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Cheng Pei Yun

 

PROFILE

·        Bachelor of Social Sciences with Honours (Social Work), RSW.

·        Effectively bilingual in English and Mandarin. Able to communicate in basic sign language.

 

EXPERIENCES

Singapore Children’s Society – Yishun Family Service Centre, Social Worker, Mar 2003 – present

·        Casework and counselling services for children, youths and adults.

·        Conduct group work for children.

·        Involve in designing programme evaluation methods for various programmes.

·        Coordinate Family Life Education Programmes.

·        Speaker for talk titled: Motivating Your Child.

·        Coordinator and contributor for publication titled: KidzVoices: Hear about Child Loneliness.

·        Coordinator for multimedia presentation shown in conjunction with launch of the publication titled: KidzVoices: Hear about Child Loneliness.

·        Involved in managing the centre’s Information Management System. Consolidating the centre’s monthly reports.

·        Involved in group work for parents.

 

Changi General Hospital, Medical Social Worker, Aug - Dec 2002

·        Psychosocial assessments.

·        Crisis intervention related to parasuicides and/ or family violence.

·        Discharge planning and care coordination.

 

Central Singapore Community Development Council, May - Jun 2000 (Field placement)

·        Exposed to the basic roles and functions of grassroots organisations in Singapore.

·        Assisted in planning, drafting project proposals and dealing with official correspondences.

 

Handicaps Welfare Association, Nov - Dec 1999 (Field placement)

·        Applied counselling, interpersonal and interviewing skills in the work with people with physical disabilities.

·        Contacted relevant external agencies to source for and mobilise relevant resources on the behalf of clients.

 

EDUCATION                       

National University of Singapore, Jul 1998 - Jun 2002

           

            Bachelor of Social Sciences with Honours (Social Work)

            Passed with Second Class Honours (Lower Division)

Topic for Honours Thesis: Organisational Supports and Volunteer Retention.

 

Bachelor of Arts

Passed with Merit

Single subject concentration in Social Work

Dean’s List 1998-1999 Semester 2

 

National Junior College, 1996 - 1997

Singapore-Cambridge GCE ‘A’ Levels

 

Nanyang Girls’ High School, 1992 - 1995

            Singapore-Cambridge GCE ‘O’ Levels

 

Townsville Primary School, 1986 - 1991

PSLE

 

OTHER QUALIFICATIONS

·        Certificate of Participation: Introduction to Statistical Analysis, Sep 2004.

·        Certificate of Completion: Advanced Skills Training For Counselling Practice, Aug 2004.

·        MBTI^® Accredited (Step I and Step II), Apr 2004.

·        Certificate of Attendance: Intentional Counselling & Interviewing, conducted by St. Andrew’s Lifestreams, Jul 2004.

·        Certificate of Commission: Completed RAINBOWS Facilitator Training, conducted by HELP Family Service Centre, Jun 2003.

                 

LANGUAGE SKILLS

·        Bilingual, able to write and converse in English and Mandarin.

·        Possesses knowledge of basic sign language.

·        Elementary knowledge in basic Malay language.

·        Able to comprehend Hainanese.

 

VOLUNTEER, COMMUNITY SERVICES          

·        Active member of the National University of Singapore Symphony Orchestra. (1998 - present).

·        Volunteer Offical for the 16^th Asia-Pacific Social Work Conference (Jul/ Aug 2001).

·        Volunteer rapporteur for the National Volunteer Conference for Non-Profit Organisation (Jul 2001).

·        Member of Editorial Committee for Social Work Year Book 2001.

·        Volunteer tutor at the Ang Mo Kio Family Service Centre (1998 - 2000, Dec 2001 - 2002).

 

COMPUTER KNOWLEDGE

·        Advanced knowledge and skills in MS Office.

·        Intermediate knowledge in the use of the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS).

·        Basic knowledge of HTML, Photoshop and Pagemaker.

·        Basic knowledge in the use of Chinese software such as Chinese Star.

·        Certificate of Achievement: Macromedia Flash™ mx.

·        Certificate of Achievement: Macromedia Flash™ mx Actionscripts.

 

REFERENCES

·        Available upon request.