Social services in the Municipality of Mabini come in the form of health services, shelter, education, protective, social welfare, and sports/recreation facilities

The Rural Health Unit (RHU) spearheads the provision of health services to the local constituents. Health programs include expanded programs on immunization, nutrition/micronutrient supplementation, maternal and child care, out-patient consultation, environmental sanitation program, dental services, public health education and social hygiene. Four barangay health stations are also found in Barangays Magalong, Bacnit, De Guzman and Villacorta.

The municipality provided a relocation site in Barangays Barlo, de Guzman and Villacorta for families affected by natural calamities, Land titles were distributed by the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) to the family beneficiaries.

Protective services are primarily by the local force of the Philippine National Police with its headquarters in the Poblacion. Insurgency problems that might arise are being handled by the army officers with detachment in Barangay De Guzman. Although a fire station is non-existent, a fire truck is currently on standby at the municipal hall. 

Social welfare services offered by the Municipal Social Welfare and Development Office (MSWDO) include self-employment assistance, child and family welfare, family/women/community welfare, emergency assistance, elderly and disabled person’s welfare and other services pertaining to the welfare of the local community.

Supporting sports and recreation activities in the municipality are three (3) multifunctional gymnasiums located in Barangays Poblacion, Calzada, Tagudin and Magalong; basketball courts in the 16 barangays; school playgrounds and commercial facilities such as billiard halls and videoke bars.

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SECTION 17. Basic Services and Facilities.

a) Local government units shall endeavor to be self-reliant and shall continue exercising the powers and discharging the duties and functions currently vested upon them. They shall also discharge the functions and responsibilities of national agencies and offices devolved to them pursuant to this Code. Local government units shall likewise exercise such other powers and discharge such other functions and responsibilities as are necessary, appropriate, or incidental to efficient and effective provision of the basic services and facilities enumerated herein.

b) Such basic services and facilities include, but are not limited to, the following:

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(2) For a municipality:

(i) Extension and on-site research services and facilities related to agriculture and fishery activities which include dispersal of livestock and poultry, fingerlings, and other seeding materials for aqua-culture; palay, corn, and vegetable seed farms; medicinal plant gardens; fruit tree, coconut, and other kinds of seedling nurseries; demonstration farms; quality control of copra and improvement and development of local distribution channels, preferably through cooperatives; inter-Barangay irrigation system; water and soil resource utilization and conservation projects; and enforcement of fishery laws in municipal waters including the conservation of mangroves;

(ii) Pursuant to national policies and subject to supervision, control and review of the DENR, implementation of community-based forestry projects which include integrated social forestry programs and similar projects; management and control of communal forests with an area not exceeding fifty (50) square kilometers; establishment of tree parks, greenbelts, and similar forest development projects;

(iii) Subject to the provisions of Title Five, Book I of this Code, health services which include the implementation of programs and projects on primary health care, maternal and child care, and communicable and non-communicable disease control services; access to secondary and tertiary health services; purchase of medicines, medical supplies, and equipment needed to carry out the services herein enumerated;

(iv) Social welfare services which include programs and projects on child and youth welfare, family and community welfare, women's welfare, welfare of the elderly and disabled persons; community-based rehabilitation programs for vagrants, beggars, street children, scavengers, juvenile delinquents, and victims of drug abuse; livelihood and other pro-poor projects; nutrition services; and family planning services;

(v) Information services which include investments and job placement information systems, tax and marketing information systems, and maintenance of a public library;

(vi) Solid waste disposal system or environmental management system and services or facilities related to general hygiene and sanitation;

(vii) Municipal buildings, cultural centers, public parks including freedom parks, playgrounds, and sports facilities and equipment, and other similar facilities;

(viii) Infrastructure facilities intended primarily to service the needs of the residents of the municipality and which are funded out of municipal funds including, but not limited to, municipal roads and bridges; school buildings and other facilities for public elementary and secondary schools; clinics, health centers and other health facilities necessary to carry out health services; communal irrigation, small water impounding projects and other similar projects; fish ports; artesian wells, spring development, rainwater collectors and water supply systems; seawalls, dikes, drainage and sewerage, and flood control; traffic signals and road signs; and similar facilities;

(ix) Public markets, slaughterhouses and other municipal enterprises;

(x) Public cemetery;

(xi) Tourism facilities and other tourist attractions, including the acquisition of equipment, regulation and supervision of business concessions, and security services for such facilities; and

(xii) Sites for police and fire stations and substations and the municipal jail.