New Hope Community Services is a Voluntary Welfare Organization which provides assistance, counseling and training to alleviate difficulties and the suffering of needy individuals and families.

New Hope's Shelter for Displaced Families

This shelter plays an important role in providing evicted families with temporary accommodations while they are given practical assistances to seek long-term housing, relevant referrals, programmes and emotional support through in-house social workers who will work with other relevant agencies.

Having a safe physical accommodation is one of the basic needs of an individual, let alone a family. Thus, this programme serves as an interim solution, enabling the parents/breadwinner to focus their energy and resources on more pressing problems/issues such as seeking employment, looking for a suitable and longer term accommodation etc. In addition, this project seeks to help the families get back on their feet again without having to risk breaking up the family due to the stress and tension that may arise from the circumstances they are in. Hence, the family nucleus would be preserved.

Shelter for Men-in-Crisis

Housing is one of the critical needs for an ex-offender upon his/her release from prison. Some ex-offenders might be rejected by their families for various reasons or do not have a safe and conducive home environment to return to. The Aftercare Residential Programme (ARP) is an alternative form of community-based programme as a temporary form of safe accommodation for ex-offenders while they work out other issues that facilitate their reintegration to the community.

The shelter aims to provide temporary residential services and aftercare support for a period of six months. The programme aims to facilitate the ex-offender to secure long-term accommodation and to be self-reliant in the long run, through the provision of services to support the ex-offender and his/her family and significant others.

Children's Club

This is a programme offered to children aged 5 to 12 years old, from low-income families in the nearby areas, where we teach them positive character traits through the use of interactive and fun materials. This programme is conducted every Sunday at the RC premises from 3pm to 4:30pm. Currently we have about 30 to 40 children in our programme.

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Should you wish to make a donation in support of New Hope Community Services, email yfcreach@gmail.com for more information.

For more information about New Hope Community Services, visit http://www.newhopecs.org.sg/

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