School Family Education SFE

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School Family Education (SFE)
Orientation Briefing 28 April 2009 Family
Education Department
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OVERVIEW

• Roles and responsibilities of service provider
  and coordinator
• Funding and outcome indicators
• Reimbursement

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AIM

• Enhance quality of family life by
• providing family life education programmes to
  parents, staff and students
• making family resource easily available to
  parents, staff and students

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DESIRED OUTCOME

• Family life education skills knowledge can
  need to be learnt. We need to take a proactive
  effort to strengthen and enrich family life.

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SERVICE PROVIDER Roles and Responsibilities

• Provide consultation to school on family life
  education programmes and resource people
• Provide guidance to school coordinator in
  planning suitable programmes for target groups
• Provide guidance to school on budget and make
  payments for coordinator fees, programmes and
  related items on behalf of school

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SFE COORDINATOR Roles and Responsibilities

• Together with school service provider, plan
  and implement family life education programmes
  for target groups
• Provide and coordinate with family life
  educators on programmes
• Conduct assessment to identify needs
• Publicise family life education programmes and
  family life centre/ corner

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SFE COORDINATOR Roles and Responsibilities
(Continued)

• Provide information and referral service to
  those who need professional help
• Set up/ manage and promote family life centre/
  corner
• Identify parents for parent facilitator training

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SFE COORDINATOR Roles and Responsibilities
(Continued)

• Collate feedback on programmes and its
  effectiveness - Workshop Evaluation Form
• Prepare monthly reimbursement documents
• Assist in the school survey commissioned by MCYS

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PROGRAMME CONTENT

• Parent education
• Parent facilitators course
• School staffs family wellness
• Students lifeskills training

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FAMILY LIFE EDUCATION PROGRAMMES

• Parent parenting tips, marriage enrichment,
  financial stress management, work-life harmony.
  Examples
• Build self-esteem in your child
• Understand your child
• Discipline strategies
• Effective communication skills
• Model a good marriage and a healthy lifestyle
• Marriage enrichment
• Family bonding
• Money management
• Work-life harmony
• Sexuality education for parents

X Academic X Health
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FAMILY LIFE EDUCATION PROGRAMMES
PARENT FACILITATOR TRAINING PROGRAMME
Parent volunteer
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FAMILY LIFE EDUCATION PROGRAMMES (Continued)

• Staff - financial stress management, personal
  effectiveness, work-life balance, single
  education. Examples
• Stress management
• Money management
• Work-life harmony
• Parenting/ Marriage

X Enhance teaching role
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FAMILY LIFE EDUCATION PROGRAMMES (Continued)

• Student lifeskill, character development,
  financial stress management. Examples
• Build self-esteem
• Build character
• Be money wise
• Stress and conflict management
• Media influence
• Communication and relationship skills
• Service learning (with parents/grandparents)

X Sexuality education, BGR, academic
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FAMILY LIFE EDUCATION PROGRAMMES (Continued)

• Based on needs of target groups
• Include subject matters that are central to the
  family life of each target group
• 100 hours per year per school
• - 70 for parents/staff 30 for students
• - max 10 hours for recreational/social events

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FAMILY LIFE CENTRE/ CORNER

• Open for 12 hours a week
• Easily accessible
• Well-maintained and utilised
• Drop-in centre to gather more information on
  family life and seek advice from SFE
  coordinator

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PUBLICITY STRATEGIES

• Banner - Overall layout and design of the banner
  provided by MCYS. School to provide logos to be
  included in the banner send logo to
  chua_li_ping_at_mcys.gov.sg by 6 May 2009.
• Pamphlet/ handout/ poster SFE Parent Guide
  other MCYS resource materials, SFE corporate
  video, brochure stand, SFE banner will be sent to
  schools (May 09)
• School Website - Hyperlink to SFE website
  (www.sfe.org.sg)
• Notice board/ Newsletters/ Tip sheets
• Book reviews - Encourage parents to borrow books
  that are available in the family life centre/
  corner

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SFE BANNER
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MCYS FUNDING

• MCYS provides the following funding per school
• 1st yr - 20,000 (Prog) 10,000 (Coordinator)
• 2nd yr - 15,000 (Prog) 10,000 (Coordinator)
• 3rd yr - 10,000 (Prog) 10,000 (Coordinator)
• From the 4th year, school will be given the
  option to continue the programme
• School must meet MCYS outcome indicators each
  year to secure funding for subsequent years

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MCYS FUNDING Performance Indicators
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MCYS FUNDING - Performance Indicators

• Figures for year 2 and 3 are cumulative, i.e., an
  additional 10 of parents should be reached in
  year 2 and additional 20 for year 3
• Figures based on student enrolment for the year.
  E.g., if student enrolment is 2,000, total number
  of parents reached should be 600 in the first
  year, 800 in the second year and 1200 in the
  third year
• Outreach figures should reflect the actual
  participants and not attendance rates, which
  means that these do not include repeat
  participants

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MCYS FUNDING - SFE Coordinator

• Appointment of a SFE coordinator in each school
  for 3 years
• 10,000 each year per school
• Working hours 936 hours/year or 78 hours/month
• Annual funding of coordinator is tied to funding
  of family life education programmes

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EVALUATION

• Summary of Workshop Evaluation Form -Summary of
  participants feedback on SFE programmes
• Monthly Reimbursement Evaluation Form (MREF) -
  Monthly evaluation on output and of outcome
  indicators
• Half-yearly report provided by MCYS
• Quantitative and qualitative survey on impact of
  SFE

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REIMBURSEMENT

• Monthly basis
• Must reach MCYS within 15 days after each Month,
  e.g., for May - submit by 15 June
• For Feb 09 reimbursement, must reach MCYS by 10th
  March due to close of FY
• School certify the accuracy of invoices and
  claims - signature of P or VP or HOD and school
  stamp
• MCYS disburses fund via service providers

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REIMBURSEMENT -Documents Required

• Family Life Education Programme
• Cover letter signed by head of service provider
  with organisation letterhead
• Monthly Reimbursement Evaluation form (MREF)
  signed by P or school representative
• Original invoices/ receipts. Photocopied
  -certified true copies, signed, and bear schools
  stamp
• Summary of workshop evaluation form or Programme
  short report
• Certification letter from school for the
  coordinators work hours

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• For more FAQs, visit www.sfe.org.sg
• For reimbursement enquiries,
• Email chow_hor_wai_at_mcys.gov.sg or
• call Christopher at 6354 9872
• For general enquiries,
• email mcys_sfe_at_mcys.gov.sg or
• call Eunice Sui at tel [phone] and
• Li Ping at tel [phone]

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