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ORGANISATION CHART Conrad Campos, Chairman & Supervisor -School Mgt Committee Gabriel Lim, Chairman Service Development Committee Kenneth Chua, Chairman Finance and Investment Committee Manojit Sen, Chairman Human Resource Committee Ong Wee Gee, Chairman IT Committee Lim Yeow Khee, Chairman Building & Facilities Chng Ho Kiat, Chairman Volunteer & Donor Mgt Committee Boo Chong Han, Chairman Public Relations, Education & Communications Committee Gerald Ng, Chairman MINDS MYG Mimi Tan, Chairman MINDS CSG Lim Jun Han, Chairman Audit Committee MINDS ORGANISATION CHART Mr Conrad Campos President – Executive Committee Keh Eng Song Chief Executive Officer SPECIAL EDUCATION SCHOOLS EMPLOYMENT DEVELOPMENT SERVICES RESIDENTIAL, TRAINING & DEVELOPMENT SERVICES Chia Poh Hong, Director, Schools & Head, Curriculum Development Unit Principals: - Anthony Tan, Fernvale Gardens - Jenny Alexander, Lee Kong Chian Gardens - Josephine Ng, Towner Gardens - Suzana Soo, Woodlands Gardens Senior Manager - Prema Thevarajah, SIA-MINDS EDC Managers: - Stephen Shi, Idea EDC - Ng Mun Wai, Woodlands EDC - Leroy Lee, Social Enterprise Koh Gee May Director, Residential Training & Development Services MINDSville@Napiri Heads: - Koh Gee May, Home - Rose Kwek, Children’s Wing - Ling Chong Beng, Hostel/Group Home Training & Development Centres Heads: - Rosalyn Peng, Ang Mo Kio TDC - Shafiyah Sarwan, Clementi TDC - Mike Koh, Napiri TDC CORPORATE SERVICES Finance: - Lai Aun Leng, Director - David Chan, Accountant - Sia Siew Lan, Accountant HR & Admin: - Jeannie Ho, Director - Yuan Lye Yong, Manager Facilities/Procurement - Terence Wong, Manager IT - Chia Siew Tong, Administrator Volunteer & Donor Management - Rosalind Chee, Manager Corporate Communications - Desiree Lim, Executive Christopher Jap Internal Auditor Allied Health Services Koh Gee May, Ag Director 4
ANNUAL REPORT 2 0 0 9 / 2 0 1 0 PRESIDENT’S REVIEW PRESIDENT’S REVIEW When the 2009/11 Executive Committee started its term in September 2009, we reviewed and set out the following strategic directions for MINDS over the next two to three years. • Increasing the capacity of our Training & Development Centres (TDCs), including finding alternative solutions for an increasing demand by families of persons with severe intellectual disability for value-added day activity centres. Our three TDCs are currently running at full capacity and we are expecting another 42 students who will need TDC services to graduate from the schools at the end of 2010. There is an urgent need to create additional capacity or find alternative services for these students soon. We continue to provide feedback to and work with the Ministry of Community Development Youth and Sports (MCYS) and the National Council of Social Service (NCSS) towards this end. • Setting up sustainable and scalable Social Enterprises so as to create more job opportunities for our adult clients. With the mean of the age profile of our clients moving beyond 18 years of age, there are more clients than jobs suited for those who need to work in a sheltered environment. More than 100 students graduate from our four schools each year, and the main social enterprise where we recycle SIA or SATS headsets cannot provide sufficient job placements. There is also the threat of technology change that will make this enterprise a twilight one. We thus need to build new social enterprises and build upon our existing ones. We need to manage social enterprises more like businesses than as training centres, with Allied Health Professionals (AHPs) and trainers functioning more as support units. We should hire managers with business experience and across disabilities, including the aged retired. This is a paradigm shift that requires changes in mindsets and processes and will take time. There is however no doubt that we will need to make this change. • Building management, developing talent, nurturing passion. With more than 70% of MINDS’ budget spent on manpower, it is very important that we manage our human resource effectively by building upon the depth and strength of our management and leadership, putting in place a succession plan for all critical functions, improving productivity through training and better processes and tools, attracting, identifying and developing talent, and nurturing the culture of passion, dedication, energy and drive across the organisation. • Building professional knowledge and expertise to raise the quality of services. This will have to start with building the depth, seniority and leadership of our AHPs and reviewing the internal structure and delivery of AHP services to our clients. We want to enhance the knowledge and expertise of our AHPs and teachers so that we become a centre of excellence for intellectual disability. This will also complement the need to prepare for the impending Bill on AHPs that will establish a new regulatory framework for AHPs and Approved Centres. • Better engagement of all our stakeholders. We need to build platforms and programmes to better engage and communicate with members, caregivers and donors, and to attract, manage and retain volunteers. All these stakeholders are critical to meeting our Vision and Mission. If we do it right, we add immeasurably to the delivery of tangible outcomes for our clients and their integration into society. We are making incremental progress in the above areas and we are confident that we can achieve real tangible outcomes from the above strategic thrusts. OUTCOMES AND ACHIEVEMENTS I am pleased to highlight some of the outcomes and achievements for FY2009/20. Official Opening of Woodlands EDC and WGS We were honoured to have Mr Khaw Boon Wan, Minister of Health as our Guest of Honour to grace the opening of Woodlands Gardens School and Woodlands Employment Development Centre on 9 October 2009. The co-location and sharing of common space between the school and workshop significantly maximises resources and reduce transition adjustments. MOE-NCSS Outstanding SPED Teacher Award Two of our teachers, Ms Jenny Lim, Vice Principal of Lee Kong Chian Gardens School, and Ms Ernie Noorhaidah Ahmad, Teacher of Woodlands Gardens School came out tops among the many nominations across all SPED schools in Singapore to win the MOE-NCSS Outstanding SPED Teacher Awards in November 2009. MINDSville@Napiri Thriftshop In November 2009, caregivers Ms Linda Poh and Ms Carolina Chan set up a new thriftshop at MINDSville. This is the first cross-sector collaboration where caregivers, EDC, TDC and the Residential Home come together to contribute their resources to benefit the 5
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