Progressive work
My group and I are doing about this organisation call the Samaritans of Singapore (SOS). SOS is a organisation which is non-profit and non-religious. The aim of SOS is to prevent suicide by providing emotional support and befriending to those who are despairing, discourage or distressed. They have professionals and members of the public on detecting the warning signs of suicide. This is done through talks and workshops and through our annual Suicide Awareness Week. They have 24hr hotline, face-to-face counseling sessions. They also provide myths and facts.
What do they do?
They help suicide – prone victims to prevent them from suicide by providing emotional support and befriending to those who are despairing, discouraged or distressed. They help people who feel like suicide to change their mind set.
What do they provide?
They provide emotional support and by befriending the victims, who are despairing, discouraged or distressed. They also provide myths and facts about suicide. Also they provide some information on what to do if theirs is someone beside u have the mind of going to suicide.
What do they need?
They need more volunteers as they receive an average of more than 100 calls a day. There are probably many more callers therefore the number of calls they have is limited by the number of volunteers available to answer those calls.
Who are their clients?
Their clients are the people who are despairing, discouraged or distressed as they are a help line who helps the people from thinking about suicide. Or people whose friend got the sign of suicide can call and ask for help.
The organisation we compare with is The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP) the leading national not-for-profit organization exclusively dedicated to understanding and preventing suicide through research, education and advocacy, and to reaching out to people with mental disorders and those impacted by suicide.
They follow five core strategies:
- Funds scientific research
- Offers educational programs for professionals
- Educates the public about mood disorders and suicide prevention
- Promotes policies and legislation that impact suicide and prevention
- Provides programs and resources for survivors of suicide loss and people at risk, and involves them in the work of the Foundation.
Comparing this 2 website SOS and AFSP, SOS have a more interactive and not so boring web page while AFSP have a basic webpage but SOS make their web interactive until a point that is it hard to navigate and making people confuse. SOS does provide information but the information they provide is not as much as AFSP. AFSP provides a lot of information in their webpage and is easy to navigate. Also SOS does not use a social network media like AFSP. Using a social networking media can make them more well known and people can find them more easily. For example Facebook is a good social networking which connects people together now. People can invite their friends and the cycle will continue and thus more and more people will know about their SOS.
