■Standing with the voiceless ~From the field of community welfare~ Narration: Toyoda Yasuo, Voice: Nakajima Megumi Director: Toyoshima Manae Cinematography: Komatsu Wahei Editing: Izumi Takuji MA: Nakajima Yasunari Effects: Okano Toshiya Producer: Kanei Takayuki Kansai TV "The Document" Broadcast on January 26, 2014 ■Awarded Sakata Memorial Journalism Award, 1st Division Special Award <The Document Official Page> https://www.ktv.jp/document/220520.html *Due to copyright restrictions, some content may differ from that of the terrestrial broadcast. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This program is a documentary that follows the activities of Katsube Reiko (Community Welfare Section Chief), who works as a CSW (Community Social Worker) at the Toyonaka City Social Welfare Council in Osaka Prefecture. The CSW is a position that was independently started by Osaka Prefecture in 2004 to address problems that were difficult to address with existing welfare services. Katsube is a welfare expert who responds to consultations at welfare consultation desks in each school district, and is positioned between local residents and the government. Every day, various consultations are brought to Katsube. He faces all kinds of problems in the community, such as garbage houses, social withdrawal, promoting sports for the disabled, employment support for the poor, and isolation. His creed is "not to exclude." Consultations tend to come in the form of "please do something about that 'problematic person.'" Katsube accepts "problematic people" as "people in trouble" and begins to support them without excluding them. "Problematic people" are often people who have fallen into the gaps of existing systems and suffer from social isolation, and can be said to represent where the seeds of social problems lie. As the economy recovers in rural areas under Abenomics, there are no signs of improvement in problems that have long been pointed out, such as inequality, poverty, and loneliness among the elderly. This program takes another look at the welfare field that faces such problems. There are people who lament the loss of old local communities. Katsube says that going back to the past is not the solution. New social issues require new solutions, and he is aware that this is where professionals should work creatively, and that he is a professional in that field. Seeing Katsube, who does not run away from the consultations he receives and boldly takes on new challenges, makes us realize that welfare is a creative job. Isn't it true that it is not the "logic of exclusion" but the "determination not to exclude" that gives birth to new things? Katsube's keyword is "From a society without ties to a society with ties." We will cover the process of solving problems in the cases that Katsube works on, and deliver a program that will allow us to think carefully about new problems in local communities.