Beyond Parental Control (BPC) Statutory Supervision
Parents can approach the Juvenile Court for help with their children who are deemed beyond their control. The aim of the programme is to provide supervision and guidance to modify the child's behavior and stabilise the family. Under the BPC Order, counsellors and social workers from Children's Society will supervise and counsel the wayward youth for a period of one to three years.
Parents or guardians who take their wayward children or youth to the Juvenile Court may be offered to participate in voluntary casework counselling with Children's Society.
Voluntary casework can be in the form of:
- BPC Pre-complaint Counselling
Consisting of 4 to 8 counselling sessions, the programme attempts to resolve short term problems and provide a clearer assessment of the presenting issue. Pre-complaint counselling is a diversionary programme to keep borderline BPC cases away from the harsh judicial system.
- Beacon Works
The objective of this 6-month diversional rehabilitative programme is to help the youth and families stablise existing behaviour problems that split the cohesiveness of the family unit. The main criteria is voluntary admission into the programme for both parents and child.
Guidance Programme
This six-month counselling and rehabilitative programme is for first time youth offenders of petty offenses. The programme includes individual and family counselling sessions with the youth, parents and family members. School and home visits are also conducted.
Youth Family Care
In partnership with the Juvenile Court, Children's Society recruits, screens, trains and matches volunteer families and parent-couples to act as mentors and befrienders to juvenile delinquents placed into the Juvenile Court System by a mandated order.
Through weekly contacts, the aim of the programme is to allow delinquents to have a normal and healthy relationship with adults who will also act as their emotional support during the one-year term of the order. This one-year social contract is endorsed by the Juvenile Court.
Rainbows
The RAINBOWS programme provides a bridge to emotional healing for children, teenagers and adults facing death, divorce or other significant losses in the family. It is a peer support group and it gives both children and adults a safe place to work through their feelings of grief through group work sessions, activities, games, discussion and journals writing.
The RAINBOWS programme is for children aged between 7 to 12 years, from single parent or stepparent families. SPECTRUM is its parallel programme for youth aged between 13 and 16, and PRISM is for single parents.
Children’s Medical Fund
Working closely with medical social workers of restructured hospitals and agencies, we provide subsidies for treatments and rehabilitative care for chronically ill children. Beneficiaries would include infants, children and adolescents up to 19 years of age. |
