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* '''While EIPIC serves around 3,200 children with mod-severe special needs, waitlists can extend from 6 months to 1 year.''' '''Further, early intervention professionals tend to have high turnover and quick burnout, due to unattractive remuneration compared to the private sector.'''
 
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*Recommendations from EM3 that MSF will consider<ref name=":12">https://www.msf.gov.sg/policies/Disabilities-and-Special-Needs/Documents/Enabling%20Masterplan%203%20(revised%2013%20Jan%202017).pdf</ref>
 
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**Recommendation 3, Strategic Direction 1: Improve transition management
 
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***For newly-diagnosed cases, to set up an agency to provide case referral, care planning and advisory services, and to facilitate smooth handover of information to other agencies
 
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*Rolled out to > 300 preschools, > 2,000 children and families, caa December 2015<ref>https://www.msf.gov.sg/policies/International-Conventions/Documents/Singapore%20CRPD%20Report%20-%20final.pdf</ref>
 
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*Currently serving about 2,600 children<ref>http://lienfoundation.org/sites/default/files/Inclusive%20Survey%20Part%202%20-%20Press%20Release%20Lien%20Fdn%20Final%5B1%5D.pdf</ref>, projected to grow to 3,200 places by 2018<ref>https://www.msf.gov.sg/policies/International-Conventions/Documents/Singapore%20CRPD%20Report%20-%20final.pdf</ref><ref>https://www.msf.gov.sg/media-room/Pages/Clarifications-on-EIPIC.aspx</ref>
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*[https://www.sgenable.sg/pages/content.aspx?path=/schemes/intervention-programmes/enhanced-pilot-for-private-intervention-providers/ Enhanced Pilot for Private Intervention Providers] to subsidise selected Private Intervention Centres
 
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*SPD - Building Bridges @ EIPIC Centres are at Tiong Bahru, Jurong, Tampines & Bedok served a total of 465 children in FY16/17<ref>http://www.spd.org.sg/upload/SPD%20FY1617%20Annual%20Report.pdf</ref> - 41 graduated, 27 progressing to mainstream primary and the rest to SPED
 
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*EIPIC Centres have long waiting lists (up to six months<ref name=":0">National Volunteer and Philanthropy Centre (NVPC). (2017). Issues faced by people with disabilities in Singapore. Retrieved from <nowiki>https://www.nvpc.org.sg/resources/report-on-issues-faced-by-people-with-disabilities-in-singapore</nowiki></ref> or a year<ref name=":1">https://www.todayonline.com/singapore/big-read-special-needs-children-pre-school-not-given-0</ref>)
 
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*Early Intervention Professionals face quick burnout, unattractive salaries/benefits relative to the private sector and shortage of manpower<ref name=":2">Lien Foundation Study on Early Intervention Professionals. http://www.lienfoundation.org/sites/default/files/LF%20Early%20Intervention%20Survey%20Findings.pdf</ref><ref name=":3">https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/survey-unveils-challenges-faced-by-professionals-working-alongside-special-needs-children</ref>
 
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*Long waiting lists at EIPIC Centres - (1) If disproportionately high at certain EIPIC Centres, to educate and counsel parents on their choice of centre or (2) scale up vacancies
 
 
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Latest revision as of 07:54, 2 April 2020


Click on each outcome in the Theory of Change to explore services, gaps and ideas.

To change anything in this page, feel free to contribute directly or to propose revisions and amendments in the Discussion page.

Theory of Change

Short-Term Outcomes(skills, knowledge, attitudes) Mid-Term Outcomes(behaviours) Long-Term Outcomes(impact) Social Impact
Respite care options are accessible to caregivers → Caregivers can easily access respite care → Caregivers are in physical health and psychosocial well-being → Caregivers can sustainably care for disabled care recipients to the best of their capabilities and capacities
Real and perceived barriers to regular self-care are reduced →
Caregivers have informal social support around them →
Caregivers are equipped with information and skills at different steps of the care journey
Caregivers acquire reliable information and training to perform care →
Access to touch points is reasonably accommodated to caregivers' needs → Caregivers can easily access touch points for information and skills
Caregivers do future care planning →
Caregivers can access financial support → Caregivers can bear the financial costs of care
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