to elderly care and humanistic care, but also strengthens red education and life education, providing new value to society.
The "Love Accompanying" volunteer service team at the Shanghai Rescue Management Second Station introduces companionship volunteer services for beneficiaries who have been stranded for a long time due to various reasons, helping them restore their social functions, regain their confidence in life, and lay the foundation for their return to society and realization of their dream of returning home.
The Fourth Social Welfare Institute of Shanghai cultivates the volunteer service brand "Gongyi Cooperative", integrates resources from surrounding universities, communities, enterprises, etc., and establishes connections and cooperation with more than 60 enterprises, institutions, and social organizations, making its members "Sixi Maruki" enthusiastic volunteers who respect and love the elderly.
These volunteer projects have basically established a working mechanism of professional social workers and volunteers, most of which involve professional social organizations and focus on linking various social resources. Some projects have received support from foundations or caring enterprises, forming a good operating model. As the administrative management department of volunteer services, the civil affairs department has established long-term mechanisms in volunteer recruitment, volunteer service information recording, volunteer rights protection, etc., promoting the standardized development and benign promotion of projects in actual operation.
Next, the municipal and district civil affairs departments will continue to deepen the exploration, cultivation, and selection of volunteer service projects, further expand the influence of volunteer service brand projects in the field of civil affairs, deepen the "five social linkage" mechanism, form a demonstration and leading effect, create a strong atmosphere of voluntary service in the whole society, and promote the high-quality development of Shanghai's charity and volunteer services.