What is Family Care Ministry?
When someone enters the prison system, his or her family is not spared either. In the midst of struggling to handle this reality, the inmates’ spouses, parents or children are often trapped or labelled with shame and societal stigmas. They also often battle with loneliness, unfamiliarity, loss, and anxiety.
Our goal is to love, support and bring freedom to these families with the help of churches nationwide and work with organisations and volunteers to break the generational cycle of offence.
Our Programmes
Through programmes designed to help the affected adults, youth and children, we hope to assist in the strengthening of the family unit and providing an environment that is conducive for reconciliation of inmates and ex-offenders with their families, and their re-integration into society.
Visitations
Individuals or small groups of volunteers form relationships with families, providing emotion and social support through visitations. Some may also accompany elderly beneficiaries to appointments if they have difficulty moving around.
Care Club
We empower children and youths by surrounding them with a caring community in Care Club, where volunteers befriend & mentor them through one-to-one tuition, counselling, games, art and music. Special outings and family bonding activities are also school holiday highlights.
Ad-hoc Events
While taking note of families’ needs, volunteers connect regularly with PFS, link families to social service agencies for assistance and may also welcome and assimilate them into their home churches.
As of 2023, we are helping
113
Families
73
Youths & Children