Prison Support Services Children's & Teen's Session Volunteers
Date and time (Only on Saturdays)
29 September 2018
1230pm to 430pm
Commitment Level / Day / Time:
- Regular
- Adhoc
- Weekend
- Able to help out for at least 2 sessions
356 Tanglin Road Singapore 247674
Vol Requirements:
- At least 21 years old
- Able to help out for at least 2 sessions
- Likes interacting with children and/or teens; proactive in engaging participation and possesses good communication skills.
- Experience with working with children and/or teens an advantage
- Basic group facilitation skills an advantage
- Able to attend volunteer briefing prior 30 mins before the session
- Outgoing and friendly personality
- Indoor assignment (air-conditioned)
- 60 volunteers
- Individual, Corporate, Group & Family Volunteers Welcome
- Please email to volunteer@SMM.salvationarmy.org to request for an application form.
- Kindly give us at least 7 working days to process your registration.
Contact Person (for Clarifications):
About the Programme
The Salvation Army's PSS-KIP (Prison Support Services - Kids in Play) is an outreach programme that reaches out to inmates and their families. It also seeks to support amendable ex-offenders in facilitating the reintegration into the community and their families through aftercare programmes.
PSS offers practical help, befriending to children and teens and provides intensive support to primary caregivers/remaining parent to manage their financial, emotional and related challenges and situations. These include, but is not limited to:
- counseling sessions to build on the relationship and support for each other within the family,
- topical support groups for children and teens e.g. bullying, separation & anxiety, crime, stigma etc, to inculcate values to help them cope more effectively and foster a stronger bond with their incarcerated parent/s.
- meaningful activities e.g family outings, family camps etc
The sessions are held on Saturdays. Each session will see about 100-120 children and teens participating.
About the Role
Volunteers will help to chaperon, facilitate and encourage the beneficiaries to participate in the activities planned for them. The activities may include games, song & dance and/or art & craft.
You would be glad to know that you would have played an important part in changing lives; partnering our staff to support the children, teens and the spouse during this difficult period. This will ultimately help in building the relationship of the family and with the reintegration of amendable ex-offenders into the community.
