Thye Hua Kwan Family Service Centre is a family service centre that serves clients around the community of MacPherson. Over there, I further honed my social work skills and deepened my social work knowledge as I was exposed to larger clientele population, compared to SANA. I was able to work with clients of different ages and background and learn about the work of a family service centre, a detrimental key point of the social work sector.

 

This also allowed me to learn about the different social work organisations and agencies and how their approaches towards clients and social work differs, based on organisational values, mission and vision. At THK FSC, I exercised interdisciplinary thinking skills, learning more about the collaborations between different professionals, such as school counsellors, child protective officers and even social workers from other agencies. 

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Aside from casework and counselling, I was also exposed to a groupwork programme in THK FSC, SIMCharge. It is a groupwork programme for single mothers, educating them on the stigma that they face, giving them a space to share the different types of parenting they engage in and the common issues that they encounter as
a single mother. In this programme, I honed my empathy and creativity skills, learning to understand single mothers while
coming up with activities that may interest them, such as learning current trends and slangs that their children may be using.