Youth Outreach is a non-profitable organization established in 1991 as a crisis intervention centre for children and youths (Youth Outreach, 2015). They provide a wide range of services which serve to help ‘at-risk youth grow into responsible members of our community’. In the past 3 years, Youth Outreach successfully managed to reach out to an average of 2400 young late night street wanderers per year, sending them home and preventing them from possible approaches to join gangs. In addition, they also help youths in attaining healthy interests and basic skills for employment. Instead of the entire Youth Outreach organization, I would like to specifically recommend the Outreaching Services and Social Enterprise to be implemented in Singapore. This comprises of 4 segments: the All-night Outreaching Team, Youth Employment Start-up Program (Y.E.S.), Hang Out and AS Production.
All-Night Outreaching Teams operate from midnight to 6am daily, with the responsibility of seeking out and making the primary contact …show more content…
If a society has not been registered with the Registry of Societies, it is considered a triad or secret society, as is commonly referred to as a gang. In general, there are 2 types of gangs in Singapore: traditional and street gang. However, we will focus primarily on the street gangs as they are the ones creating the law and order problems presently. Youths who have problems communicating with their parents, low self-esteem and lack a sense of purpose in life tend to hang out at public places such as void decks, street soccer and basketball courts and LAN game centres instead of going home at night. These youths seek acceptance and recognition from other people. They are therefore easily susceptible and vulnerable to recruitment by gang members who befriended them. Many a time, gangs offer a false sense of meeting their
All-Night Outreaching Teams operate from midnight to 6am daily, with the responsibility of seeking out and making the primary contact …show more content…
If a society has not been registered with the Registry of Societies, it is considered a triad or secret society, as is commonly referred to as a gang. In general, there are 2 types of gangs in Singapore: traditional and street gang. However, we will focus primarily on the street gangs as they are the ones creating the law and order problems presently. Youths who have problems communicating with their parents, low self-esteem and lack a sense of purpose in life tend to hang out at public places such as void decks, street soccer and basketball courts and LAN game centres instead of going home at night. These youths seek acceptance and recognition from other people. They are therefore easily susceptible and vulnerable to recruitment by gang members who befriended them. Many a time, gangs offer a false sense of meeting their