Singapore, Singapore
Work doesn't feel like work when we are driven by a genuine care for our clients to do our best for them every day. I am deeply passionate about direct social work and our clients, especially communities at the margins of society. Instead of being involved in pure indirect practice, I am grateful for the postgraduate policy background and the new perspectives it brings to enhance how we can better work together with our clients. With 7 years of my own lived experience, disability social work, advocacy and volunteering have a special importance to me. Along with prior experience in criminal justice social work, and the various causes/marginalized communities I have volunteered with - I've always believed that if it is a cause that matters to oneself, then it is a cause that needs getting down on the ground to.
Provide employment assistance and holistic case management to clients (caseload of ~30 active) on and after Community Based Programme (CBP) of their prison sentences Collaborate with various stakeholders and helping professionals to achieve best possible reintegration for our clients Perform staff work duties such as policy analysis, programme development & evaluation, where assigned for the division
Research Assistant with Department of Sociology, NUS. Co-author credit on "Gender Inequality and Subjective Well-Being Amongst Professional Women in East and Southeast Asia: A Study of Eight Societies" – published in Asian Population Studies (2024) - https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17441730.2024.2348929
Second Social Work field placement, working on youth social work including group work programmes, outreach and publications.
First Social Work field placement, working with school social work for student wellbeing.