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The Facilitator’s Manual for the SPLAT! DVD Youth Delinquency and Me can be downloaded here.

Youth Delinquency and Me develops an informed awareness and desire in educators and students to actively involve themselves in addressing the concerns and challenges that youths-at-risk and ex-youth offenders face, and deepens their understanding of rehabilitative processes for youth offenders. It comprises reflections by professionals involved in rehabilitative processes and ex-youth offenders. An extract adapted from the life experiences of an ex-youth offender that highlights themes revolving around at-risk behaviour is incorporated into. Our DVD was distributed to all secondary schools in Singapore on 20 Jun 2011.

The Facilitator’s Manual complements our DVD by guiding educators in the facilitation of class discussions and individual reflections. Educators can reproduces copies of the class discussion and reflection sheets for their students.

Lydia Melissa Chan, SPLAT!‘s Team Head of Policies and Plans, said, “The Facilitator’s Manual enhances the value of our DVD as a learning tool. By structuring reflection and guiding discourse, educators and students can better appreciate the behaviours and contributing factors of youth delinquency in Singapore, and the rehabilitative processes that prepare ex-youth offenders to become and remain self-reliant. SPLAT! will continue to explore possibilities that increase the acceptance and offering of second chances to youths-at-risk and ex-youth offenders.”

Dominic Lim, SPLAT!‘s Group Head of Strategic Management and Founder, said, “What began as reflections by rehabilitation officers and ex-youth offenders in 23 secondary schools has evolved into a production that is available and accessible to educators and students in all secondary schools in Singapore and all social service organisations that assist youths-at-risk and youth offenders. The Facilitator’s Manual reflects SPLAT!‘s commitment to multiplying and maximising the returns on social investments in our programmes. I thank and appreciate our volunteers and stakeholders for their conviction, commitment and contributions.”  — SPLAT!

As SPLAT! commences its sixth year of engaging the public to accept and offer second chances to youths-at-risk and ex-youth offenders, we introduce our inaugural tagline “Embracing Risk, Inspiring Change”.

Our tagline encapsulates how SPLAT! embraces the passion and strengths of youths-at-risk and ex-youth offenders, inspiring and igniting their inherent potentials as positive change agents.   We empower volunteers with the attitudes, knowledge and skills integral to serving our community, unlocking vaults of hidden talents to the light and pathways of realization.

With dedication, verve and the hunger to initiate positive societal transformations, our movement builds on the intrinsic bonds shared between youths of all ages and dispositions. SPLAT! connects beneficiaries, volunteers, partners and the public, empowering all members to share our common vision of hope and engagement. In boldly rehabilitating the past, we create the civic communities of Singapore’s future, transforming wastelands of despair into oases of dignity and opportunity.

Dominic Lim, SPLAT!‘s Group Head of Strategic Management and Founder, said, “Our tagline articulates the responsibility and potentials of our community to effect and sustain individual and systemic changes that transform the lives and livelihoods of youths-at-risk, ex-youth offenders and their ecosystem. Every challenge presents opportunities to demolish assumptions and limitations. We embrace the risk inherent in overcoming challenges because we hold dear our first fundamentals that our beneficiaries can and will change in tandem with our community.  We expect and demand nothing less than the very best from our volunteers and those whom we work with because our actions as a community are critical to creating ripples of change and possibilities for our beneficiaries.”

Lydia Melissa Chan, SPLAT!‘s Team Head of Policies and Plans, said, “As SPLAT! continues its mission of inspiring community action to support the rehabilitation and reintegration of youths-at-risk and ex-youth offenders into society, our tagline reminds our volunteers and stakeholders that our beneficiaries are our first fundamentals. We must never shy from risks and challenges that the process of helping them presents. The key elements of our tagline will be incorporated into our Volunteer Management Framework that is being conceptualised and will be implemented in Q3 2012.” — SPLAT! 

Lydia Melissa Chan, SPLAT!‘s Team Head of Programmes, will be appointed as Team Head of Policies and Plans. She will lead our Policies and Plans Team in formulating movement-level policies and plans, developing movement capabilities, analysing developments in service-learning and youth delinquency in Singapore, reviewing stakeholder feedback and assessing risks. A Psychology undergraduate at the National University of Singapore, Lydia holds a leadership appointment at its Tembusu residential college. She was the Chairperson of the SPLAT! Community Action Event What Can I Do? Coordinating Committee and the SPLAT! Call4Artworks Coordinating Committee, and a Member of the SPLAT! DVD Youth Delinquency and Me Coordinating Committee.

Tricia Goh, SPLAT!‘s Team Head of Policies and Plans, will be appointed as Team Head of Programmes. She will lead a Programmes Team in planning and implementing programmes that empower volunteers, youths-at-risk and ex-youth offenders. She is awaiting entry into university and works as a ballet teacher. Tricia was a Member of the SPLAT! DVD Youth Delinquency and Me Coordinating Committee.

All appointments take effect on 03 Oct 2011 (Mon).

41 youths from Dunman Secondary School volunteered at the SPLAT! Community Action Event What Can I Do?, which was held at the Pasir Ris Elias Community Club.  It was graced by our guest-of-honour, Mr Teo Chee Hean, Deputy Prime Minister, Coordinating Minister for National Security and Minister for Home Affairs and our special guest, Mr Zainal Sapari, Member of Parliament for Pasir Ris-Punggol GRC.

What Can I Do? is a combined arts exhibition featuring SPLAT!’s visual art exhibition heARTbeat and our photograph mosaic and handprint wall from our community action event Hands Up, Hands On. Guests were treated to our SPLAT! mocktail, prepared by our volunteers.  Approximately 425 guests participated, where they reflected on artworks from  heARTbeat and penned messages of encouragement for the youths-at-risk and ex-youth offenders.

heARTbeat was the outcome of our Call4Artworks Campaign, which was produced by volunteers from Dunman Secondary School. Our volunteers developed their communication, organizational and publicity skills. They guided guests through our multi-sensory exhibition and invited them to reach out and understand youths-at-risk and ex-youth offenders.

Ms Tai Huay Yi, 14, said, “We learnt about art and public speaking. We also learnt about the strengths that the youths have, which makes me want to do something for the community.”

Lydia Melissa Chan, SPLAT!‘s Team Head of Programmes, said, “We thank our partners and volunteers for giving of their best to better the lives of their fellow man. Such is the spirit of giving that makes us a truly cohesive and inclusive society.”

SPLAT! will continue to engage the public into accepting and offering second chances to youths-at-risk and ex-youth offenders while inspiring community action to support their rehabilitation and reintegration into society. We look forward to the public’s continuing support in our endeavour. — SPLAT!

SPLAT! was invited to Pioneer Junior College’s (PJC) VWO Day to share about our programmes and to recruit volunteers. Students learnt about SPLAT! and indicated their interest in volunteering with us.  In addition, 43 handprints were collected for our community action event Hands Up, Hands On to be added in to our handprint collage. To date, we have 2,402.

To provide an experiential feel to our showcase, students and guests were treated to the SPLAT! Mocktail, freshly shaken by Pirapong See, SPLAT!‘s Master Specialist of Art and Design, and Jerian Tyo, SPLAT!‘s Manager of Special Duties.

Mr James Ng, 17, a PJC student, commented, “The event was very successful and many students feel that youths-at-risk and ex-youth offenders deserve second chances. The SPLAT! Mocktail helped to draw in the crowd too.” — SPLAT!

Did you know that the first mocktail to symbolise the diverse challenges, strengths and aspirations of youths was created by SPLAT! on 01 Aug 2010? Conceptualised and created by volunteers from Assumption Pathway School, it was unveiled to guests and the public during the SPLAT! Talent Showcase Mapping Our Aspirations on 15 Oct 2010 by our guest-of-honour Dr Vivian Balakrishnan, who was then the Minister for Community Development, Youth and Sports.

The SPLAT! Mocktail symbolises the diverse challenges, strengths and aspirations of youths. The cranberry, traditionally associated with Thanksgiving and Christmas, reflects the appreciation of youths towards their community in developing them and their desire to give back to their community with their strengths and potentials. The tanginess and sweet aftertaste of the orange symbolises the challenges of youths and how they emerge from these challenges better, stronger and wiser. The blueberry and mango syrups provide a invigorating blend of floral and tropical aromas, reflecting the diverse aspirations and potentials of youths that inspire those around them. The cherry, often associated with the phrase “cherry on top”, reminds us that every youth is a unique gem whom we can journey with in development and growth.

Ingredients and Concoction

Cranberry Juice – 30 ml
Orange Juice – 90 ml
Blueberry Syrup – 30 ml
Mango Syrup – 30 ml
Cherry for Garnishing

SPLAT! commenced distribution of our DVD Youth Delinquency and Me to all secondary schools in Singapore.

Youth Delinquency and Me develops an informed awareness and desire in educators and students to actively involve themselves in addressing the concerns and challenges that youths-at-risk and ex-youth offenders face, and deepens their understanding of rehabilitative processes for youth offenders.

It comprises reflections by professionals involved in rehabilitative processes and ex-youth offenders. An extract adapted from the life experiences of an ex-youth offenders that highlights themes revolving around at-risk behaviour is incorporated into our DVD.

Youth Delinquency and Me is supported by the Industrial & Services Co-operative Society Ltd, the Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports, the National Commitee on Youth Guidance and Rehabilitation, the National Youth Council and the Tote Board. It was produced and performed by volunteers from Anderson Secondary School, Catholic Junior College, Ngee Ann Polytechnic and River Valley High School.

The DVD has been addressed to the department heads of student development in secondary schools. If you hold this appointment and do not receive our DVD by 29 Jun 2011, please contact us. — SPLAT!

89 students from River Valley High School and 16 Student Councilors (SCs) from Assumption Pathway School volunteered at the SPLAT! Community Action Event Hands Up, Hands On, which was held along Orchard Road and at the Jurong Point Shopping Centre. They enthusiastically approached the public to pen messages of encouragement for youths-at-risks and ex-youth offenders on handmade handprints. They then invited the public to take photographs with their handprints.

Dominic Lim, SPLAT!’s Group Head of Strategic Management and Founder, said, “Our handprints symbolize the many helping hands that empower and support youths-at-risk and ex-youth offenders. On the occasions that they fall, these hands collaborate in helping them to learn from their mistakes, offering them second chances and journeying with them to map and transform their aspirations into reality.

The 1,993 messages will be presented to organizations assisting youths-at-risk and ex-youth offenders, and the photographs will be combined to form a Photograph Mosaic in the shape of Singapore. This “puts a human face” to the public’s support. A representation of our collective support as a nation for youths-at-risk and ex-youth offenders, our Photograph Mosaic will be displayed in a mobile exhibition at educational institutions and libraries nationwide.

Mr Ng Jun Wei, 18, a volunteer, commented, “Our volunteers were enthusiastic and have increased awareness among the public of the concerns and challenges that youths-at-risk and ex-youth offenders face.”

A volunteer empowerment platform, Hands Up, Hands On developed the communication and leadership skills of our SCs. They planned our community action event and served as ambassadors of their educational institution in sharing with the public about the concerns and challenges that youths-at-risk and ex-youth offenders face.

Ms Michelle Tan, 17, a volunteer from River Valley High School, said, “The messages of encouragement will help youths-at-risks and ex-youth-offenders to believe in their potentials. This makes our perseverance in the rain worthwhile.”

SPLAT! will continue to engage the public into accepting and offering second chances to youths-at-risk and ex-youth offenders while inspiring community action to support their rehabilitation and reintegration into society. We look forward to the public’s continuing support in our endeavour. — SPLAT!

50 guests attended the launch of SPLAT!’s DVD Youth Delinquency and Me and community action event Hands Up, Hands On. Held at the National Youth Centre, our launch event was graced by Dr Mohamad Maliki Osman, Senior Parliamentary Secretary for National Development and Deputy Chairman of the National Committee on Youth Guidance and Rehabilitation.

Our guests comprised stakeholders from the Industrial & Services Co-operative Society, the Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports and the National Youth Council, volunteers from Anderson Secondary School, Ngee Ann Polytechnic and River Valley High School who had produced and performed for our DVD, and volunteers from Assumption Pathway School who had planned and implemented our community action event.  Our DVD  was screened to much applause from our guests, reflecting their belief that it has the potential to inform and inspire its audience to accept and offer second chances to youths-at-risk and ex-youth offenders.

In his welcome remarks, Dominic Lim, SPLAT!‘s Group Head of Strategic Management and Founder, expressed his appreciation and gratitude to our stakeholders and volunteers in transforming our DVD from the drawing board to reality. He said, “Our DVD was conceptualised and produced in response to requests from educators, who had expressed their desire for tools to help them in learning more about the youth delinquency. Your competencies, commitment and conscienous contributions have made this a reality and opened more doors of acceptance and second chances for youths-at-risk and ex-youth offenders. This will transform their lives and those of their families. I thank and salute you.”

In recognition of our volunteers’ contributions, Dr Maliki presented certificates of appreciation to them. Our launch event brought together people from many walks of life, allowing a chance for interaction and further understanding of issues between the different groups of people.

SPLAT!’s DVD Youth Delinquency and Me develops in teachers an awareness and desire to actively involve themselves in addressing the concerns and challenges that youths-at-risk and ex-youth offenders face. It will deepen their understanding of rehabilitative processes for youth offenders, thereby inspiring them to be more actively involved in helping our youths to maximize their potentials.

Our community action event Hands Up, Hands On highlights the importance of public acceptance, support and commitment in helping youths-at-risk and ex-youth offenders to rehabilitate and reintegrate into society. At least 3,000 messages of encouragement penned by the public will be collected for our youths-at-risk and ex-youth offenders. Our guests contributed by penning messages of encouragement for them.

Tricia Goh, SPLAT!’s Team Head of Policies and Plans, said, “No one knows youths like the youths do. This launch event marks a new beginning where youths from all walks of life come together to offer their time, effort, strengths and potentials to society, collaborating to rally the public in offering second chances to youths-at-risk and ex-youth offenders.” — SPLAT!