Short-term Individual Intervention that Focuses on Solutions
Social services is the link that takes the initiative to identify, mediate and care for immigrants in distress, crises and hardship.
Activities include:
Identifying, diagnosing and locating the distress in addition to providing short-term treatment.
Assistance in exercising rights and providing solutions to unusual problems faced by immigrants with special needs via the formal service system, informal organizations and by promoting solutions in the Ministry.
Counseling, guidance and professional accompaniment to absorption counselors in branches and in bureaus.
Professional input and psycho-social opinions given in internal Ministerial committees such as the appeals committee, the Housing Exceptions Committee and the Debt Forgiveness Committee.
Professional responsibility for the formation and implementation of intervention regulations during crises among immigrants who are the victims of hostile acts.
Individual, short-term treatment for mentally ill, homeless, battered women, alcoholics, youth at risk and immigrants who face difficulties from the moment they arrived.
Responsibility for assistance procedures (budget and program): support regulation, district administration fund procedure, refugee procedure.
Responsibility for implementing the law that helps neutralize Chernobyl disaster results and coordination of the recognition committee of 'neutralizers'.