Workshops
Several workshops from the various Home Team department will be held during HTC 2010. For more details, scroll down the page. For registration, please click “WORKSHOP REGISTRATION” on the navigation bar on top. Slots are limited, so be fast!
 Topic: Help Us Clear You Faster & ICA Services Going the e-Way (By ICA) Speaker: Mr Golfred Tham 15 May, Saturday, 5PM @ Suntec City Convention Ctr, Level 3 Room 326 |
| This seminar aims to reach out to general public on 2 parts:Part 1: Help Us Clear You Faster – This part of the talk covers the prohibited items that a traveller cannot bring into Singapore and controlled items that may be brought into Singapore only on production of a permit from the controlling agency concerned. Examples of recent cases at checkpoints will be highlighted.Services Going the e-Way – This part of the talk covers ICA’s on-line services such as APPLES, eXTEND and eAppointment which members of the public can use to cut down on the number of trips to ICA Building and depending on the transactions, may also reduce their waiting time |
About The Speaker Assistant Superintendent Tham Golfred has been with ICA for close to four years. Currently he is attached to the Community Involvement Branch as a Senior Community Involvement Officer conducting public outreach programs including talks and exhibitions island-wide. His audience has been varied, ranging from students in the upper secondary level to senior citizens in their eighties. |
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Topic: Life Does Not Rewind. Stay Drug and Inhalant – Free (By CNB) Speaker: Ms Sriranjani 15 May, Saturday, 3PM @ Suntec City Convention Ctr, Level 3 Room 326 |
| This seminar aims to reach out to parents with teenagers on the different types of commonly abused drugs and inhalants, their dangers and consequences (including penalties). It also presents on the tell-tale signs of drugs and inhalant abuse, and useful tips on how parents can look out for if they suspect their teenagers to be abusing drugs/inhalants. Lastly, the seminar also includes the various ways on how and where to get help if parents suspect their teenagers are involved in drugs. |
| About The SpeakerMs Sriranjani is an experienced CNB Preventive Drug Education Programmes Officer who receives numerous accolades for her sincere and engaging style. A recipient of Excellence Service Award (Gold) in 2009, she frequently gives talks with youths and adults in schools, corporate and community events sharing her knowledge and experience in drug and inhalant abuse enforcement. |
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Topic: Get Real! Teenagers in Secret Societies and Moneylending Activities (By SPF) Speaker: Mr Deculan Goh 16 May, Sunday, 3PM @ Suntec City Convention Ctr, Level 3 Room 326 |
| This seminar aims to reach out to parents with teenagers on 2 parts:Part 1: Unlicensing Moneylending – This part of the talk covers the situation of unlicensed moneylending in Singapore, and how youths are being used either in facilitating the unlicensing moneylending business or as harrassers with lure of easy money. It also includes on how to detect if your teenager is involved in such activities as well as how you could do as a parent on preventing your teenager from being involved.Part 2: Secret Societies – This part of the talk covers the street corner gangs in Singapore and the common reasons for youths to join gangs. It also includes streetwise programmes and how as a parent you could do your part to detect if your teenager is involved in gangs and how you could prevent them from being involved. |
About The Speaker Deputy Superintendent Deculan Goh Kim Chuan is the Head of the Specialised Crime Expert Branch under the Criminal Investigation Department of the Singapore Police Force. The Specialised Crime Division of CID/SPF deals with a host of social crimes ranging from secret societies, unlicensed moneylending, vice, gambling, intellectual property rights infringements to casino crimes. As Head Specialised Crime Expert Branch, DSP Goh plays a key role in the formulation and implementation of specialized crimes’ policies and strategies. With his 12 years in the Singapore Police Force, DSP Goh has accumulated a wealth of experience, and uncountable accolades, in combating crimes. DSP Goh is also the key driver of a youth outreach soccer clinic, known as Camp ACE, aimed to dissuade youths from joining secret societies. His knowledge and background on specialized crimes puts him in the best position to deliver on the topic of Get Real! Teenagers in Secret Societies and Moneylending Activities. |
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Topic: Life Saving Skills: A Lifelong Learning Process (By SCDF) Speaker: Ms Janice Oh 16 May, Sunday, 4PM @ Suntec City Convention Ctr, Level 3 Room 325 |
| This seminar cum workshop aims to reach out to the general public on a brief introduction of the Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) and the Automated External Defibrillator (AED), followed by a demonstration on how CPR and AED is applied to people in need.Part 1: Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) – CPR is a physical intervention that creates an artificial circulation through rhythmic compression on to patient’s chest to manually pump blood through the heart; and ventilating the lungs to pass oxygen into the blood.CPR does not restart the heart but serves to maintain the flow of oxygenated blood to vital organs such as the brain and heart from dying. By delaying tissue death, CPR extends the small window of opportunity for successful resuscitation without causing permanent brain damage to the patient.
In order to restore the heart with a viable rhythm for life support, the use of intravenous drugs and defibrillation in advance life support is needed. However, this can only be used if CPR done can help to induce a shockable rhythm (VF/VT) in an asystolic patient. CPR is only stopped when there is a return in spontaneous circulation or when declared dead. Automated External Defibrillator (AED) – An automated external defibrillator (AED) is a portable electronic device that automatically diagnoses cardiac arrhythmia – namely Pulseless Ventricular Tachycardia (VT) or Ventricular Fibrillation (VF) and re-establishes an effective rhythm through the application of electrical therapy. In cardiac arrhythmia, despite remaining active, the heart beats in a life-threatening, dysfunctional pattern that is either too fast (VT) or chaotic (VF) for effective blood pump that eventually cease to beat (asystole); leading to cardiac arrest in patient. Since AED can only detect VF or pulseless VT, it is therefore important for CPR and a combination of cardiac stimulant drugs to be carried out before an AED can be used. |
About The Speaker LTA Janice Oh joined the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) as a Paramedic Specialist in 1998. In 2004, she crossed over to the Senior Officer Scheme afterwhich she undertook the appointment of “Rota Commander” at “Bishan Fire Station” for 2 years. Following this operational stint at the station, she was posted to the Medical Department, HQ SCDF and appointed as “Assistant Director, Emergency Medical Services”. |
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Topic: Understanding Problem Gambling (By NAMS) Speaker: Ms Lim Hui Khim 15 May, Saturday, 4PM @ Suntec City Convention Ctr, Level 3 Room 326 |
| With the recent opening of Resort World Sentosa and the upcoming Marina Bay Sands, it is very important and timely that we become more aware of how gambling can become a serious problem for some Singaporeans. Gambling addiction, or pathological gambling, can affect up to 2% of our population. For every gambler that develops this very serious illness, four or more people are affected, particularly family members. Attend this seminar and learn the difference between low risk recreational gambling and problem and pathological gambling, the signs and symptoms that someone has developed a serious gambling problem, and how we can help them to find the right sources of help that are available in Singapore. |
About The Speaker Lim Hui Khim [ MSoc(Psychotherapy & Counselling), CCS, CSAC, CGAC] is the Deputy Head of Counselling with National Addictions Management Services (NAMS), Institute of Mental Health. As a trained addiction counsellor and supervisor with over 8 years of experience, she is actively involved in the program development, counselling and support for families and couples facing addiction issues |
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Topic: Volunteering…Taking A Road Less Travelled Speaker: Mr Lim Poh Quee 15 May, Saturday, 2PM @ Suntec City Convention Ctr, Level 3 Room 325 |
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| This is a 1-hr Workshop, specially for Home Team Volunteers. Mr Lim Poh Quee, the Executive Director of the Singapore Anti-Narcotics Association (SANA) will speak at this Workshop, titled “Volunteering…Taking A Road Less Traveled”. With a deep understanding of the challenges of volunteering, he offers another perspective of volunteering and how volunteering is an opportunity to enrich oneself and grow emotionally, spiritually and psychologically.
For more information regarding the Workshop, please contact Philomena at 64787221 or Benedict at 6478 7223. Seats for the workshop are limited and priority will be given to Home Team Volunteers. |
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| About The Speaker Lim Poh Quee had served more than 46 years in the Singapore Police Force and Ministry of Home Affairs. During his term in MHA, he was also concurrently the Chairman of Phoenix Cooperative Society and PCS Security, a SME IT company. He took up the appointment of Executive Director of SANA on 15 Sep 2008. |
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Topic: The Community’s Humanitarian Role in Regional Emergencies Speaker: Jaffar Mydin, Head of International Programme 16 May, Saturday, 2PM @ Suntec City Convention Ctr, Level 3 Room 325 |
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| This workshop discusses the integral role of the community of any given region – before, during and after a disaster hits. | |
About The Speaker Jaffar Mydin, 51, is the current Head of International Programme (IP) in Mercy Relief (MR) and is responsible for overseeing the organisation’s emergency relief missions and peacetime development projects across Asia. Jaffar had been an active volunteer at MR since its early days, having been Jaffar has had over 20 years of management experience in the service & hospitality industry prior to joining MR. |
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