ANNUAL REPORT 2010 / 2011 - MINDS

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ORGANISATION CHART CONRAD CAMPOS President – Executive Committee Sub Committees: KEH ENG SONG Chief Executive Officer • CONRAD CAMPOS, Chairman & Supervisor - School Management (SMC) • GABRIEL LIM, Chairman -Social Enterprise & Employment Development (SEED) • ROGER LOH, Chairman - Residential & Training Development Services (RTDS) • AUGUSTIN LEE, Chairman – Allied Health Professionals (AHP) Services • KENNETH CHUA, Chairman - Finance and Investment • LIM JUN HAN, Chairman – Audit • MANOJIT SEN, Chairman - Human Resource • ONG WEE GEE, Chairman – IT • CHNG HO KIAT, Chairman - Volunteer & Donor Management • BOO CHONG HAN, Chairman - Public Relations, Education & Communications • LIM YEOW KHEE, Chairman - Building & Facilities • JEFFREY TAN, Chairman - Membership • MIMI TAN, Chairman - MINDS CSG • GERALD NG, Chairman – MINDS MYG SPECIAL SCHOOLS CHIA POH HONG Director, Schools & Head, Curriculum Development Unit Principals: ANTHONY TAN Fernvale Gardens SHARON NG Lee Kong Chian Gardens JOSEPHINE ONG Towner Gardens SUZANA SOO Woodlands Gardens SOCIAL ENTERPRISE & EMPLOYMENT DEVELOPMENT CENTRES CHAO YE PENG Director, Social Enterprises Senior Managers: PREMA THEVARAJAH SIA-MINDS EDC NG REI NA Social Enterprises Managers: STEPHEN SHI Idea EDC NG MUN WAI Woodlands EDC LEROY LEE Social Enterprises RESIDENTIAL, TRAINING & DEVELOPMENT SERVICES 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 ALLIED HEALTH PROFESSIONALS (AHP) SERVICES Director, KOH GEE MAY FINANCE Director, LAI AUN LENG Accountant, DAVID CHAN Accountant, SIA SIEW LAN HR & ADMIN Director, JEANNIE HO Manager, YUEN LYE YONG FACILITIES/PROCUREMENT Manager, TERENCE WONG IT Administrator, CHIA SIEW TONG VOLUNTEER AND DONOR MANAGEMENT Manager, ROSALINE CHEE CORPORATE COMMUNICATIONS Executive, BRENDA LEE CHRISTOPHER JAP Internal Auditor
PRESIDENT’S REVIEW In recognition of the success of the Community Group Home project, MINDS was awarded the NCSS Outstanding VWO Award 2010 – Special Mention in Innovation, during the NCSS Members Conference in 2010. With the success of the Community Group Home, there is now greater impetus to provide a range of residential options for special needs persons. We thank the residents of the local community for accepting our clients into their midst. Open Employment and Productive Work As at March 2011, a total of 36 clients have been placed in open employment at hotels, fast food restaurants, warehouses and leisure outlets under the Job Placement and Job Support Program (JPJS) Programme, and more than 80% of them were able to maintain their employment for at least 6 months. In addition, 41 clients and 16 of our staff successfully completed the WDA’s WSQ Food Hygiene course. The year under review has been a fruitful year as we made incremental and concrete strides towards increasing the capacity of our Training and Development Centre (TDC) services, improving the employment opportunities for our adult clients in both open employment and sheltered environments, enhancing our professional knowledge and expertise to raise the quality of our services, improving how we engage our stakeholders, and last but not least, building management leadership, developing talent and nurturing a culture of passion for service. A Fourth TDC After a fairly extensive period of advocacy and consultation, the Ministry of Community Development Youth & Sports (MCYS) has granted our appeal for a new TDC in view of the long waitlist for day activity services. We are now working with the National Council of Social Service (NCSS) and the Housing Development Board (HDB) to identify a suitable site and are targeting 2012 for the opening of our 4th TDC. We have operated our TDCs as enhanced versions of Day Activity Centres (DACs) to cope with the high support needs of our clients. We are able to do this because of our economies of scale. Based on our projections, more TDCs will be required to meet the demands of our clients with high support needs. We will continue to engage and consult with our funding bodies to meet this demand. Community Group Home goes into operation at Bedok After considerable planning and preparation, 5 of our clients moved into 2 rented flats at Bedok in May 2010 to form the first Community Group Home in Singapore. This provision of a wider range of residential options for special needs persons is a significant milestone in improving the quality of life of special needs persons and a major step towards a more inclusive society. In going operational, our staff, together with the local Residents Committee, worked hard to create understanding and acceptance of the Community Group Home and our clients within the local community. I am told that having enjoyed the independence of community living, none of the 5 of them could ever imagine going back to living in an institutional home. I am also told that quite a few residents within the local community have come forward to befriend our clients and to volunteer their assistance. For many years, our sheltered workshops and social enterprises have been providing productive work for our adult clients. The recycling of headsets for Singapore Airlines and Singapore Airport Terminal Services has been and will continue to be a mainstay of productive work at our sheltered workshops. Our social enterprise units, MINDS Shop, MINDS Food, MINDS Perform, MINDS Craft and MINDS Wash also have provided a varied range of productive work beneficial to our clients. Over the year, we have built upon these viable platforms for productive work. Building a social enterprise to meet the needs of our clients is by any reckoning a challenging task. I am nevertheless confident that the work we have done over the year will yield results in the near future. Celebrating Caregivers, Families and Volunteers The combined MINDS Caregivers Support Group annual party and MINDS MYG family day saw the largest turnout of nearly 1,000 caregivers, family members, clients and volunteers on 5 March 2011 at the Toa Payoh Community Club. It was heartening to see families and volunteers come together for a day of fun and friendship. Over the course of the year in review, each of the schools and adult centres conducted a range of activities for families and volunteers. We also improved our channels of communication with caregivers and volunteers. This included a revamp of our MINDS website at www.minds.org.sg and the revamp of MINDSpeak, which I believe better reflect the vibrancy, colour and potential of our clients, and the dedication, hard work and professionalism of our staff and volunteers. MINDS will continue with its efforts to build capacity and expertise in supporting caregivers, families and volunteers. ‘Schools of Excellence where Every Individual Matters’ That is the Vision Statement which the teachers and allied health professionals at our four schools, led by their Principals, came up with as their Vision Statement. In keeping with that Vision, the schools have in the course of the year been focusing their efforts on enhancing the quality of their services both at the macro and individual student level. Through a process of self-evaluation, the Schools have been preparing for the Quality Assurance Framework developed by the Ministry of Education (MOE) and NCSS and will be ready when external validation commences later this year or next year. The school curriculum was also further refined and rolled out in MINDS ANNUAL REPORT 2010 / 2011 7
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