Pyeongtaek Welfare Town
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The Pyeongtaek campus was established in 1981 by Eastern Social Welfare Society. This facility provides services and programs for a diverse group including infants, toddlers, youth, disabled youth and adults from the city of Pyeongtaek and surrounding areas. There are five major support areas with a staff of 150 who serve the more than 370 clients. 

Jacobs Home - Care for abandoned infants and toddlers up to age 4. 
Esthers Home - A shelter for women.
Vocational Rehabilitation Center - Job training and workplace for adults with special needs. Businesses include a bakery, paper-cut factory and a shopping bag assembly center. Local businesses contract for specific work.    
Dongbang School - An elementary, middle and high school that provides an education for children with special needs.
Child Rehabilitation Center - Residential facility for children and young people with special needs.

Foster Care Assistance
The purpose of this grant is to address the daily needs of children in the care (foster care, babies home, etc.) of CHSFS two Korean partner agencies (Eastern Social Welfare Society and Social Welfare Society) and to ensure quality medical care via these agencies for all children until they are placed in their adoptive families.

Through Eastern Social Welfare Society (ESWS), there are currently over 330 children being cared for in foster families. For Social Welfare Society (SWS), this number is at over 450 children in care. The average foster family cares for a child for 7-9 months and will use disposable diapers for the duration of the child's care there. Since the implementation of new adoption laws in Korea in 2007, the time children are spending in foster care has increased dramatically. Accordingly, the supplies (solids as well as formula, the number of diapers, etc.) needed by the foster family in order to provide consistent quality of care are also increasing.

During the entire duration of the child's time in foster care, the child is brought in monthly to the agency's clinic for a physical and developmental check-up (well-baby check-up). Because children are in care longer, the facilities and equipment at these agency clinics are reaching capacity; some are wearing out. In other cases, there is not an adequate number of machines/testing equipment to meet the need and provide reliable results.  

 


Sharon's House
ESWS is seeking additional funding to support the general operations including pre and post-natal care and education. There are usually 10 residents at Gyeongbuk Sharon's House and 15-20 unwed mothers at Sharon's House in Seoul. The residents are single pregnant Korean women in their late teens and early twenties, who are in need of counseling and lodging during their pregnancies. In the case of a mother who has chosen to parent, she and her child are allowed to stay up to six months. After that time, ESWS assists her in transitioning to other (non-ESWS) social service facilities and/or housing.

For more information, contact Jane Lee at 651-255-2225 or jlee@chsfs.org

 with our On-Line Secure Donation form. Checks can be sent to Children's Home Society and Family Services,1605 Eustis Street, St. Paul, MN 55108. Please designate which program you wish to support.

Please note that we cannot accept donations from families who are engaged in the adoption process through CHSFS until after the adoption has been finalized.