The LSCR, Bow!

The LSCR, Bow!

After the SOMA (State of the Municipality Address), there's SOCA (State of the Children's Address) next, now called Local State of the Children Report (LSCR).

This is another document that requires a lot of hard work, patience, persistence, and most especially friendly coordination with practically all LGU departments and locally based national government agencies, if you are to finish it on time. (This is how I get to know all the key people in each unit, department, and agency, and I mean all.)

Years of working on this document slowly opened my eyes to the variety of services that local governments give to children and the youth, particularly our LGU.

I keep on discovering new stuff, and this year, I hope I have omitted only a very few, if any.

Anyway, I just wanted everyone to know about the long list of services that our LGU provides for the young. To think that I only included those activities that are done annually or with clockwork regularity.

Behold the surprising vastness of its scope.

In a way, local governance is all about serving our children and preparing for their future.

(By the way, I thank everyone who got directly involved in the crafting of this document: my staff (PIO team), OJTs, MSWDO-ECCD focal persons, the heads and key staff of all units, departments, and agencies that directly deliver services to young people.)

SURVIVAL

- Free live birth at RHU I at II
- Newborn screening
- Free immunization
- Vitamin A supplementation
- Deworming
- Iron supplementation
- Other medical, dental, and minor surgical services sa Komprehensibong Serbisyo sa Bayan
- Supplementary feeding program
- Nutrition program
- Nutrition Month activities
- Assistance to children with special medical cases
- Oral health care program
- Operation Timbang Plus
- Health information drives for students
- Sports and physical activities

DEVELOPMENT

- Early childhood care and development
- Special LGU daycare
- Free therapy for children with disability in Stimulation Therapeutic Activity Center
- Support for ALS (Alternative Learning System)
- Free school supplies
- Recognition of academic and sports achievers
- Backyard gardening
- Amusement park at municipal plaza
- Municipal Museum services
- Municipal Library services
- Buklat Aklat literacy/reading tutorial project
- Donation of school equipment and other assistance
- Brigada Eskwela package
- Support for Gulayan sa Paaralan
- SPES (Special Program fro Employment of Students) and GIP (Government Internship Program) beneficiaries
- OJTs and WIP (job internship activities)
- Free college education (scholarship) at Bayambang Polytechnic College

PROTECTION

- Assistance to CICLs (children in conflict with the law)
- PNP and Barangay VAWC Desk and assistance to victims of child abuse and violence
- PNP Campus Desk, police visits, and police visibility in school grounds
- POSO traffic enforcers near schools
- PNP anti-bullying, anti-drug, etc. lectures in schools
- Early warning bells in schools
- Quarterly NSEDs (nationwide simultaneous earthquake drills)
- Regular Local Council for the Protection of Children (LCPC) meetings, Local Committee on Anti-Trafficking and Violence Against Women and their Children (LCAT-VAWC) meetings, and Juvenile Justice Dialogues
- Seminar on children's rights
- Civil registry services (birth certificates, late registration, etc.)
- Intervention programs on mental health and teenage pregnancy
- Public hearings and legislative enactments on children's concerns
- Intervention activities against child labor incidences

PARTICIPATION

- Participation in fiesta coverage and activities
- Little Mr. & Ms. Bayambang
- Tourism Month contests (quiz bee, poem writing tilt, painting contest, etc.)
- Halloween trick-or-treat and costume contest
- National Children's Month activities
- Linggo ng Kabataan and International Youth Day activities
- Pamaskong Handog gift-giving and other treats for indigent children