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Understanding service user and sector needs.
Last updated 2 January 2025
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Overview
To address evolving service user and sector needs, NCSS examines relevant topics and trends to provide insights on the landscape, gaps or needs identified, and how these may be addressed through service planning and policy. This encourages positive outcomes for service users, as well as contribute to building a more inclusive, compassionate society where everyone can thrive.
Research studies
Strengthening young offender rehabilitation through mental wellness (2023)
The findings focus on risk and protective factors that affect the mental well-being of youth offenders, as well as relevant recommendations that can be applied to service planning. This is part of the ongoing Enhancing Positive Outcomes in Youth and the Community (EPYC) study.
Public attitudes towards persons with mental health conditions (2021)
The study aims to understand perceptions towards persons with mental health conditions.
Public attitudes towards persons with disabilities (2019)
The study aims to understand perceptions towards persons with disabilities in different community contexts.
Social service sector survey (2021)
Conducted to examine the progress of the sector and identify relevant challenges and opportunities for meeting service users’ needs.
Understanding the intergenerational transmission of criminality in Singapore
A paper from the ongoing Intergenerational Transmission of Criminality and Social Disadvantages (INTRACS+) research programme by MSF and NCSS, which uses a birth cohort study design.
Employment of young people with mental health conditions
The 2020 study aims to understand the meaning of work, and employment barriers and factors perceived by young people with mental health conditions.
Study on demand and factors to overcome barriers to employing persons with mental health conditions
Conducted in 2017, the study looked at the demand and factors to overcome barriers to employing persons with mental health conditions.