Information and Referral
Information pertaining to social services is available to clients on request. Where necessary, service users can be referred to other appropriate organizations and obtain the needed services such as job matching, short-term financial assistance, elderly care and legal consultation.

Casework and Counselling
Our team of professional social workers/counsellors is available to help individuals and families resolving their social and emotional challenges by gaining insight of the distress and drawing on resources and own strengths in dealing with the difficult situations. Issues of concern brought up by clients include parenting, marital and family relationships, and developmental difficulties experienced by children and teenagers such as peer pressure.

Counselling Fees
Combined Gross Family Income =< $450 per capita Waived
Combined Gross Family Income > $450 - $600 per capita $20 per session
Combined Gross Family Income > $600 per capita $30 per session
Additional charge for session in Tuesday & Thursday evenings (after 6pm) and on Saturdays $5 per session
Exceptional cases $10 per session

 

‘Enhancing Positive Changes’ aka EPC, previously a component of ‘Breaking the Cycle’ has now ‘broken’ free and stands independently, while it takes on a new and improved approach to family life education. EPC evolved from an intensive research and needs assessment of adults and/or parents eager to acquire essential life skills. EPC aims to help existing clients and the general public to discover their inner strengths and to cope with their daily stressors and life challenges.

Desired Outcomes:

Enhancing Positive Changes enables participants to:

  • explore and discover various life aspects through sharing of experiences and personal reflections.
  • adopt an interactive and experiential approach on topics like marital issues, family and financial planning, parenting challenges and interpersonal relationship issues.

Club Fidentia is a programme tailored for youths, aged 13 to 18, in respond to their desire for fun and interaction with friends in interesting and challenging activities. It also provides opportunities for youths to learn life skills, an avenue for academic and social support, and learn skills on social entrepreneurship. It is hoped to increase the awareness of the role they played in making meaningful contributions to their families, schools, peer groups and communities.

Desired Outcomes
Club Fidentia encourages youth…

  • to realise their positive traits so as to enhance their self-image.
  • to learn life skills to deal with stressors and challenges in their daily lives.
  • to make a meaningful contribution to the community and to be responsible for their actions.

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The Bright Owl Project (BOP) is a regular mentoring and academic support programme held every Tuesday from 7.30pm to 9.00pm. BOP targets children from 9 to 12 years old (Primary 3 to Primary 6) from low-income families, with a gross household income of less than $1500, or a per capita income of less than $300.  We have volunteers from NTU to coach and mentor the children in their homework and on a one-to-one basis on their academic and social development.

We also conduct activities once every 3 months, such as sandwich making, kite making, origami and outings or visits. The children enjoy these activities as they learn and have fun at the same time!

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Family Life Education (FLE) aims at imparting critical life-skills and knowledge for the sustenance of a cohesive family unit. by offering talks and workshops to children, teenagers, parents and couples, in the hope to improve the quality of their personal and family life.

We organize ad-hoc FLE programmes for schools and organizations. We also tailor the talk/workshop according to the needs of the schools and organizations.

Talk/workshop/groupwork
For Parents

  • How to provide a conducive learning environment for your child
  • Tapping your child’s multiple intelligences
  • Raising children with emotional intelligence
  • Father’s role in parenting today
  • Parenting challenges for working parents

For Children

  • I am SMART!" – Study and Master the Right Techniques
  • Help! There is a Volcano in My Tummy
  • "I Am Confident" – Self-Esteem Building Workshop

For Teenager

  • How to deal with Peer Pressure
  • Create leadership and mentoring skills for Youth
  • Understanding sexuality and handling BGR

For Couples

  • Romancing Your Marriage Life
  • Growing Together
  • How Deep is Your Love

 

This is an integrated programme, aiming to empower students to utilise their potential with the support from teachers, schools, and parents. Various programmes and activities are tailored according to the needs of the schools such as groupwork for children/teenagers, parenting talk/workshop, counselling and assembly talks for students.

 

“Prevention is better than cure” so they say. Given the increase in divorce rates, it makes good sense to invest time and effort to safeguard your marriage.

Most couples spend a great deal of time, energy and money on a wedding ceremony that lasts a few hours. But they spend little time acquiring relationsip skills needed to build a marriage that could last 50 years.

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