2009/2010 - MINDS

SERVICE DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE
• To conduct family life education talks to strengthen
family relationships.
• To broaden the spectrum of training programmes
and activities for the aged, the high support need and
clients with challenging behaviours
• To explore team teaching and capitalise upon individual
skills/interests of the staff and volunteers to assist in
training.
• To have a committed resource personnel to look into
training resources and programmes.
• To continue enhancement of staff professional expertise
through relevant training related to adults with special
needs.
RESIDENTIAL SERVICES –
MINDSVILLE@NAPIRI
Clients Muster and Staff Strength as at
31 March 2010
Services Clients Staff
Home 103 65
Hostel / Group Home 52 14
Children’s Wing 22 20
Total 177 99
MILESTONES AND ACHIEVEMENTS
Outcome Management Results
The effectiveness of the Adaptive Daily Living (ADL)
Skills and Community Living Skills (CLS) programmes
implemented in the Home were tracked, residents’
progress and achievements closely monitored and
the results reported to NCSS half yearly. The Hostel/
Group Home tracked the effectiveness of Community
Living Skills (CLS) while the Children’s Wing tracked
the children’s functional independence and ability to
access and use different types of community facilities.
support needs, hence training programmes and
individualised therapies are designed to enhance or
maintain the residents’ gross and fine motor skills, hand
functions, visual perception, balance, co-ordination,
mobility, sensory awareness, and ADL such as feeding,
grooming, dressing and oral hygiene.
Three aged clients with high support need qualified
to participate in the Special Olympics in June 2009
after six months of dedicated training by five volunteer
coaches from Raffles Institution. The efforts paid off
when they won two gold and one bronze medal. A
few wheelchair-bound residents, despite their physical
disabilities, also participated in MINDS 23rd Sports
Meet with the assistance of the staff.
Multi-sensory programmes were implemented for
selected residents especially those with ASD to improve
their sensory awareness and self regulation. Another
intervention, Pet Assisted Therapy (PAT), benefited
both the ambulant and wheelchair-bound residents.
As they interacted with the trained dogs, the residents’
sensory, cognitive, communication and socialisation
skills improved. Based on their needs, residents were
scheduled for individual therapies for positioning,
splinting and training aimed at developing the repertoire
of activity skills, and increase their independence or
at least minimise supervision/prompting for day to
day tasks. Group therapy sessions were organised for
selected residents which involved exploring different
gross and fine motor activities. The residents also learnt
to develop their interaction and socialisation skills in
these sessions.
NCSS On-site Assurance Assessment of MINDSville’s
residential services final report for FY 08/09 confirmed
that the outcome management submissions from April
2008 to March 2009 were verified as accurate and that
we had complied with 100% of the Service Standard
Requirements; had clear and organised Standard
Operating Procedures (SOP) which staff were familiar
with; had a team of cohesive and dedicated staff
that helped each other. Residents’ family members
interviewed were satisfied that staff were approachable
and their needs were attended to promptly.
Programme Development
a) MINDSville - Home
Majority of the Home residents are ageing with high
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