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Children, Youth and Families in Need

Unlocking Potential, Nurturing Abilities

At NCSS, we believe that all children and youths, regardless of their abilities, should have the opportunity to maximise their potential. We fund a range of programmes that support children and youth to build self-confidence and nurture positive relationships and behaviours, as well as to develop positive competencies such as personal and social skill development, decision-making, motivation, and life skills.

School-based Programmes

Programmes in the school setting to support, guide and create opportunities for children and youths.

School-based Social Work

The Builders' Project – Lutheran Community Care Services
This programme provides early intervention support to at-risk primary school students. It aims to achieve positive school outcomes and prevent at-risk behaviours by strengthening the socio-emotional competencies of students and fostering an appropriate and conducive school culture for building social capital and discipline.
The Scaffold Programme – Children-At-Risk-Empowerment Association & SHINE Children and Youth Services
The Scaffold Programme provides early intervention support and guidance to at-risk lower secondary school students, fostering positive school affiliation and improving psycho-social wellness. The programme aims to develop resilience and self-regulation while exposing students to positive youth adult figures.
Youth COP – SHINE Children and Youth Services
Youth COP supports students to become active contributors who serve, protect, and care for the community. This programme strives to positively impact school-community-student relations, reduce risk factors, and enhance student growth and adaption, to help them become resilient adults.
Enhanced STEP-UP
Enhanced STEP-UP is a support programme for students at risk of dropping out of school, as well as out-of-school youths. It offers social work services to students with attendance issues, helping them remain in school or engage in meaningful activities such as alternative academic learning, gainful employment, or National Service.

Developmental Programme

Halogen SPARK! – Halogen Foundation Singapore
This programme empowers youths from vulnerable families to build confidence and self-efficacy. It is based on an entrepreneurship curriculum developed by the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship. Through workshops and experiential learning sessions with corporate volunteers, youths acquire fundamental business skills and cultivate entrepreneurial mindsets.

Community-based Programme

Empowering Children and Youths

At NCSS, we believe that every child and youth should have the opportunity to reach their full potential, regardless of their circumstances. Our funded community-based programmes are designed to provide support, guidance, and opportunities to help children and youths thrive.

Developmental Programmes

EQUAL Youth Programme – Equal-ARK Singapore Limited
The EQUAL Youth Programme is a developmental initiative that offers social support to at-risk children and youths. Through equine-facilitated psychotherapy, the programme aims to help them build socio-emotional skills including essential life skills, resilience, and strong habits of mind.
Collective Impact @ Spooner and Bukit Merah – SHINE Children and Youth Services
This innovative project applies Collective Impact principles to uplift the social mobility of children and youth living in rental flats in Spooner Road and Bukit Merah. It aims to provide early intervention for children and youths' development and education to support them to achieve their full potential through casework and counselling, community engagement, and developmental programmes. This is in collaboration and coordination with social service agencies, schools, grassroots organisations, and social service professionals.
Youth United Programme – Beyond Social Services
Operating in five localities, including Bukit Ho Swee, Henderson/Redhill, Lengkok Bahru, Whampoa, and Ang Mo Kio, the Youth United Programme enables and facilitates the community to form a nurturing environment for at-risk children and youths and their families in low-income neighbourhoods. The programme aims to prevent delinquency and other harmful behaviours by providing support and to build resilient communities.

Socio-Legal Support

Vocational and Soft Skills Programmes – YMCA Singapore
The Vocational and Soft Skills Programmes (VaSSP), also known as Project Bridge, equips out-of-school youths and youths at-risk with job competencies and specific vocational skills. The programme aims to develop positive youth competencies and to ensure that youths are meaningfully engaged either in education or employment.
Building Eco-System (BES) – Trybe Limited
BES is an outreach and intervention programme providing career guidance and coaching for youth, aged 16-25, who are not currently studying, in long-term employment, or training.

Learning Support Programmes – Care Corner Learning and Special Needs Support, Epworth Literacy and Behaviour Intervention, SHINE Learning and Social Support Programme

Learning Support Programmes (LSPs) offer specialised learning support services for children with "mild to moderate learning difficulties" who are assessed to be behind their same-aged peers in their literacy and language skills. These programmes enable children to progress from their current abilities, bridging achievement gaps and building essential learning and social skills.

Melrose Care Counselling and Psychotherapy Services – Children's Aid Society
Melrose Care offers cognitive-based therapy, art therapy, play therapy, psychological assessment, and treatment for children, youths, and families in need in the community.

Befriending and Mentoring

Supporting Vulnerable Children and Youths

At NCSS, we believe that every child and youth should have the opportunity to thrive, regardless of their circumstances. Our funded mentoring programmes are designed to provide guidance, support, and friendship to those who may be vulnerable or at risk. In these programmes, dedicated mentors, who are experienced and caring, serve as role models, coaches, friends, and facilitators to help youths transition into adolescence successfully.

Developmental Programmes

FRENZ Mentoring Programme – Persatuan Persuratan Pemuda Pemudi Melayu (4PM)
The FRENZ Mentoring Programme offers early intervention support to ITE students who may be at risk of leaving school prematurely. The programme aims to help these youths achieve positive school outcomes, expose them to positive role models through their mentors, and develop their socio-emotional competencies and resilience.
Experiential Learning and Mentoring Programme (ELMP) – Youth Guidance Outreach Services Ang Mo Kio and Woodlands
ELMP is designed to reach out to youths at-risk, aged between 10 to 19. We provide a safe and accessible centre where they can engage in positive after-school activities based on the principles of Positive Psychology. This programme seeks to empower these youths through befriending, experiential learning and mentoring.
MightyKids, Families and Community (MightyKFC) – Life Community Services Society
MightyKFC is a developmental mentoring programme that nurtures at-risk children and youth, aged 4 to 16, in the Telok Blangah region. Its services include centre-based activities, life skills workshops, interest-based activities, mentoring, parent-child bonding sessions, and case management services.
The GRIT Academy (TGA) – Lakeside Family Services
TGA offers individual mentoring support to youths-at-risk, aged between 11 to 17 years old, who reside or study in schools in Jurong. The programme serves as the primary relationship holder, supporting these youths as they transition to other youth programmes.

Support for Families in Need

Empowering Families for a Brighter Tomorrow

Our services and programmes are dedicated to maintaining and strengthening family bonds during the challenging period of parental incarceration.

Family Strengthening Programme – New Life Stories
This programme offers support to incarcerated parents and their children (aged 3 to 9 at enrolment) to break the cycle of incarceration through early intervention and preventive measures. It places a strong emphasis on early childhood learning, using a combination of in-home activities like reading and parenting engagement, as well as rehabilitative parent-child activities in the care facility. The programme also extends support to the entire family through case management.
Friends of Children & Youth – Life Community Services Society
This programme is designed to help children (aged 6 to 16) develop resilience in the face of parental incarceration. It also focuses on providing support to the caregivers of these children to strengthen their relationships with them and help them cope with the impact of their loved one's incarceration. This is achieved through casework management, befriending and mentoring for the children, group activities, academic support, caregiver support sessions, and family bonding activities.
Kids in Play – The Salvation Army
This programme aims to help children (aged 5 to 18) cope with their parent's incarceration, foster positive parent-child relationships, and provide caregivers with the tools to cope with the impact of incarceration. Families receive support through family-focused work that aims to improve family relationships, case management, and family bonding programme in prison. Children and caregivers are further supported through group work that focuses on empowerment and resilience through positive values within the community.

Ministry of Social and Family Development

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