Adopted Homes and Visit Schedule

These are the homes we visit on a month basis; click each home for details. A summary of our visit schedule is set out in the table below.

-     Asian Women's Welfare Association Special School for Children (AWWA)

-     Bishan Home for the Intellectually Disabled (BHID)

-     Bethany Methodist Nursing Home (BMNH)

-     Institute of Mental Health - Woodbridge Hospital (IMH)

-     MINDSville @ Napiri (MINDSville)

-     Sunshine Welfare Action Mission Home (SWAMI)

-     Thong Teck Home for Senior Citizens (TTHSC)

* Exception: During the months in which the 1st falls on a Sunday, the IMH visit will be moved to the fourth Sunday of the month. Please see the list of next visits for confirmation of visit dates.

Asian Womens' Welfare Association Special School for Children
No. 9 Lorong Napiri, Singapore 547531

Tel: 6511 5200 Fax: 6489 0775
http://www.awwa.org.sg

The Asian Women's Welfare Association (AWWA) is a registered voluntary welfare organisation in Singapore and a full member of the National Council of Social Service. We are also an approved Institution of Public Character authorised to receive tax-deductible donations in Singapore. We have been providing services to families, the elderly, children and young people with special needs since 1970.

AWWA provides six services namely, the Educational Services, Elderly Services, Integration Services, Family Services and Caregivers Support with the mission of empowering the disadvantaged in maximising their potential to lead dignified and independent lives.

TDS supports the following programmes for children with special needs under the AWWA Educational and Integration Services.

• AWWA School offers special education to children aged from 7 to 18 years (e.g. challenging behaviours, autism spectrum disorder or other special needs - physical disability and cases of children with multiple disability)

• AWWA SMILES Program offers specialised after school care for children with special needs from 7 to 18 years old. (e.g. therapy, social support etc after school hours ) 

• AWWA Early Years Centre provides early intervention services for infants and children aged below 6 years (e.g. Speech or motor delay or Autism Spectrum Disorder etc) 

These 3 programmes focus on education, therapy (physiotherapy, occupational therapy, speech and music therapy), social work and counselling services, and after school care for children with special needs. 

For more information about TDS visits to this home, please contact:

Team Leader: Valerie Gan
Email: valeriegan@tdspore.org
Mobile: 9731 4837

Bishan Home for the Intellectually Disabled
6 Bishan Street 13, Singapore 579798
Tel: 6353 3515 Fax: 6385 1050

http://welcome.bishanhome.org.sg
Click here for location map

Volunteers of Therapy Dogs, Singapore (TDS) are also strong supporters of GSDC's PAT (pet-assisted therapy) work. We have joined the club's PAT visits to Bishan Home for the Intellectually Disabled (BHID) since their adoption of the home in December 2002.

BHID has some 130 residents under the care of highly-motivated staff in a well-organised environment. It also has facilities to cater for daycare clients. GSDC's PAT work at BHID has been featured in Channel NewsAsia's Creature Comforts Series.

For more information about PAT visits to this home, please contact:

Team Leader: Fiona Seow
Email: sfiona@tdspore.org 
Mobile: 9890 8634 

Bethany Methodist Nursing Home (BMNH)
9 Choa Chu Kang Ave 4
Singapore 689815

http://cms.mws.org.sg/content/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=16

Bethany Methodist Nursing Home is a registered charity managed by the Methodist Welfare Services, with 303 beds within 5 wards and a rehabilitation centre. Focussing on providing quality residential nursing care, it provides services such as residential care, respite care, physiotherapy and occupational therapy, speech therapy.

For more information about PAT visits to this home, please contact:

Team Leader: 

Email: jodele_goh@yahoo.com.sg and  lohweichin@tdspore.org

Mobile: 9648 9867 and 9829 7260

Institute of Mental Health
10 Buangkok View, Singapore 539747
Tel: 6389 2000 Fax: 6385 1050

http://www.imh.com.sg

The corporate tagline "Loving Hearts, Beautiful Minds" encapsulates the loving hearts of staff at IMH/WH that care for the patients at IMH. The compassion and loving hearts of the medical professionals, care givers, volunteers and admin staff who empathizes with patients' mental illness and the ability to embrace their beautiful minds is our belief in providing affordable quality health care at all times

IMH / WH is a 2,425- bed acute tertiary psychiatric hospital located in a sprawling 37-hectare campus in Buangkok View. Set in a serene environment and well designed landscape, IMH is equipped with modern facilities to look after its close to 1900 psychiatric inpatients.

IMH/WH offers a multi-faceted and comprehensive range of psychiatric services targeted to meet the special needs of three groups of people, namely, (i) Children & adolescents, (ii) Adults and (iii) the Elderly. For the treatment of more specific disorders, there are sub specialty clinics such as the Mood and Anxiety Clinic, Eating Disorders Clinic, Psychotherapy Clinic, Sleep Disorder Clinic and the Sexual Dysfunction Clinic.
Volunteers are a valued source of support and strength to the patients at our hospital. We value the visits, help and support of volunteers and visitors. Besides adding a bright ray of hope and sunshine to our patients' daily lives as you bring them kindness through your loving hearts, you will find this an enriching and rewarding exercise adding meaning and fulfillment when you care for their beautiful minds.

For more information about PAT visits to this home, please contact:

Team Leader: Shen Lishan
Email: leonnie_s@hotmail.com
Mobile: 9430 8857

MindSville @ Napiri
7 Lorong Napiri, Singapore 547533
Tel:  6387 7662 Fax: 6387 3357

http://www.minds.org.sg

MINDSville@Napiri seeks to adopt a training and developmental model, focusing on acquisition of daily living skills and self-empowerment of persons with intellectual disability. We also aim to offer activities that address the physical, social, emotional and cognitive needs of our clients, supporting them in developing their potential and reintegration into their families and the community.

We provide the following residential programmes:

1.    Home For Adults With Intellectual Disability

This programme provides accommodation, care, supervision and rehabilitation for
persons with intellectual disability, age 19 and above.

2.    Hostel/Group Home For Adults With Intellectual Disability
This programme runs a Hostel for individuals with intellectual disability, age 19 and above and who have low support needs. It is suitable for persons who are fairly competent in basic self-care activities and have potential to learn to travel independently.
The Group Home seeks to train persons with intellectual disability who have the
potential to live independently in the community setting.

3.    Children's Wing
This sector provides accommodation, care and protection to children with intellectual disability, aged between 6 to 18.

At MINDSville@Napiri, we also operate a community-based programme at the Training and Development Centre which is MINDS' third Training and Development Centre. This is a day training programme which clients attend the centre from 9am to 4:30pm (only on weekdays) for training and after which they will return to their families. This programme aims to enhance trainees' quality of life through development and maintenance of daily living skills and development of their potentials.

For more information about TDS visits to this home, please contact:

Team Leader: Valerie Gan
Email: valeriegan@tdspore.org
Mobile: 9731 4837