Rehabilitation Work
@ Community Rehabilitation Centre
In May 2020, the Singapore Prison Service (SPS) appointed Youth Guidance Outreach Services as the new Managing Agent of the Community Rehabilitation Centre (CRC).
The CRC is a step-down centre from the Drug Rehabilitation Centre, dedicated to helping young male drug offenders. It seeks to provide a structured living environment for the residential youths aged 16 to below 21, helping them kick their addictive habits while carrying on with school or work outside.
In the past years, the number of arrested drug abusers below 20 has increased. It is thus an ongoing challenge to keep the youths away from more modern illegal substances and liberal attitudes towards drugs. YGOS foresees a huge but rewarding task ahead to journey along and provide restorative care and support for the youths.
Restorative care & support for all
Our approach and philosophy for rehabilitation work at CRC comprises of the following approaches: ​
Holistic
Approach
Individual, Family, Culture, Community
Throughcare
Approach
In-Care, Post-Care and Beyond
Mentoring
Approach
Passing on experiences and knowledge to achieve pro-social, positive outcomes
"What's broken can be mended,
What's hurt can be healed,
And no matter how dark it gets,
Light always overcomes darkness."
"Worrying rise in number of young people, women arrested for drug abuse in 2023: CNB"
More than half of the new abusers arrested were below the age of 30.
PHOTO: LIANHE ZAOBAO FILE
SINGAPORE - More than half of new drug abusers arrested in 2023 were below the age of 30, with figures from the Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) showing an increase in the use of illegal substances among women and the young.
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Official figures released on Feb 14 showed that the number of drug abusers arrested in 2023 was up by 10 percent to 3,101, compared with 2,826 arrested in 2022.
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Of those arrested in 2023, 944 were new drug abusers, an 18 percent increase from 802 in 2022.
More than half of the new abusers arrested were below the age of 30. Among them were five 14-year-olds, who were the youngest abusers to be arrested."