- Remedial Services
- Preventive and Developmental Programmes
- Professional Development
- Public Education
- Research                     

 

Impact of PAVe Services                                                          

a) Increased access to help
                                                           
Since PAVe's inception, it has seen a considerable increase in cases: from 192 cases in the financial year 1999/2000 to 660 in the financial year 2004/2005. The number of enquiries and referrals also went up from 335 to 800 in the same period. It is quite clear from PAVe's experience that as people become more aware of resources available, they are more ready to break the silence on family violence.

Comments from clients who have benefited from services provided by PAVe included the following:

"Before I was quite aggressive. Now I change for my children and my wife. Counselling helped me a lot because I improve myself. I learnt to be very patient, and be calm, control yourself. If anything happens, control yourself, stay above yourself, just go out. Come back talk to them, speak out everything, don't keep in the heart. Then that way we can understand each other. After counselling I changed myself totally, make sure my wife and children trust me, and there's no more violence. From there, we grow in our relationship, closer and closer. So now I trust her and she trust me."

Male client (aged 40), speaking on 'Crime Watch' programme after receiving help for use of violence against his spouse.

"I was suffering for the last 17 years in a 'dark room' and not sure what to do and how to get help. Once I met PAVe, I came to know a lot of things…to talk and open my mind….to talk about my rights. If you are keeping quiet, this will happen…I don't want violence to continue in my son's generation."

Female victim, aged 37, received help from PAVe for spousal violence

b) Garnering Interest on Specialized Centre for Family Violence

Since PAVe began operations as a specialized centre in 1999, it has played host to various government bodies, fellow professionals, and academicians both locally and from countries such as Japan, Hong Kong, Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines, Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos, among others. Some comments from the visitors were:

"PAVe had achieved a tremendous amount with such limited resources…"

The Psychological Medicine Division of the Changi General Hospital commented during their visit to PAVe, 5 October 2002

"We have the opportunity to learn from what Singapore had done ……and learn the ideology of prevention is better than cure in the social problem on women and child abuse."

The Bangkok Governor, on his visit to PAVe on 25 July 2002.

"Thank you very much for your kind cooperation and assistance to us. We appreciate your work and what you have done for families. We enjoy and get a lot of useful activities which can be taken to apply on work in the near future. We hope we will have the chance to share our work together"

Through the Governor's visit, other Committees in Bangkok have also visited the Centre, one of which is the Standing Committee on Children, Women and The Elderly, House of Representatives, on 8 September 2004.