CELEBRATING HEALTHY 04 Advisor’s Address 06 PAVE’s Beginnings RELATIONSHIPS 10 PAVE’s Services 12 Family Violence PAVE is a voluntary welfare organisation that specialises in the management of interpersonal violence. 14 Dating Violence It was set up in Singapore in 1999. Its mission is to 16 Changes to POHA promote a healthy community, free from violence through 20 Elder Abuse empowerment, collaboration and advocacy. 22 PAVE at Siglap CONTENTS 26 PAVE’s Partnerships 30 Safe Space Child Protection _ Specialist Centre 34 Love Is Respect 36 Campaigns 42 PAVE’s Milestones 02 • PAVE 20TH YEAR ANNIVERSARY PAVE 20TH YEAR ANNIVERSARY • 03 ADVISOR’S ADDRESS An organisation is only as good as the people whom Again, your practice efforts have not gone unnoticed and the it is made up by. PAVE should be proud that in its successful completion of the project and documentation through 20th year, it has developed a group of passionate, various academic publications on the experience and learning points professional and very driven staff, many of whom have shown your professional efforts to improve the wellbeing of have stayed with the organisation since its inception people from vulnerable backgrounds and contribute to the local body and has contributed to its growth. The Management of academic knowledge. Committee has been largely instrumental in lending support and stability to the organisation. You and the With the Vulnerable Adults Act being enacted last year, I am also professional staff have set standards for practice and particularly happy to hear of your efforts to develop tools to help have in the 20 years, spearheaded many innovative select and respond to vulnerable adults through the Structured programmes that are cutting edge and be trail Decision Making, Screening and Response Priority Tool for blazers for many others in the social service sector. Adult Protection. I understand you are now developing the Safety Assessment Tool. In the past year, PAVE has made some notable achievements. I am particularly impressed and proud What this shows is PAVE’s continual ability to watch trends, and Dr Mohamad Maliki of your advocacy efforts. Having advocated for 18 respond to changes in the landscape with appropriate programmes years for protection for those in an intimate partner and services for vulnerable families. Your efforts to do localised Bin Osman relationship, your efforts have not gone unnoticed. research is also to be commended. I urge you to continue this path. Minister K. Shanmugam, Minister for Law and Minister Senior Minister of State for Home Affairs commended PAVE for its efforts in In 20 years you have achieved so much. However, the needs of working with government to bring about the enhanced Singaporean families will continue to challenge the current practices Ministry of Defence changes in the amendments to the Protection from of the social work profession. Families operate in an ever evolving & Ministry of Foreign Harassment Act. Minister Shanmugan made special ecosystem and challenges. You must be prepared to understand, Affairs Mayor mention of PAVE’s efforts in his speech in Parliament respond and help them accordingly. I urge you therefore to continue when he moved the bill. to innovate and create programmes and services in tandem with South East CDC these changes. It leaves me only to wish the Management and staff of PAVE is also not afraid to venture into unchartered PAVE, 20 more good years. territories and in non-traditional areas such as working with complex and multi-problem families in the Interim Dr Mohamad Maliki Bin Osman Rental Housing at Bedok. Senior Minister of State, Ministry of Defence & Ministry of Foreign Affairs Mayor, South East CDC 04 • PAVE 20TH YEAR ANNIVERSARY PAVE 20TH YEAR ANNIVERSARY • 05 PAVE’S BEGINNINGS VISION To be the lead organisation in the provision and development of integrated services against interpersonal violence. To lead in the promotion of healthy relationships in our society. OLD COUNSELLING ROOM “For those who may be subject VIDEO LINK FACILITY MISSION to abuse, to have the strength FOR PPO - 1998 HOW PAVE STARTED To promote a healthy to understand what is right and community, free from Founded in 1999 by a group of social workers. what is wrong, and to be able to violence through empowerment, First-stop centre for people who abuse, survivors, and walk away when they see that collaboration and child witnesses of violence. something is wrong.” advocacy. Provides casework and group work services, video-link — K. Shanmugam, applications for protection orders through the Family Minister for Law and Minister for Home Affairs Justice Courts. In 1995, Social Workers participated in a pilot project which involved the police and 2 social Collaborated with the Family Justice service agencies. This pilot provided survivors of Courts to set up a video-link facility family violence the opportunity to be referred for protection order applications. to social service agencies by the police. The success of this pilot resulted in the National For the first time in history, survivors Family Violence Networking system that was of violence who urgently needed protection orders could apply for one implemented nationwide in 1996. in the heart of the community. 06 • PAVE 20TH YEAR ANNIVERSARY PAVE 20TH YEAR ANNIVERSARY • 07 Spousal Violence Accepting Responsibility “My face was like a jigsaw puzzle “It is wrong to think it is normal with I think about 7 or 8 cuts, long to have family problem and leave deep cuts. And my nose was it as that. We should seek help to opened. My ears were in pieces. My confront the problems and to hands were dangling like pieces of resolve the issues. I felt guilty for meat, chopped meat actually.” the past hurt to my wife.” PAVE’S SERVICES CASEWORK PAVE provides individual and group work programmes to those who use violence, those who experience violence and child witnesses of violence. Families can call or walk in for consultation and will be attended to by social workers specialising in family violence. GROUPWORK 1997: Persons who abuse- 12 session programme focussing on challenging one’s belief system. 1997: Survivors of violence- IO session programme focussing on safety and empowerment. 1998: Child and young adult witnesses of violence. 10 • PAVE 20TH YEAR ANNIVERSARY PAVE 20TH YEAR ANNIVERSARY • 11 FAMILY VIOLENCE INTEGRATED FAMILY APPLICATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM The Integrated Family Application Management System (iFAMS) is a comprehensive end-to-end system which deals predominantly with applications for family protection and TYPES OF FAMILY VIOLENCE maintenance order cases brought before the Family Justice Courts (FJC). It is a paperless system and developed as a Continual base for family related applications which can cater for future Physical Threats expansion to include other family court related applications. 1 2 3 Harassment iFAMS covers electronic case filing, tracking, workflow routing, case hearing and generation of electronic letters, Wrongful Forced Court Orders and statistical reports. 4 Confinement 5 Sex www.familyjusticecourts.gov.sg/Pages/ifams.aspx WHAT YOU CAN APPLY FOR EO PPO DEO EXPEDITED PERSONAL DOMESTIC ORDER PROTECTION ORDER EXCLUSION ORDER * Counselling Order (CGO) APPLY AT 12 • PAVE 20TH YEAR ANNIVERSARY PAVE 20TH YEAR ANNIVERSARY • 13 DATING VIOLENCE OF 1,603 WOMEN IN WHAT IS DATING VIOLENCE? SINGAPORE SURVEYED: A pattern of assaultive and controlling behaviours that one 44% of women were injured person uses against another in order to gain or maintain power and control in an intimate partner relationship. 41% feared for their life during the abuse by former partner 50% women were abused in current relationship 44% feared for their life in the most recent incident An average of 19% of intimate partner violence started prior to marriage Almost 30% of women worldwide experienced physical and/or sexual violence by an intimate partner WHO Global, 2013 SOURCE: DOMESTIC ABUSE INTERVENTION PROJECT, DULUTH, MINNESOTA 14 • PAVE 20TH YEAR ANNIVERSARY PAVE 20TH YEAR ANNIVERSARY • 15 HOW CAN YOU DEAL WITH HARASSMENT? CHANGES TO POHA If you find yourself being harrassed, you must make plans to keep yourself safe. The following are some tips: EXAMPLES INCLUDE WHAT IS POHA? The Protection of Harassment Act (2014) protects persons PROTECT YOURSELF against harassment and unlawful stalking and to create offences, and provide civil remedies related thereto or in • Calmly and firmly tell the harasser to stop • Break o all contact with the harasser relation to false statements of fact. In 2018, PAVE brought to • Ensure your personal safety the attention of the Minister for Law and Minsiter for Home • Protect your personal information Affairs, Mr K Shanmugam, gaps in the Protection Against Online Harassment Harassment Act (POHA) in relation to unmarried victims of intimate partner violence. GET HELP After 18 years of advocacy, the amendments were passed in • Family and friends Parliament in May 2019. In addition to protection for intimate • Religious or community leaders • Authorities at school or workplace partner violence, the Act saw several key enhancements, • Social organisations Sexual Harassment which are described below. “PAVE highlighted to me that unmarried IPV victims faced WHAT IS HARASSMENT? LEGAL OPTIONS issues in trying to actually access the legal system.” Harassment takes many forms. It causes both physical • Apply for a protection order and emotional harm. • Make a police report — K. Shanmugam • Sue for damages Minister for Law and Key Enhancements Include: Minister for Home Affairs Bullying • Consider seeking legal advice, if necessary Faster and easier for victims to get remedies with a dedicated Court Better protection for harassment victims and related persons Higher penalties Stalking for oences against intimate partners For more details, refer to the Protection from Harassment Act at: https://sso.agc.gov.sg/Act-Rev/PHA2014/ 16 • PAVE 20TH YEAR ANNIVERSARY PAVE 20TH YEAR ANNIVERSARY • 17 Elder Abuse Elder Abuse “After the last time when I fell and fractured my leg because he took a ladder and chased after me, I no longer can walk as well as before and cannot run out easily.