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| OBJECTIVES
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The objectives of family services are to preserve and strengthen the family as a unit, develop caring interpersonal relationships, enable individuals and family members to prevent and deal with personal and family problems, and provide suitable services to meet needs that cannot be adequately met from within the family.
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| APPROACH |
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The Social Welfare Department (SWD) adopts a three-pronged approach to provide a continuum of services to support families, namely:
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At the primary level, prevention of problems and crises: publicity, public education, empowerment and early
identification
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At the secondary level, a range of support services : from developmental programmes to intensive counselling
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At the tertiary level, specialised services and crisis intervention against specific problems such as domestic
violence and suicide, etc.
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| SERVICE PROVISION AND STATISTICS UNDER THE THREE-PRONGED APPROACH |
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The service provision and statistics under the three-pronged approach are as follows:
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