CSCC - Caritas Singapore Community Council

Family Life Society (FLS)

		Family Life Society (FLS) is a non-profit organisation that offers counselling and care services as well as educational programmes and resources to families and individuals. They provides 15 programmes and services to reach out to families and individuals, regardless of their background, race or religion, in promoting pro-family and pro-life values. Their mission is to promote a deep understanding and reverence for marriage, family and human life and to make their services available to all.

>> Key Personnel



President	:	Dr John Lim Kai Liang
Vice-President	:	Thomas Chia
Hon. Treasurer	:	Christopher Murugasu
Hon. Secretary	:	Victor Ong

Committee Members	:	Bro Colin Wee
		Daniel Ee
		Thio Ying Ying
		Robert Conceicao

Staff
Executive Director	:	Sheryl Khong
Programme Manager	:	Michelle Soliano-Lew
Administrative Executive	:	Catherine Wee
Administrative Assistant	:	Katherine Khoo
Programme Executive	:	Alvin Tay
Programme Executive	:	Maria Plengsangtip
Programme Executive	:	Laura Rebecca Jonathan
Marketing Executive	:	Susie Wee

Counsellors
Principal Therapist	:	Theresa Bung
Therapists	:	Vijoo George

FLS Programme Coordinators
Counselling Services	:	Theresa Bung
Celebration of Life	:	Michelle Soliano-Lew
Joyful Parenting	:	Pamela Lim
Pregnancy Crisis Centre	:	Rose Boon

FLS Affiliate Coordinators
Beginning Experience	:	Joseph Chew, Lim Kim Joo, Sue Teo
Choice	:	Colin & Magdalene Lauw
Couple Empowerment Programme	:	Dr Bernard & Ying Thio
Couples for Christ	:	Patrick & Yvonne Thong
Engaged Encounter	:	Patrick & Linette Hia
Marriage Encounter	:	Patrick & Rachel Tee
Marriage Preparation Course	:	Anthony & Ann-Marie Chua
Natural Family Planning	:	Dr Ian Snodgrass
Retrouvaille	:	Lawrence & Christina Tan

>> Programmes and Activities

FLS Programmes
At FLS, they provide counselling services to anyone who needs help and support from marital, psychological, and social to unwanted pregnancies. The counselling function is staffed and managed by our experienced therapists.

FLS also provides counselling education and training to aspiring counsellors. The aim of FLS is to nurture and grow the number of counsellors from parishes in order for them to engage at the grassroots level. These trainings aim to provide “soft skills” and strategies to enable counsellors to serve in their communities.

Counselling & Care:


	Pregnancy Crisis Service (PCS) >> A hotline and counselling service for expectant mothers facing unwanted pregnancies.

	Joyful Parenting >> This service reaches out to mothers or mother-to-be with breastfeeding advise and support.

	Family & Marital Therapy (FMT) >> A confidential service managed and provided by experienced family and marital therapists for those with marital, psychological and social problems.

	Couselling in Parishes >> FLS provides free counselling services by our trained lay counsellors in different parishes across Singapore.

Celebration of Life (Education and Formation):


	Celebration of Life (COL) >> This is the educational outreach programme of the Family Life Society to promote pro-life and pro-family values in society especially through the schools and the parishes.

	Schools Family Education (SFE) >> The Schools Family Education or SFE is a programme initiated by the Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports (MCYS). It is a holistic family learning model – equipping parents with effective parenting skills and training them to be parents, facilitators, helping school staff to enhance their family life, and providing students with life skills training.

Affiliates Programmes:

Beginning Experience (BE)
A peer support programme for the divorced, widowed and separated.

Tel	:	9675-6940
Website	:	http://www.besingapore.com/

Choice
A weekend stay-in program for singles aged 18 to 35 years, with the aim of discovering self and the importance of relationships within the family, with friends and the larger community

Tel	:	9307-7752 / 9671-0767
Website	:	www.choice.org.sg

Couple Empowerment Programme (CEP)
Helping newly married couples understand common issues and build emotionally intelligent marriages/families.

Tel	:	9787-9705
Website	:	www.freewebs.com/cep_singapore

Couples for Christ (CFC)
A family life renewal program for married couples, youth and children.

Tel	:	6284-1880
Website	:	www.cfc.org.sg

Engaged Encounter (EE)
A marriage preparation stay-in programme for couples planning to get married.

Tel	:	6782-3912
Website	:	http://www.veritas.org.sg/ceespore/

Marriage Encounter (ME)
A weekend stay-in marriage enrichment programme for married couples.

Tel	:	6289-5349
Website	:	http://www.marriage-encounter-sg.org/

Marriage Preparation Course (MPC)
A six-weekend program for engaged couples preparing for marriage.

Tel	:	6256-6353
Website	:	http://www.catholic.org.sg/MPC/
MPC in Catholic News (PDF Filesize: 4.17MB)

Natural Family Planning (NFP)
A natural form of family planning based on the fertility periods during a woman's menstrual cycle.

Tel	:	6281-0502
Website	:	http://www.catholic.org.sg/nfp/

Retrouvaille
For couples facing troubled marriages but who want their marriages to work.

Tel	:	6749-8861
Website	:	http://www.helpourmarriage.sg/

>> Beneficiaries

	Family & Marital Counselling

		Type of Cases	YR2010

		Marital & Family	190
		Teens/Parenting	26
		Personal/Mental/Sexuality	44
		Pregnancy Crisis Related	7
		TOTAL	267

	Para-Counselors

		Year	YR2010

		Number of Clients	202



	YR2010
Topics	Presentations	Target Audience	No. of Participants
Characters Development	30	Students	3000
Sexuality Education	25	Students/ parents (PARISH LEVEL)	4300
Team-building	27	Students/ Parents/ Teachers	740
Parent-child bonding	34	Students/ Parents	1700
Parenting talks	540	Parents	8500
Theology of the body	14	Parishioners	1000
Student workshop	40	Students	12,000
Total	710		31,240

	Pregnancy Crisis Service

		Nature of Calls	No. of Calls (YR2010)

		Total Number of Calls	552
		Day (9am-5pm)	372
		Night (after 5pm)	150
		Face to Face Counseling/intervention	75
		Confirmed number of pregnancies carried to term	35

	Joyful Parenting

		Hotline Calls	No. of Calls (YR2010)

		Breastfeeding	1,115
		Parenting	26
		Others	19
		Total	1160

	Choice

		No. of Choice Weekends	No. of Participants (YR2010)

		4	101

	Couple Empowerment Programme

		No. of programmes	No. of Couples (YR2010)

		2	54

	Marriage Preparation Course

		Year 2010 in review	Total
		Total no. of engaged couple	292
		No. of Catholic couples	38%
		No. of mixed couples (one partner is Catholic)	58%
		No. of couples where neither partner belonged to the Catholic faith	4%

	Engaged Encounter

		Couple Combination	No. of Couples (YR2010)

		Catholic (both partners are Catholic)	249
		Mixed (one partner Catholic)	362
		Attending RCIA	4
		Total	607

	Marriage Encounter

		Encountered	No. of Couples (YR2010)

		Married Couples	175
		Priests	5
		Religious	2
		Total	182

	Couples for Christ

		Ministries	Membership YR2010

		Couples for Christ	532
		Servants of the Lord	25
		Handmaids of the Lord	65
		Singles for Christ	441
		Youth for Christ	126
		Kids for Christ	198

	Natural Family Planning

		No. of Clients Taught	YR2010

		New	337
		Repeats	614
		Total	951



Weekends	Both Roman Catholic	YR2010

1st	6	14
2nd	5	14
3rd	6	11
Total	17	39



Weekends	Women	Men	YR2010

1st	12	2	14
2nd	11	1	12
Total	29	5	26

>> Corporate and Contact Information

As directed by the Catholic Archbishop of Singapore, the Family Life Society was established as the Family Life Bureau in 1983 and registered in February 1985 as a society (RoS No. 0223/1989) and a charity (Reg. No. 00649) in 15 Apr 1989. It has Institution of Public Character (IPC) status (IPC000350) currently from 1 Nov 2010 to 31 Oct 2012.

Financial Year End	:	31 December

Auditors	:	Fiducia LLP, CPA

Organisation Name	:	Family Life Society (FLS)

Address	:	2 Highland Road, #LG-01
		Singapore 549102
Tel (Gen)	:	6488-0278
Fax	:	6285-5311
Website	:	www.familylife.sg

Contact Person	:	Sheryl Khong
Tel	:	6488-0278
Email	:	sherylkhong@familylife.sg

>> Financials

Financial Snapshot

	Financial Year	YR2008	YR2009	YR2010

	Receipts and Expenses
	Total Receipts	$1,007,168	$1,181,015	$1,147,915
	Total Expenditure	$876,806	$1,016,128	$1,002,055
	Surplus/(Deficit)	$130,362	$164,887	$145,860

	Balance Sheet
	Total Assets	$352,078	$533,164	$693,575
	Total Liabilities	$33,372	$49,571	$64,122
	Accumulated & Specific Funds	$318,706	$483,593	$629,453



Annual Report 2010