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The aim of family life education is to equip parents with skills and knowledge of parenting to prepare them for their children’s discharge. The direction towards integration begins at the time of admission when social workers engage parents in long term care plans for their children. A time-frame is set to achieve this. Families are encouraged to attend family life education sessions which are fun and facilitate parent-child bonding. They include counselling sessions, talks and workshops. The annual Family Day is another platform where parents and children get together to have fun, and bond.
Children from disadvantaged background oftentimes carry with them emotional hurts and insecurities. When all is not right in the world of the child, children express their unhappiness through behaviours such as anger outbursts, bullying, stealing, running away from home, manipulative behaviour, fighting, withdrawal, poor social skills etc. Individual counselling and group work sessions are organised on a regular basis to address these childrens’ emotional needs and help them cope more effectively.
A multi-disciplinary approach is adopted with social workers working closely with various professionals like teachers, school counselors, family counselors, MCYS Child Protection Officers, psychologists and doctors to conduct intervention programme to support the developmental needs of the children.
The Home also runs programmes to provide a safe environment for the children to share their thoughts and feelings and to be affirmed by caring adults. Our In-house programmes are as follows: |
