Social Welfare Resources:

1. Welfare Consultation Hotline of Ministry of Health and Welfare: If you need information about your social welfare or have various social welfare needs, such as social assistance, elderly or child welfare, support for families in special circumstances, or national pension insurance, you can call the service hotline at 1957. This hotline will help you understand relevant information and needs. You can directly call this number from any location, and it will connect you to the local social welfare agency. The service hotline is available daily from 08:00 to 22:00.

Disability Service Portal of Social and Family Affairs Administration, Ministry of Health and Welfare

Service Hotline of Social Affairs Office, Taitung County Government: (089) 340-720

Taitung County Social Welfare Service Center (Vulnerable Family Services, Social Safety Net Project)

• Various welfare webpage links

Ministry of Education_Dream Scholarship Network

Social Assistance (low-income, middle-income subsidies, homeless, food bank)

Women's Welfare and Families in Special Circumstances (assistance application and rights promotion)

Children and Youth Welfare (empowerment, placement, adoption, and economic assistance)

Childcare and Early Intervention Services (childcare subsidies, childcare, early intervention referral)

Elderly Welfare (allowances, placement, solitary seniors, long-term care points)

Disability Welfare (identification, disability certificate, placement, economic assistance)

2. Taitung County Family Education Center:

For family issues, marital communication, gender relationships, self-adjustment, parent-child relationships, interpersonal relationships, or communication issues, you can call the hotline. Volunteers trained in counseling will accompany you to solve problems.

Service Hotline: (089) 341-149

3. Taiwan After-Care Association:

If you need to participate in skills certification, employment, education, housing, addiction treatment for smoking, drugs, alcohol, emergency assistance, travel and medical expense subsidies, or entrepreneurship loans, the After-Care Association has branches in all counties and cities across Taiwan. To find the address and phone number of the local branch, you can call the consultation service.

Toll-Free Service Hotline: 0800-7885-95

General Association Phone: (02) 2737-1232

Taiwan After-Care Association Taitung Branch: (089) 310-675

4. Employment Resources:

Workforce Development Agency, Ministry of Labor_Taiwan Employment Link: The Labor Agency has branches in the North, Central, and South, and each township and district office has employment service counters that can assist in referring to employment centers. For vocational training subsidies, skills enhancement, or entrepreneurship information, call the consultation hotline.

Customer Service Hotline: 0800-777-888 (24/7 service)

Workforce Development Agency, Southern Branch

Taitung Employment Center Service Hotline: (089) 357-126

• Employment-related resources

Pre-employment training inquiry

Job vacancy inquiry

Youth vocational training resources

Taitung employment service point information

5. Alcohol and Drug Addiction Resources:

(1) Drug Abuse Prevention Center: Providing addiction treatment, employment referral, social assistance, follow-up counseling, health education consultation, psychological counseling, educational counseling, social assistance, and drug abuse prevention advocacy. It also provides social resource referrals for families of those with addiction. Contact local drug abuse prevention centers.

Consultation Hotline: 0800-770-885 (24 hours)

Taitung County Drug Abuse Prevention Center: (089) 325-995

(2) Taiwan Drunk Driving Prevention Association: (02) 23931676

Ministry of Health and Welfare_Alcohol Addiction Health Education and Advocacy Section

Alcohol Addiction Prevention Manual

Alcohol Addiction Treatment Center, Health Bureau, Taitung County: Taitung County_Alcohol Addiction Treatment Service Hotline: 0800-500-950

6. Long-term Care Resources (Ministry of Health and Welfare Long-Term Care Section):

Providing care for the disabled, transportation, assistive device rental, discharge preparation, dementia care, residential institutions, family caregiver support, and hiring foreign caregivers. You can call the service hotline, and a specialist will conduct an evaluation at home.

Service Hotline: 1966

Taitung County Government_Long-term Care Management Center: (089) 330-068

7. Mental Health Resources:

(1) Peace of Mind Hotline: If you feel anxious, distressed, or encounter setbacks in life, this hotline can provide you with a comforting and stress-relieving listening channel, accompanying you through psychological lows.

Service Hotline: 1925 (24 hours)

Lifeline: 1995

Teacher Chang Hotline: 1980

Women's and Children's Protection Hotline: 113

Ministry of Health and Welfare: Suicide Prevention Strategies and Measures

Community Mental Health Center, Health Bureau, Taitung County

Taiwan Suicide Prevention Society

(2) Male Care Hotline: A dedicated hotline for male issues consultation. If you have problems with parenting, marriage, domestic violence, emotions, etc., this hotline can help you handle stress events or refer you to other resources.

Service Hotline: 0800-013-999 (09:00~23:00)

(3) Taitung City Community Mental Health Center, Taitung County

Service Hotline: (089) 230-295

8. Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Prevention:

Protection Services Division, Ministry of Health and Welfare

Protection Services Division under Ministry of Health and Welfare-Child and Youth Sexual Exploitation Prevention

Women's and Children's Police Brigade of Taitung County Police Bureau

Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Prevention Center, Social Affairs Office, Taitung County Government

9. Private Resources:

(1) Red Heart Association: Providing child and youth care and empowerment, family relationship restoration and rebuilding, family support and assistance, promotion of "innocence of wives and children" concept, and correct drug addiction concepts, economic assistance, and resource linking services.

Taitung Area Service Hotline: (089) 231-033

(2) White Rose Social Care Association: Providing family restoration, food bank, emergency assistance, employment transition services.

Service Hotline: (05) 225-1718

(3) Lourdes Association: Providing addiction treatment and family support services for addicts, and services for people living with HIV.

Hualien-Taitung Service Hotline: (038) 357-776

(4) Swift Eagle Holistic Care Association: Providing addiction treatment programs, anti-drug education, special care for children and youth, and reintegration programs.

Service Hotline: (02) 2891-7471

(5) Libertas Education Foundation: Providing pre-release education, post-release follow-up and counseling, addiction treatment returnee programs, employment services, halfway houses, emergency placement, and social enterprise services for teenagers and adults.

Consultation Hotline: (02) 2936-3201