Our History

Bishan Home was declared open by then Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong on 25th September 1999 and started operations the following month. The Home is a joint effort between the Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports (MCYS) and the Bible-Presbyterian Welfare Services with MCYS.

 

We are a registered society and a member of the National Council of Social Service (NCSS) under the Bible-Presbyterian Welfare Services umbrella.  We are also a registered Charity and have been granted Institution of Public Character (IPC) status in our own right. We are currently working towards registering ourselves as a separate society with the Registrar of Societies with the assurance from NCSS that we will be granted automatic membership when our Society registration is approved.

 

From an initial population of slightly over 20 residents, we now have 127 residents and we are targeting to reach full capacity of 132 by year end. In addition to our residential program, we also have a Day Activity Centre (DAC) program.

We introduced our DAC program in 1999 as a social service in response to appeals desperate parents in the surrounding neighborhood for such a program.

 

This program started off as a ‘non government funded program’ but in 2005 MCYS after reviewing our program agreed to both fund the expansion of Day Activity Centre and program. When the expansion works are completed by year end, we would be able to increase our DAC clients from 16 to 50.