🎉🥳 We wish all our new subscribers a very Welcoming Wednesday! 🎉🥳
Today, we bring you exclusive footage 🎞 on the behind-the-scenes of helping Singaporeans in need!
Filmed 🎥 and edited 📽 by our student interns, Xavierlyn Tan from NTU and Ong Ci Wen from NUS, see how the Social Service Office (SSO) came together with IMH, Big Love Child Protection Specialist Centre, Punggol FSC and Mendaki to develop a coordinated plan 📝 (what we call our Case MAP) to support one of our beneficiaries.
We shall not say more 🤐 and let the video do the talking 📢 (literally!)
https://www.facebook.com/MSFSingapore/videos/2368911260045804/
Today, we bring you exclusive footage 🎞 on the behind-the-scenes of helping Singaporeans in need!
Filmed 🎥 and edited 📽 by our student interns, Xavierlyn Tan from NTU and Ong Ci Wen from NUS, see how the Social Service Office (SSO) came together with IMH, Big Love Child Protection Specialist Centre, Punggol FSC and Mendaki to develop a coordinated plan 📝 (what we call our Case MAP) to support one of our beneficiaries.
We shall not say more 🤐 and let the video do the talking 📢 (literally!)
https://www.facebook.com/MSFSingapore/videos/2368911260045804/
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Ever wondered what goes on behind the scenes of helping Singaporeans in need?
TGIF! 🎉 Welcome back to another edition of #MustShareFridays! Because good things... Must Share!
🗺 Mapping Singapore’s Footpaths:
#throwback 1990: A university lecturer, his students and Public Works officers removed obstacles to wheelchair users and made Orchard Road more accessible.
#fastforward 2019: The little changes have since paved 🔨the way 🛣 for a greater project in the form of the CBD Accessibility Mapping Day, held on Wednesday. Find out how the Disabled People’s Association along with MSF, BNP Paribas Securities Services, Singapore Poly students and DP Architects came together, and tapped on technology to make the Central Business District more accessible.
➡️Read what Minister Desmond Lee had to say: http://bit.ly/2xMA2rb
📺ST Hangouts to Find Out about Fostering: What is fostering? 🧐 Many confuse fostering and adoption as the same thing. So last night one of our foster mothers, Ms Tay Li Ping, Boys' Town representative Ms Lee Pei Yu, and NTU students shared with Straits Times about fostering 👨👩👧👦👨👩👦👦 and debunked its common myths.
➡️Watch on from 14:07 to find out more: bit.ly/2JFsOL0
Play Your Part
👨👩👧👦Interested to be a foster parent? Check out our upcoming roadshows this weekend:
👉🏼13 July: Library@Harbourfront (10 am – 5pm)
👉🏼13 July: Keat Hong CC Activity Group Room #03-03 (10 am – 3pm)
👉🏼14 July: Our Tampines Hub, Central Plaza (12 – 5pm)
👉🏼14 July: Jurong Regional Library, Level 3, Project Room 1 (10 am – 3pm)
🇸🇬❤️The SG Cares “Celebrating our Culture of Care” event is happening this weekend (13 & 14 July) at Chong Pang Amphitheatre! Come down and personalise your own tote bag or contribute to our mural! Details can be found here 👇🏼👇🏼
🗺 Mapping Singapore’s Footpaths:
#throwback 1990: A university lecturer, his students and Public Works officers removed obstacles to wheelchair users and made Orchard Road more accessible.
#fastforward 2019: The little changes have since paved 🔨the way 🛣 for a greater project in the form of the CBD Accessibility Mapping Day, held on Wednesday. Find out how the Disabled People’s Association along with MSF, BNP Paribas Securities Services, Singapore Poly students and DP Architects came together, and tapped on technology to make the Central Business District more accessible.
➡️Read what Minister Desmond Lee had to say: http://bit.ly/2xMA2rb
📺ST Hangouts to Find Out about Fostering: What is fostering? 🧐 Many confuse fostering and adoption as the same thing. So last night one of our foster mothers, Ms Tay Li Ping, Boys' Town representative Ms Lee Pei Yu, and NTU students shared with Straits Times about fostering 👨👩👧👦👨👩👦👦 and debunked its common myths.
➡️Watch on from 14:07 to find out more: bit.ly/2JFsOL0
Play Your Part
👨👩👧👦Interested to be a foster parent? Check out our upcoming roadshows this weekend:
👉🏼13 July: Library@Harbourfront (10 am – 5pm)
👉🏼13 July: Keat Hong CC Activity Group Room #03-03 (10 am – 3pm)
👉🏼14 July: Our Tampines Hub, Central Plaza (12 – 5pm)
👉🏼14 July: Jurong Regional Library, Level 3, Project Room 1 (10 am – 3pm)
🇸🇬❤️The SG Cares “Celebrating our Culture of Care” event is happening this weekend (13 & 14 July) at Chong Pang Amphitheatre! Come down and personalise your own tote bag or contribute to our mural! Details can be found here 👇🏼👇🏼
Have a Not-So-Mundane Monday with a life lesson (and newsflash!)
👩🏻🏫 Life lesson #1:
Managing work 💼 and family 👨👩👧👦 commitments will make for happier lives.
📺 Newsflash #1:
A new 🗣 Citizens Panel on Work Life has been formed to help Singaporeans manage work and family commitments.
➡️ Register your interest here
https://www.ideas.gov.sg/public/CitizensPanel_WorkLifeHarmony
and stay committed 🤝 to this important issue with us!
👩🏻🏫 Life lesson #1:
Managing work 💼 and family 👨👩👧👦 commitments will make for happier lives.
📺 Newsflash #1:
A new 🗣 Citizens Panel on Work Life has been formed to help Singaporeans manage work and family commitments.
➡️ Register your interest here
https://www.ideas.gov.sg/public/CitizensPanel_WorkLifeHarmony
and stay committed 🤝 to this important issue with us!
www.ideas.gov.sg
Citizens' Panel on Work-Life Harmony
We will be convening a Citizens' Panel to shape a new consensus on work-life harmony together.
🇸🇬 Majulah Singapura! 🇸🇬
The gotong royong spirit of Singaporeans burnt brightly🔥🔥at the NCSS Social Service Summit today. 60 years ago, many 👭👬 individuals came together to help, and gave birth to the social service sector 🏩 of today.
Today’s 🗓 social service agencies are able to provide more coordinated help 🤝 to target the increasingly complex needs of our beneficiaries.
Our newest addition, Temi, created by MI Robotic (a Singapore headquartered developer of applied robotics technology), is a robot which could be helping to take on labour intensive tasks 🔧 from social workers. This will allow social workers to focus on providing better 👍🏼 services to the needy. 👵🏼👴🏼👶🏻👧🏻👦🏻
By harnessing the power of community 👥 and leveraging on 💻 new technologies, we have done so much, and can do so much more.
Let’s keep the gotong royong spirit of Singapura alive as we progress forward. Because Singapore Cares. ❤️
➡️ Catch a glimpse 👀 of the rich history 🎞 of Singapore’s social service sector here: https://youtu.be/VGMXlheKi9o
The gotong royong spirit of Singaporeans burnt brightly🔥🔥at the NCSS Social Service Summit today. 60 years ago, many 👭👬 individuals came together to help, and gave birth to the social service sector 🏩 of today.
Today’s 🗓 social service agencies are able to provide more coordinated help 🤝 to target the increasingly complex needs of our beneficiaries.
Our newest addition, Temi, created by MI Robotic (a Singapore headquartered developer of applied robotics technology), is a robot which could be helping to take on labour intensive tasks 🔧 from social workers. This will allow social workers to focus on providing better 👍🏼 services to the needy. 👵🏼👴🏼👶🏻👧🏻👦🏻
By harnessing the power of community 👥 and leveraging on 💻 new technologies, we have done so much, and can do so much more.
Let’s keep the gotong royong spirit of Singapura alive as we progress forward. Because Singapore Cares. ❤️
➡️ Catch a glimpse 👀 of the rich history 🎞 of Singapore’s social service sector here: https://youtu.be/VGMXlheKi9o
YouTube
Social Service in Singapore - Past, Present, Future
Watch the video on the milestones of the sector throughout its 60 years of structured social services in Singapore.
🙌🏼 Celebrating our Unsung Heroes 👩🏻🍳
How about some heartwarming personal stories 📖 from our Public Service Officers to warm your hearts 💕? For today’s #MustShareFriday, we bring you a #MustShareFilm 🎞 ‘Finding L’, story of Natashah, our Senior Youth Guidance Officer 👩🏻💼 at the Singapore Girls’ Home.
For Natashah, being a Youth Guidance Officer is more than a job. It is a commitment and her passion 🌈.
When L (not her real name) did not return to the Home 🏠, Natashah 👩🏻💼 went beyond 🏔 the call 📞 of duty to find her so that L could continue her rehabilitation. It helps to have someone cheering 💪🏼 our youth on and rooting 🙌🏼 for them.
Natashah was awarded 🏆 the PST Award (Exemplary Service Excellence Category) at the Public Sector Transformation Awards Reception today, which recognised public officers 👮♀️ and public agencies 🏢 for excellence 👍🏼 in their work and organisational practices.
➡️ Watch ‘Finding L’: https://youtu.be/gjR3qbGCvmo
Play your Part
👧🏻👦🏻 Give the Best to Our Children, Shape Our Tomorrow
Non-teaching staff such as cooks 👨🏻🍳, cleaners 👷🏼♂️ administrative staff 👨🏻💼and early childhood educators all give our children a safe and nurturing environment to learn 📝 and grow 🌳.
NTUC First Campus’ Learning and Sharing Festival 2019 saw the launch of ‘🍚 Recipes with Love 💕’ which features some of these important non-teaching staff across My First Skool’s centres. And not to mention 21 healthy recipes for children! 😋
This Learning and Sharing Festival will be open to the public on 21 July, where parents 👪 can sign up and participate in workshops 👩🏻🏫 cooking demo sessions 🍽 and showcase booths🔬.
➡️Event details at https://www.myfirstskool.com/event/l&s2019
👥🏢 The Unlimited Possibilities of Inclusive Hiring
How can we play our part to make Singapore 🇸🇬 a more inclusive 👬 and caring 💞 place for everyone, regardless of ability?
For some businesses, getting started on the journey 🛣 of hiring disabled persons may be daunting 🧐. To bridge 🌉 this gap, UOB is partnering 🤝 SG Enable, Autism Resource Centre (ARC), Movement for the Intellectually Disabled of Singapore (MINDS) and SPD to provide training and support to both employer 👴🏼 and employee 👨🏻before, during and after the hiring process. By doing so, more businesses and disabled persons will be connected for suitable and sustainable employment. 🙆🏻♂️🙆🏻♀️
➡️Find out more about ‘The Unlimited’🙌🏼: https://sg.finance.yahoo.com/news/uob-launches-initiative-help-business-103000567.html
How about some heartwarming personal stories 📖 from our Public Service Officers to warm your hearts 💕? For today’s #MustShareFriday, we bring you a #MustShareFilm 🎞 ‘Finding L’, story of Natashah, our Senior Youth Guidance Officer 👩🏻💼 at the Singapore Girls’ Home.
For Natashah, being a Youth Guidance Officer is more than a job. It is a commitment and her passion 🌈.
When L (not her real name) did not return to the Home 🏠, Natashah 👩🏻💼 went beyond 🏔 the call 📞 of duty to find her so that L could continue her rehabilitation. It helps to have someone cheering 💪🏼 our youth on and rooting 🙌🏼 for them.
Natashah was awarded 🏆 the PST Award (Exemplary Service Excellence Category) at the Public Sector Transformation Awards Reception today, which recognised public officers 👮♀️ and public agencies 🏢 for excellence 👍🏼 in their work and organisational practices.
➡️ Watch ‘Finding L’: https://youtu.be/gjR3qbGCvmo
Play your Part
👧🏻👦🏻 Give the Best to Our Children, Shape Our Tomorrow
Non-teaching staff such as cooks 👨🏻🍳, cleaners 👷🏼♂️ administrative staff 👨🏻💼and early childhood educators all give our children a safe and nurturing environment to learn 📝 and grow 🌳.
NTUC First Campus’ Learning and Sharing Festival 2019 saw the launch of ‘🍚 Recipes with Love 💕’ which features some of these important non-teaching staff across My First Skool’s centres. And not to mention 21 healthy recipes for children! 😋
This Learning and Sharing Festival will be open to the public on 21 July, where parents 👪 can sign up and participate in workshops 👩🏻🏫 cooking demo sessions 🍽 and showcase booths🔬.
➡️Event details at https://www.myfirstskool.com/event/l&s2019
👥🏢 The Unlimited Possibilities of Inclusive Hiring
How can we play our part to make Singapore 🇸🇬 a more inclusive 👬 and caring 💞 place for everyone, regardless of ability?
For some businesses, getting started on the journey 🛣 of hiring disabled persons may be daunting 🧐. To bridge 🌉 this gap, UOB is partnering 🤝 SG Enable, Autism Resource Centre (ARC), Movement for the Intellectually Disabled of Singapore (MINDS) and SPD to provide training and support to both employer 👴🏼 and employee 👨🏻before, during and after the hiring process. By doing so, more businesses and disabled persons will be connected for suitable and sustainable employment. 🙆🏻♂️🙆🏻♀️
➡️Find out more about ‘The Unlimited’🙌🏼: https://sg.finance.yahoo.com/news/uob-launches-initiative-help-business-103000567.html
YouTube
P.S. Finding L
What happens when a young girl fails to return Home after curfew?
#psshortfilmseries #findingL
#psshortfilmseries #findingL
It can be very difficult for a family when a loved one is diagnosed with dementia - losing his or her ability to make decisions - but has not made an LPA.
📑 What is an LPA❓
The Lasting Power of Attorney (LPA) is a legal document that allows persons to appoint a family member or friend to make decisions for them if they lose mental capacity.
Here are three reasons why you should make an LPA!
➡️ From 1 August this year, the waiting period before an LPA can be registered will be halved from 6 weeks to 3.
➡️ Application fee is waived until 31 August next year.
➡️ You can access your registered LPA through our new online portal. - also from 1 August.
👩🏻⚕️👵🏼More Comprehensive Support for Caregivers
And let’s not forget about our Caregivers!
We have been working to improve our support for Caregivers and family members of those who lose mental capacity, such as dementia patients. This is the focus of the Committee to Review and Enhance Reforms in the Family Justice System (we know it’s a mouthful, let’s call it RERF Committee for short).
👥 RERF Recommendations
RERF has been rather busy and the Committee has suggested two improvements!
1. Simplify the application process for caregivers to appoint a “Deputy”, making it more affordable.
PS: What is a “Deputy”? When an LPA has not been made, family members need to apply to the Court to be appointed a “Deputy” so they can make important decisions for their loved ones.
2. More support for Deputies - for example, access to training so they can carry out their duties more confidently.
➡️ We want to hear from you!
Have something to say about the recommendations? Join us at our upcoming public consultation exercise! Stay tuned 📺
Check out the 2 media facts below for more information 👇🏼
📑 What is an LPA❓
The Lasting Power of Attorney (LPA) is a legal document that allows persons to appoint a family member or friend to make decisions for them if they lose mental capacity.
Here are three reasons why you should make an LPA!
➡️ From 1 August this year, the waiting period before an LPA can be registered will be halved from 6 weeks to 3.
➡️ Application fee is waived until 31 August next year.
➡️ You can access your registered LPA through our new online portal. - also from 1 August.
👩🏻⚕️👵🏼More Comprehensive Support for Caregivers
And let’s not forget about our Caregivers!
We have been working to improve our support for Caregivers and family members of those who lose mental capacity, such as dementia patients. This is the focus of the Committee to Review and Enhance Reforms in the Family Justice System (we know it’s a mouthful, let’s call it RERF Committee for short).
👥 RERF Recommendations
RERF has been rather busy and the Committee has suggested two improvements!
1. Simplify the application process for caregivers to appoint a “Deputy”, making it more affordable.
PS: What is a “Deputy”? When an LPA has not been made, family members need to apply to the Court to be appointed a “Deputy” so they can make important decisions for their loved ones.
2. More support for Deputies - for example, access to training so they can carry out their duties more confidently.
➡️ We want to hear from you!
Have something to say about the recommendations? Join us at our upcoming public consultation exercise! Stay tuned 📺
Check out the 2 media facts below for more information 👇🏼
Partnerships Make A Difference
Who is a peer? 👥 A peer is someone who is there to help you when you're down. A group of 20 community partners came together as PEERS Network to figure out how to better support people who sleep in public. Leveraging on each other's strengths, they were able to reach out a hand to rough sleepers, offer them a safe place to rest, and help them find assistance to get back on their feet. Go PEERS Network!
➡️Read the story of how they came to be on Minister Desmond Lee's Facebook post: https://bit.ly/2MgCpLd
Who is a peer? 👥 A peer is someone who is there to help you when you're down. A group of 20 community partners came together as PEERS Network to figure out how to better support people who sleep in public. Leveraging on each other's strengths, they were able to reach out a hand to rough sleepers, offer them a safe place to rest, and help them find assistance to get back on their feet. Go PEERS Network!
➡️Read the story of how they came to be on Minister Desmond Lee's Facebook post: https://bit.ly/2MgCpLd
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Desmond Lee
<<Partnerships make a difference>> We first met a group of these passionate volunteers in late 2017. Each of them, in their own community groups, have been going around different parts of Singapore...
Welcome to another episode of MSF’s Must Share Fridays! Today’s topic will be about moving towards 🏃♀️🏃♂️a more inclusive💞 Singapore 🇸🇬
👩🏻💼👨🏻💼Enabling Employees Awards Ceremony
Nick Vujicic, a motivational speaker born with tetra-amelia syndrome, a rare disorder which causes the absence of arms and legs once said, “I’m officially disabled, but I’m truly enabled because of my lack of limbs. My unique challenges have opened up unique opportunities to reach so many in need”👫👭👬
By giving a place for those with disabilities in the workplace, we enable them and ourselves too, because of the different abilities they bring. 🏋🏻♀️⛹🏻♂️🚴🏻♂️
In this spirit, SG Enable held its biennial Enabling Employers Awards Ceremony 🏆 this evening to celebrate the achievements of outstanding ⭐️ employers and individuals that support employees with disabilities at the workplace 🏢
Let’s emulate SG Enable’s vision 👀 of ‘Inclusive Society, Enabled Lives’ ❤️and make our workplaces welcoming for all.
➡️Read more
https://employment.sgenable.sg/employers/open-door-programme/
🏠🛏 Rough Sleepers
When night falls, we return to warm beds 🛏and hot meals 🍲 in the comfort of our homes 🏘. But what about the homeless? Yesterday we shared about the PEERS Network.
➡️Watch them in action:
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/housing-the-homeless-in-singapore-video-11754242
🎟🎪 Must Share Fun-things
FFL National Day picnic 🇸🇬🏖
August is nearing! Which means...National Day! 🇸🇬🇸🇬🇸🇬Fireworks! 🎇 Pack your picnic baskets, 🥪 and come join us with your family 👨👩👧👦 at the Families for Life National Day Picnic @ Marina Barrage! There will be fun-filled National Day themed activities such as Acrobatic Kite Performance, Large Kite Flying Display, FFL Photobooth, Zumba exercise and live music performances.🎸🎼🎷🎤
👉🏼Date: 3 August, 2019 Sat
👉🏼Time: 3:30pm-8:30pm
👉🏼Venue: Marina Barrage
👠🥼Dress Code: Red and/or White
<Free Admission, registration required>
➡️Register here: www.familiesforlife.sg/unite-at-an-event/Pages/Families-for-Life-National-Day-Picnic-Marina-barrage.aspx
🌾💐 Creative Conversations: Scent of Spices
Calling all parents! 👨👩👧👦👨👩👦👦 Take your children out on an exciting outdoor learning adventure around Singapore! 🇸🇬 Developed with early childhood development in mind, Creative Conversations: The Scent of Spices (parents’ edition) is an outdoor learning👣 resource kit 🌞 curated for families to create engaging outdoor learning experiences for children. Let Professor Alvis, archaeologist🕵🏻♂️ and foodie 👨🏻🌾take you and your child 👨👩👧👦 on a sensorial journey 🗺 to heritage spots in Singapore like Fort Canning Park where you will discover spices🎋, herbs 🍄 and plants 🌱 But…that’s not all!
Using your newfound knowledge 🤓 whip up delicious meals 🍽with the recipe book 📕 included in the resource kit. 🗂
This resource kit is initiated by the Early Childhood Development Agency (ECDA), in partnership with National Library Board (NLB), National Museum of Singapore (NMS), so you’re in for a treat! 🙌🏼
➡️ Download the resource kit: <go.gov.sg/thescentofspices>
👩🏻💼👨🏻💼Enabling Employees Awards Ceremony
Nick Vujicic, a motivational speaker born with tetra-amelia syndrome, a rare disorder which causes the absence of arms and legs once said, “I’m officially disabled, but I’m truly enabled because of my lack of limbs. My unique challenges have opened up unique opportunities to reach so many in need”👫👭👬
By giving a place for those with disabilities in the workplace, we enable them and ourselves too, because of the different abilities they bring. 🏋🏻♀️⛹🏻♂️🚴🏻♂️
In this spirit, SG Enable held its biennial Enabling Employers Awards Ceremony 🏆 this evening to celebrate the achievements of outstanding ⭐️ employers and individuals that support employees with disabilities at the workplace 🏢
Let’s emulate SG Enable’s vision 👀 of ‘Inclusive Society, Enabled Lives’ ❤️and make our workplaces welcoming for all.
➡️Read more
https://employment.sgenable.sg/employers/open-door-programme/
🏠🛏 Rough Sleepers
When night falls, we return to warm beds 🛏and hot meals 🍲 in the comfort of our homes 🏘. But what about the homeless? Yesterday we shared about the PEERS Network.
➡️Watch them in action:
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/housing-the-homeless-in-singapore-video-11754242
🎟🎪 Must Share Fun-things
FFL National Day picnic 🇸🇬🏖
August is nearing! Which means...National Day! 🇸🇬🇸🇬🇸🇬Fireworks! 🎇 Pack your picnic baskets, 🥪 and come join us with your family 👨👩👧👦 at the Families for Life National Day Picnic @ Marina Barrage! There will be fun-filled National Day themed activities such as Acrobatic Kite Performance, Large Kite Flying Display, FFL Photobooth, Zumba exercise and live music performances.🎸🎼🎷🎤
👉🏼Date: 3 August, 2019 Sat
👉🏼Time: 3:30pm-8:30pm
👉🏼Venue: Marina Barrage
👠🥼Dress Code: Red and/or White
<Free Admission, registration required>
➡️Register here: www.familiesforlife.sg/unite-at-an-event/Pages/Families-for-Life-National-Day-Picnic-Marina-barrage.aspx
🌾💐 Creative Conversations: Scent of Spices
Calling all parents! 👨👩👧👦👨👩👦👦 Take your children out on an exciting outdoor learning adventure around Singapore! 🇸🇬 Developed with early childhood development in mind, Creative Conversations: The Scent of Spices (parents’ edition) is an outdoor learning👣 resource kit 🌞 curated for families to create engaging outdoor learning experiences for children. Let Professor Alvis, archaeologist🕵🏻♂️ and foodie 👨🏻🌾take you and your child 👨👩👧👦 on a sensorial journey 🗺 to heritage spots in Singapore like Fort Canning Park where you will discover spices🎋, herbs 🍄 and plants 🌱 But…that’s not all!
Using your newfound knowledge 🤓 whip up delicious meals 🍽with the recipe book 📕 included in the resource kit. 🗂
This resource kit is initiated by the Early Childhood Development Agency (ECDA), in partnership with National Library Board (NLB), National Museum of Singapore (NMS), so you’re in for a treat! 🙌🏼
➡️ Download the resource kit: <go.gov.sg/thescentofspices>
SG Enable
Get Funding and Support | SG Enable
ComCare LTA (Long Term Assistance)
We want to ensure that those who need help, will get help, and be able to live a fulfilling and independent life. #SGCares ❤️ #inclusivesociety #ONESingapore 🇸🇬
So we have reviewed 📝 our ComCare LTA scheme and made the following changes:
✅ More monthly 💰 assistance
👉🏼 One person 👵🏼 LTA households will receive $600/month, up from $500.
👉🏼Two person 👵🏼👴🏼 LTA households will receive an increased cash assistance of $870-$1000.
✅ Easier to apply for financial help
👉🏼Beneficiaries no longer have to be assessed separately for Medifund when they visit public healthcare institutions like hospitals and polyclinics. 🏪
👉🏼Just show the LTA card 💳 or commonly known as the Public Assistance card), and 🆓 medical treatment will be provided!
64-year old Mdm Habibah Binte Hamdi is one such beneficiary of the increased cash assistance. She continues to live a fulfilling and independent life 🧹🛀🍳despite her disability. 🙌🏼
➡️ Read Mdm Habibah’s story here:
https://wordpress.com/post/msfcaresblog.com/1308
We want to ensure that those who need help, will get help, and be able to live a fulfilling and independent life. #SGCares ❤️ #inclusivesociety #ONESingapore 🇸🇬
So we have reviewed 📝 our ComCare LTA scheme and made the following changes:
✅ More monthly 💰 assistance
👉🏼 One person 👵🏼 LTA households will receive $600/month, up from $500.
👉🏼Two person 👵🏼👴🏼 LTA households will receive an increased cash assistance of $870-$1000.
✅ Easier to apply for financial help
👉🏼Beneficiaries no longer have to be assessed separately for Medifund when they visit public healthcare institutions like hospitals and polyclinics. 🏪
👉🏼Just show the LTA card 💳 or commonly known as the Public Assistance card), and 🆓 medical treatment will be provided!
64-year old Mdm Habibah Binte Hamdi is one such beneficiary of the increased cash assistance. She continues to live a fulfilling and independent life 🧹🛀🍳despite her disability. 🙌🏼
➡️ Read Mdm Habibah’s story here:
https://wordpress.com/post/msfcaresblog.com/1308
It’s MSF’s #MustShareFridays! 🥳🙌🏼 In the spirit of National Day, 🇸🇬🇸🇬🇸🇬 we will be sharing some nation-wide 🌎community events that all are welcome to join. #ONESingapore
Transforming communities with a little kindness 💕🏘
See 👀 how a community can be transformed by you contributing and volunteering.
There’s only 1 thing 2 do (Join MSF as a volunteer), 3 ways to contribute! 🎵🎶
1. SGCares Networks 🇸🇬 💞
A series of large-scale community networking across all 24 HDB neighbourhoods 🏨 which has brought together 3500 partners 🤝 from VWOs, schools, hospitals and religious organisations!
👉🏼 Join as a volunteer to design programmes, engage community partners, be a facilitator and co-create solutions with stakeholders for community needs!
2. PEERS Network 👥👨🏻✈️
Partners Engaging and Empowering Rough Sleepers (PEERS) 🛏 was formed by a group of 20 community partners, to figure out how to better support homeless people.
👉🏼Join as a volunteer with our community partners, to get the homeless off the streets 🛣 and rebuild their lives.
3. KidSTART 👶🏻🧩
Love interacting with kids? 👧🏻👦🏻 Join KidSTART 🧩 a programme that enables children from low-income to have a good start in life.
👉🏼You can help by reading 📖 to children 👶🏻, organizing activities and games🤹🏽♀️, and logistics during family excursions & events. As a friend of KidSTART, you will receive basic training 🧸on how to interact and engage young children and their families.
➡️ Register your interest in any of the 3 areas here: http://bit.ly/31dlwVQ
Starting August on the right foot 🦶🏼 🎉
August is an eventful month! This Sunday, Community Chest will be holding the Community Chest Heartstrings Walk 💞 🚶🏻♀️in conjunction with Marina Bay Sands.
2019 is our Bicentennial and as Singapore reflects on her founding 200 years ago, this year’s walk 🚶🏻♀️🚶🏻♂️brings together the whole Singapore 🇸🇬community. Share and Care together with partners, volunteers and social service users.
Let’s come together as a Family! 👨👩👧👦 All are invited to the Carnival 🎡 at the Community Chest Heartstrings Walk 2019. Details below:
👉🏼Date: Sunday 4 Aug 2019
👉🏼Venue: Marina Bay Sands
👉🏼Activities:
🚶🏻♀️Fun Walk: Flag off at 6:30am
🎪Family Carnival: 9am-11am
➡️More details here:
https://www.comchest.sg/Campaigns-and-Events/ComChest-Signature-Events/Community-Chest-Heartstrings-Walk-2019/Home.aspx
Ending off on a healthy note…📝
Why should we be healthy❓🤷🏻♀️
Because...a better physique 💪🏼 mental alertness 🧠 reduced risk of diseases 🧘🏻♂️, and a happier life 😇 the benefits are endless!
So with the inter-agency taskforce, HealthySG, we can better tie in efforts from across the ministries and the whole country – to infuse health ❤️ in all aspects of life.
Studies show that poor 👎🏼 health 🤒 is the main obstacle preventing people from finding and sustaining a job. Thus, we will work 🤝 with HPB to pilot this HealthySG Support Programme to the low income families 👨👩👧👦 from our kidSTART 🧩 programme.
HPB will tailor interactive activities like grocery shopping tours 🧀🥩, hawker food trails 🍜🍛and workshops 👩🏻🏫 to educate parents to make better food choices.
Very soon, Singaporeans will be able to get a healthy living ‘passport’ to travel 🧳 to these health stations 🚉 (e.g cooking class and nutrition workshops)
Stay tuned 📺 to this channel for more updates! In the meantime, remember to eat 🥗🍎🥕and live healthy! 🏊🏼♂️⛹🏻♀️🤾🏻♂️
Transforming communities with a little kindness 💕🏘
See 👀 how a community can be transformed by you contributing and volunteering.
There’s only 1 thing 2 do (Join MSF as a volunteer), 3 ways to contribute! 🎵🎶
1. SGCares Networks 🇸🇬 💞
A series of large-scale community networking across all 24 HDB neighbourhoods 🏨 which has brought together 3500 partners 🤝 from VWOs, schools, hospitals and religious organisations!
👉🏼 Join as a volunteer to design programmes, engage community partners, be a facilitator and co-create solutions with stakeholders for community needs!
2. PEERS Network 👥👨🏻✈️
Partners Engaging and Empowering Rough Sleepers (PEERS) 🛏 was formed by a group of 20 community partners, to figure out how to better support homeless people.
👉🏼Join as a volunteer with our community partners, to get the homeless off the streets 🛣 and rebuild their lives.
3. KidSTART 👶🏻🧩
Love interacting with kids? 👧🏻👦🏻 Join KidSTART 🧩 a programme that enables children from low-income to have a good start in life.
👉🏼You can help by reading 📖 to children 👶🏻, organizing activities and games🤹🏽♀️, and logistics during family excursions & events. As a friend of KidSTART, you will receive basic training 🧸on how to interact and engage young children and their families.
➡️ Register your interest in any of the 3 areas here: http://bit.ly/31dlwVQ
Starting August on the right foot 🦶🏼 🎉
August is an eventful month! This Sunday, Community Chest will be holding the Community Chest Heartstrings Walk 💞 🚶🏻♀️in conjunction with Marina Bay Sands.
2019 is our Bicentennial and as Singapore reflects on her founding 200 years ago, this year’s walk 🚶🏻♀️🚶🏻♂️brings together the whole Singapore 🇸🇬community. Share and Care together with partners, volunteers and social service users.
Let’s come together as a Family! 👨👩👧👦 All are invited to the Carnival 🎡 at the Community Chest Heartstrings Walk 2019. Details below:
👉🏼Date: Sunday 4 Aug 2019
👉🏼Venue: Marina Bay Sands
👉🏼Activities:
🚶🏻♀️Fun Walk: Flag off at 6:30am
🎪Family Carnival: 9am-11am
➡️More details here:
https://www.comchest.sg/Campaigns-and-Events/ComChest-Signature-Events/Community-Chest-Heartstrings-Walk-2019/Home.aspx
Ending off on a healthy note…📝
Why should we be healthy❓🤷🏻♀️
Because...a better physique 💪🏼 mental alertness 🧠 reduced risk of diseases 🧘🏻♂️, and a happier life 😇 the benefits are endless!
So with the inter-agency taskforce, HealthySG, we can better tie in efforts from across the ministries and the whole country – to infuse health ❤️ in all aspects of life.
Studies show that poor 👎🏼 health 🤒 is the main obstacle preventing people from finding and sustaining a job. Thus, we will work 🤝 with HPB to pilot this HealthySG Support Programme to the low income families 👨👩👧👦 from our kidSTART 🧩 programme.
HPB will tailor interactive activities like grocery shopping tours 🧀🥩, hawker food trails 🍜🍛and workshops 👩🏻🏫 to educate parents to make better food choices.
Very soon, Singaporeans will be able to get a healthy living ‘passport’ to travel 🧳 to these health stations 🚉 (e.g cooking class and nutrition workshops)
Stay tuned 📺 to this channel for more updates! In the meantime, remember to eat 🥗🍎🥕and live healthy! 🏊🏼♂️⛹🏻♀️🤾🏻♂️
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Looking out for our young ones 👀🧒🏻
The Children and Young Persons Act (CYPA) 📑 first enacted in 1949 and last amended in 2011 – provides for the welfare, care, protection and rehabilitation of children under 16.
Today, Minister for Social and Family Development, Mr Desmond Lee introduced a Bill to amend 📝the CYPA in Parliament. The new amendments aim to provide a better environment 🏡for children to grow up well and safely. ☺️
1) Foster parents to have Childcare Leave Benefits. 👨👩👧👦🤱🏻
Currently, working foster parents have to take their own leave to care for their foster children. Under this new Bill, these foster parents will have more time and flexibility to care for their wards.
2) Starting anew, on a clean slate 👣
Mistakes made in one’s folly should not affect one’s future. Hence, a youth’s criminal record will be deemed to be spent when he/she successfully completes specific Youth Court orders so that ex-offenders who wish to turn over a new leaf 🍃can put their past behind them without a criminal record. The child’s identity and privacy is also protected 🔑 as long as no further offence is committed when he/she is older.
➡️Visit MSF website at https://www.msf.gov.sg/media-room/Pages/Stronger-Support-for-Children-in-Need-of-Protection-and-Rehabilitation-.aspx
➡️Or read more about the CYPA Amendment Bill here:
The Children and Young Persons Act (CYPA) 📑 first enacted in 1949 and last amended in 2011 – provides for the welfare, care, protection and rehabilitation of children under 16.
Today, Minister for Social and Family Development, Mr Desmond Lee introduced a Bill to amend 📝the CYPA in Parliament. The new amendments aim to provide a better environment 🏡for children to grow up well and safely. ☺️
1) Foster parents to have Childcare Leave Benefits. 👨👩👧👦🤱🏻
Currently, working foster parents have to take their own leave to care for their foster children. Under this new Bill, these foster parents will have more time and flexibility to care for their wards.
2) Starting anew, on a clean slate 👣
Mistakes made in one’s folly should not affect one’s future. Hence, a youth’s criminal record will be deemed to be spent when he/she successfully completes specific Youth Court orders so that ex-offenders who wish to turn over a new leaf 🍃can put their past behind them without a criminal record. The child’s identity and privacy is also protected 🔑 as long as no further offence is committed when he/she is older.
➡️Visit MSF website at https://www.msf.gov.sg/media-room/Pages/Stronger-Support-for-Children-in-Need-of-Protection-and-Rehabilitation-.aspx
➡️Or read more about the CYPA Amendment Bill here:
Happy National Day everyone! 🇸🇬🎂Before we bring you today’s #MustShareFridays, let’s do a very relatable QUIZ! #throwbackprimaryschool. Only one question, so please get this correct! ✅