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Address: FSWS Gozo Branch Operations, Soil Street,
Xewkija
Locality: Gozo
Tel: 2258 8990/2
The Foundation for Social Welfare Services has recently set up a directorate in Gozo to ensure that its mission is extended to Gozo without any compromise in quality, which in normal circumstances could be expected due to distance and lack of accessibility.
The LEAP workers are the first point of reference for anyone who does not know where to seek help or what kind of help is required for his particular situation. They refer clients to specific professionals such as social workers, family therapists, counsellors and job advisors. The Home-Based Therapeutic Services in Gozo provide a family therapist and a counsellor based in Gozo who visit clients at their homes. The FSWS Gozo Branch also includes Appoġġ services with generic social workers, and other services for fostered children and parents, looked-after children, HomeStart for families with newborns, Supervised Access Visits for looked-after children who would be meeting their natural parents and social work service at the Gozo General Hospital.
There is also the Sedqa preventive programme for children, TFAL 3 which started in January 2019. The Gozo Branch works hand in hand with educational institutions for the dissemination of information and awareness campaigns. For this purpose, it also uses the Education, Science and Culture Centre at Lunzjata Valley from where a number of educational sessions are conducted. It also serves as a research base from where, at present, a research on Homelessness in Gozo is being conducted. The Gozo Branch also conducts a programme with 15 Gozitan prison inmates and their families.
The Gozo Branch’s latest initiative is the emergency on-call service which is available to anyone on 9955 7069 during the week after office hours and 24/7 on weekends and public holidays.
This programme of works by the FSWS Gozo Branch is dynamic and changes constantly to cater for the circumstances and realities that prevail in Gozo. It collaborates with the Ministry for Gozo with its various departments, the Parliamentary Secretary for the Rights of Persons with Disability and Active Ageing, and the Ministry of Education through its social workers within the Gozo College and Jobs Plus, amongst others.
Once these services have been extended in a uniform manner in Gozo, the FSWS Gozo Branch looks forward to strengthening the social infrastructure on the island.