fa Clinical Original Article <span style="font-size:12px;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;">Background: The incidence of social harm has increased in recent years owing to changes in social norms and behaviors.<br> The welfare organization is an important public organization for providing social services in Iran. The present study<br> aimed to determine the achievements of national social programs in the welfare organization of Iran.<br> Methods: The present mixed method study was conducted in three stages, namely documentary analysis, individual<br> interview, and group discussion. The participants included senior staff managers, social deputy experts of the welfare<br> organization, provincial managers and experts from 31 provincial offices, and 21 members of public mediators. The<br> examined programs included social emergency hotline, mobile services, intervention in personal, familial, and social<br> crises, provision of community-based social services, special health house for girls exposed to social harm, a<br> rehabilitation program for socially-harmed women and girls, training courses for kindergarten coaches and principals,<br> and the micro-financing plan with a linked banking approach. The data were analyzed by content analysis.<br> Results: The major achievements of the programs included the prevention and control of harm, helping to create jobs for<br> harmed women, holding practical and theoretical courses for kindergarten coaches, facilitating the citizens&#39; access to<br> telephone counseling services for social emergency through easy free calls, referrals to urgent and specialized intervention<br> centers, access to social emergency services in marginalized areas and slums, available mobile service vehicles equipped<br> with tracking systems to identify common and spreading injuries, timely and effective interventions, temporary<br> accommodation in centers, and specialized measures to return the socially disadvantaged individuals to the normal state,<br> creating conditions for obtaining bank loans for female household heads without collateral requirements and guarantors.<br> A total of 324 offices provided services to socially disadvantaged individuals, and 132 neighborhoods were covered by<br> the community-based empowerment plan. A total of 534,706 individuals were identified for receiving community-based<br> social services, among whom 17% were filed. A total of 31 special health houses were active for girls at risk of social<br> harm and they had received 840 individuals. There were 26 active centers for supporting and rehabilitating socially<br> disadvantaged women and girls among whom 1649 received services.<br> Conclusion: The welfare organization has obtained great social achievements. Solving the challenges of these programs<br> and the quantitative and qualitative development of the programs can lead to synergy and improvement of indices of<br> benefiting from social services in target groups.</span></span> Achievement,National health programs,Organization and administration,Social Welfare,Welfare Organization,Iran 5 9 http://jhd.goums.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-33-1&slc_lang=fa&sid=1 Behzad Damari 1003194753284600174 1003194753284600174 No Department of Governance and Health, Neuroscience Research Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Alireza Heidari 1003194753284600175 1003194753284600175 Yes Health Management, and Social Development Research Center, Golestan University of Medical Sciences, Gorgan, Iran Habibullah Masoudi farid 1003194753284600176 1003194753284600176 No Social Deputy, Welfare Organization, Tehran, Iran Arezou Zokaei 1003194753284600177 1003194753284600177 No Social Deputy, Welfare Organization, Tehran, Iran Fariba Derakhshnnia 1003194753284600178 1003194753284600178 No Social Deputy, Welfare Organization, Tehran, Iran Mohammad Nafarieh 1003194753284600179 1003194753284600179 No Social Deputy, Welfare Organization, Tehran, Iran Hossein Asadbeigi 1003194753284600180 1003194753284600180 No Social Deputy, Welfare Organization, Tehran, Iran Fariba Barimani 1003194753284600181 1003194753284600181 No Social Deputy, Welfare Organization, Tehran, Iran