The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) has been providing residential care services to disadvantaged and vulnerable sectors and training and rehabilitation for persons with disabilities through the establishment of its centers and residential care facilities since the early 1950s.

Residential-Based Services is one of the service delivery mode which refers to the programs and services where group care is provided to residents under the guidance of a trained staff and within a structured therapeutic environment with the objective of reintegrating him/her with the family or community or in the cases of children, it is until such time when a better alternative parental care has been identified for them.

Center-Based Services is another type of service delivery mode which refers to the programs and services rendered when the helping process takes place in the community as the primary client system or when social welfare and development activities are provided to individuals, groups or families while they remain in their home. It is characterized by interaction between the client and worker in the community in relation to the resolution of the identified problems and concerns.

The DSWD is the largest provider of residential care to the disadvantaged sectors of the society, managing a total of sixty-four (64) residential care facilities across the regions and seven (7) non- residential care facilities or centers with a total of seventy-one center and residential care facilities.

The 64 residential care facilities provide residential care to children, women, youth, older persons, persons with disabilities, and families while the 7 non-residential care facilities provide assistance to women and PWDs.