Welfare

(1) Welfare for people with disability

A disabled person is required to have "Handbook for the disabled people" to receive many welfare services. The handbook includes "Handbook for the physically-challenged people", "Handbook for the disabled people with medical raising" and "Handbook for health and welfare of the mentally disabled people". Please apply for the handbook to receive the service respectively.

Physically disabled & Medical raising Koriyama City Handicapped Person’s Welfare Division
TEL：024-924-2381
Mentally disabled Koriyama City Local Health Division of Health Care Center
TEL：024-924-2900

(2) Welfare for the elderly people

Asakano Gakuen University

This university provides the elderly people the opportunities to participate in society and enhance motivation in life by cultivating the sense and way of living of the elderly to conform to the change in life and the contemporary society.

Koriyama City Longevity Welfare Center TEL：024-924-2957

Service for the elderly people

Koriyama City provides services including "subsidies for treatment including acupuncture, moxibustion and massage" and "subsidies of hot spring ticket for the elderly to live in high spirit" with the elderly people to live in a familiar community healthily and with a purpose of life.

Koriyama City Longevity Welfare Division　TEL：024-924-2401

Nursing-care insurance

Nursing-care insurance system is the system that people at the age of 40 years or over enroll in and pay the insurance fee, and if a person is admitted to be in need of nursing-care, he or she may utilize the nursing-care service by bearing 10 % of the service fee.

Koriyama City provides the nursing-care services, such as a facility service and home-care service (visiting nursing-care, visiting care, visiting bathing, ambulatory nursing care and ambulatory rehabilitation). If the foreign national wants to use such services, he or she is required to apply for the certification of long-term care need.

Koriyama City Care and Insurance Division TEL：024-924-3021
Do everything for nursing-care insurance dial TEL：0120-65-3736

(3) Child welfare

Koriyama City will inform the foreign national of a program to support child-raising, a benefit & subsidy system, a child-care facility and a counseling facility relating to children.

1. Temporary childcare service

Temporary childcare program

If a guardian urgently or temporarily has difficulty in caring for a child due to injury or hospitalization in his or her family, Koriyama City will care for the child before school age temporarily or intermittently.

Koriyama City Shibamiya Nursery School TEL：024-945-4443
Koriyama City Taisei Nursery School TEL：024-952-3381
Koriyama Nursery School of Women’s Association TEL：024-922-0653
Asahigaoka Nursery School TEL：024-952-3232
Yatsuyamada Nursery School TEL：024-953-8655

Care for a convalescent child

Koriyama City will temporarily care for a child in the convalescent stage who is not allowed to have a collective nursery care at his or her nursery school due to the condition while he or she is cared at the family.

Medical corporation Nijukai Kikuchi Hospital "Rabbit" TEL：024-932-0154
Medical corporation Children Clinic "Pipa" TEL：024-952-3721

Family Support Center

This is paid volunteer activity to help each other among the members "who want to entrust children" and "who can be entrusted".

Family Support Center TEL：024-924-1904

2. Let's raise children together!

Regional child raising support center

Koriyama City offers such services as providing free space for meetings, mobile salon for consultation on child raising and support for child raising circles for parents with preschool children.

Regional Child Raising Support Center in Asaka Nursery School TEL：024-945-2404

Child Education Support Center

Koriyama City provides a program, such as floor opening, consultation and training course for a child before school and the guardian.

Child Education Support Center in Koriyama City General Education Support Center TEL：024-924-2758

Kibougaoka Children’s Center

Koriyama City opens this facility to provide opportunities for small children and mothers to exchange themselves, and for elementary school pupil to learn cooperativeness.

Kibougaoka Children’s Center TEL：024-961-4633

Child-raising Circle

Koriyama City introduces the Child-raising Circle in the city.

Regional Child Raising Support Center in Asaka Nursery School TEL：024-945-2404

3. Subsidies for children and families raising their children

Allowance for dependent children(Limited)

Koriyama City provides parents raising their children of 6th graders or less with this allowance.

Koriyama City Child Division TEL：024-924-2411

Child-raising allowance(Limited)

Koriyama City provides a mother raising her child at the age of 18 years old or less who earns her living separately from the child’s father due to divorce with this allowance.

Koriyama City Child Division TEL：024-924-2411

Allowance for dependent children at a single-male-parent household(Limited)

Paid to parent with preschool children under paternal care, living separately from mothers due to divorce, etc.

Koriyama City Child Division TEL：024-924-2411

Allowance for special dependent children(Limited)

Koriyama City provides parents raising a child under 20 years of age with disturbance of moderate or over with this allowance.

Koriyama City Disabled Person’s Welfare Division TEL：024-924-2381

Allowance for welfare of disabled children(Limited)

Koriyama City provides a severely disabled child who needs regular care in daily life with this allowance.

Koriyama City Disabled Person’s Welfare Division TEL：024-924-2381

Allowance for nursing care of special children

Koriyama City provides parents raising a disabled child with a certain level or over at the age ranging from 3 years to 19 years with this allowance.

Koriyama City Disabled Person’s Welfare Division　TEL：024-924-2381

Subsidy for medical fee of infants

Koriyama City subsidizes part of medical fee for preschool children.

Koriyama City Child and Families Division TEL：024-924-2411

Subsidy for medical fee of single parent family(Limited)

Koriyama City subsidizes a family of single parent or no parent raising a child under 18 years of age.

Koriyama City Child and Families Division TEL：024-924-2411

Subsidy for medical fee of immature infants

Koriyama City subsidizes part of self-pay burden of medical fee for a baby diagnosed to be an immature infant at the time of childbirth and hospitalized in the specified medical institution.

Koriyama City Local Health Division of Health Care Center TEL：024-924-2900

Subsidy of medical fee for nurturing(limited)

Koriyama City subsidizes part of self-pay burden of medical fee when a physically disabled child under 18 years of age takes a treatment at the specified medical institution.

Koriyama City Local Health Division of Health Care Center TEL：024-924-2900

Subsidy for specified chronic disease of children

Koriyama City subsidizes part of self-pay burden of medical fee when a child under 20 years of age takes a treatment for the specified chronic disease of children.

Koriyama City Local Health Division of Health Care Center TEL：024-924-2900

Loan for welfare of single female parent and a widow

This is the loan system for the female-headed household and a widow.

Koriyama City Child and Families Division TEL：024-924-2411

Nursery charge subsidy for families with many children

A part of nursery charge is subsidized for those families who raise many children and send children to unauthorized nursery.

Koriyama City Nursery Division TEL：024-924-3541

Support Program for Daily Lives of Female-Headed Household

Koriyama City sends a supporter for family lives when a female-headed household is in need of livelihood support temporarily.

Koriyama City Child and Families Division TEL：024-924-2411

Helper dispatch service after giving birth

Provide service to dispatch helpers for domestic work and child raising to families with less than 6-month old babies.

Koriyama City Child Division TEL：024-924-2411

4. Nursery School

Nursery school is a facility that cares for infants before school instead of a guardian when the guardian cannot care for the infant at the family due to job or disease. Nursery school in Koriyama City has two types of school, such as the authorized nursery school and non-registered day-care facilities.

Koriyama City Nursery Division TEL：024-924-3541

5. Kindergarten

Koriyama City has kindergartens to facilitate a flexible education for infants.

Koriyama City General Education Supporting Center　TEL：024-924-2758

6. Counseling Organization

Koriyama City Children and Families Counseling Room of Children and Families Division

TEL：024-924-3341
Counseling hour：8：30 a.m. to 5：15 p.m.(Monday to Friday)
Content of counseling：Matters relating to child-raising

Fukushima Prefecture Middle Region Child Advisory Office

TEL：024-935-0611
Counseling hour：8：30 a.m. to 5：15 p.m.(Monday to Friday)
Content of counseling：All the matters relating to support for healthy development and growth of children

Regional Child Raising Support Center in Asaka Nursery School

TEL：024-945-2404
Counseling hour：9：00 a.m. to 3：00 p.m.(Monday to Friday),9：00 a.m. to 11：00 a.m. (Saturday)
Content of counseling：Matters relating to child-raising, nutrition and health

Koriyama City Local Health Division of Health Care Center

TEL：024-924-2900
Counseling hour：8：30 a.m. to 5：15 p.m.(Monday to Friday)
Content of counseling：Matters relating to child-raising and health of a mother and a child

Koriyama City Preschool Education Support Center in General Education Support Center

TEL：024-933-8081
Counseling hour：9：00 a.m. to 4：30 p.m.(Monday to Friday),9：00 a.m. to 3：30 p.m. (Saturday and Sunday)
Content of counseling：Matters relating to child-raising, medical services of infants and family education

Fukushima Prefecture Education Center for Disabled Students

TEL：024-951-5598
Counseling hour：9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.(Monday to Friday)
Content of counseling：Matters relating to inspection of disability, family nurturing, school lives and career counseling