The Jeonbuk Support Group for Regional Child Centers (Director Choi Hyun-young) held a meeting to share field cases to strengthen support tailored to children’s characteristics and to expand community care and safety nets.

On the 1st, the Support Group held an open case presentation of the "Supporting Children Growing As Themselves" program and the "TogetherKeep365" Regional Child Center Care and Safety Net Project Case Conference at the Jeonju Signature Hotel. Both events focused on sharing accumulated field experience in child support and on seeking more effective support approaches through expert consultation and case review.

At the open case presentation of the "Supporting Children Growing As Themselves" program, dispatched specialists working at regional child centers across the province shared cases from their experience supporting slow learners with borderline intellectual functioning. They then discussed intervention methods tailored to the children’s characteristics and circumstances through supervision by field-specific advisory committee members.

Case reviews were divided into four areas: child mental health; integrated case management and resource linkage; learning support and emotional management; and collaborative communication and child guidance. Advisory committee members and dispatched specialists examined children’s behaviors and difficulties from multiple perspectives and jointly reviewed learning, emotional, and social support measures applicable in the field.

This project is a customized support program that helps slow learners’ cognitive and emotional development and healthy social adaptation. The participation scale has expanded from an initial 20 sites to 40 and then 60 sites. Currently, 60 regional child centers in 14 cities and counties in the province are participating, with 240 children and 60 dispatched specialists involved.

At the "TogetherKeep365" case conference, participants examined the main challenges, support processes, and changes before and after participation based on actual child support cases from participating regional child centers. In particular, they reviewed children’s safety awareness, self-protection capacities, and emotional and behavioral changes, seeking support examples and practical directions that can be used in the field.

Supported by the Jeonbuk Community Chest, this project aims to establish a customized integrated care system centered on regional child centers to build a safety net for children using care institutions in 14 cities and counties across the province. The conference was meaningful in that it provided a forum to share individual centers’ practical experiences and to lay the groundwork for disseminating effective support methods to other sites.

Director Choi Hyun-young said, "Continued capacity building for dispatched specialists and the sharing of field cases are important foundations for maintaining appropriate support for children," adding, "We will consistently provide training, supervision, and opportunities to share cases to strengthen customized support and care and safety nets so that children can grow healthily in safe environments."

Professor Kim Seo-hyun, Department of Social Welfare, said, "For children’s safety and healthy development, it is important that field professionals share their experience and expertise and that the community supports them together," adding, "When field cases are shared and accumulated within the community, the foundation for understanding children more closely and connecting them to necessary support will also expand."

Meanwhile, Jeonbuk National University (JBNU) Regional Child Center Support Group provides training, consulting, and evaluation to 287 regional child centers across the province. Through specialized projects in collaboration with the Jeonbuk Community Chest—such as support for slow learners and building care and safety nets for children suspected of abuse—it continues to deliver customized services for local children.