ANNUAL REPORT 2010 / 2011 - MINDS

Community Group Home
3 male and 2 female residents moved into the 2 units of Community
Group Home located in Bedok on 10 May 2010. The Community
Group Home was set up to train the residents to live with minimum
support in the community and to enhance their quality of life
through social inclusion and provision of choices. To ensure their
success, support such as regular needs assessments, individual
and group counselling are provided. Smart home technology,
physical accessibility modifications and assistive technology
devices were also installed. The Community Group Home was
featured in an article published by TODAY on 20 Sep 2010 portraying
how the residents had benefited from the project. MINDS was
also awarded the NCSS Outstanding VWO Award 2010 – Special
Mention in Innovation during NCSS Members Conference. Rozana
Bte A Talib, the Community Facilitator responsible for the training
and care of this group of residents has been selected to present
a paper titled “Journey towards Community Living – Challenges,
Lessons Learnt, and Outcomes” in the 20th AFID Conference in
Jeju, Korea in August 2011.
MINDSVILLE@NAPIRI CHILDREN’S WING
Programme Development
The activities and programmes designed for the Children’s Wing
aimed to promote and prepare children with intellectual disability
to re-integrate into their families. All new admissions are assessed
through the “Psychological Adaptive Behaviour” instrument
within 2 months of admission. Based on this assessment and
consultations with the allied health professionals and the child’s
family, individualized care plans (ICPs) are drawn up. The ICPs
include a section on family intervention and are reviewed quarterly
to ensure that the intervention programmes and targeted outcomes
benefit the children. Two contract therapists were also engaged to
provide occupational therapy programmes and to help the children
develop social skills.
An integral part of case managing these young children is to help
their families develop strategies to understand and meet the
children’s needs. Family events are held quarterly to strengthen
family ties and provide a platform for parents to meet and support
one another. Family members are also encouraged to join the
outings and special events organised by MINDS CSG (caregivers
support group) and corporate partners. Allied health professionals
also conducted workshops and siblings’ camp to empower and
support the families and their siblings. Out of the 25 children,
one child successfully re-integrated into his family whilst two
others were transferred to the Hostel for more independent living
arrangements.
Family Involvement, Caregivers' Support and Training
Training programmes conducted by the allied health professional
staff for families and caregivers aimed at enhancing family
relationships and providing them the skills to better manage their
children. Parents also attended several family events (outings,
parties and camps) organised for them. In the caregiver's
satisfaction survey feedback collected in April 2010, majority of the
caregivers gave high ratings on the services provided.
Community Partnership
To build up our community capital, volunteers and professionals
were recruited to support in conducting creative and stimulating
programmes for the clients. MINDSville has an active pool of
corporate and long serving individual volunteers who would come
in regularly to assist in our programmes. Throughout the year, many
activities such as outings and community mobility programmes
were also conducted with the help of the volunteers including
MINDS MYG volunteers. Two memorable and meaningful events
organised by Temasek Holdings together with Special Olympics,
and Standard Chartered Bank saw mass participation of all the
residents and staff.
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