ICPA2024 PID051 Poh Wah Ang and Asha Rathina Pandi

Community partnership in building a evidence-based, customised curriculum for mothers in prison to support children and families of drug offenders

Author

Ang Poh Wah

President, Women in Recovery Association

Poh Wah graduated from the University of Auckland, New Zealand with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology in 1985. She served a 5-month internship with Daytop Village Therapeutic Community, at Swanlake, a drug rehabilitation facility in New York, US in 2001. She was awarded the National Council against Drug Abuse (NCADA) Merit Award (2001) for her 3-year stint in The Turning Point and the Singapore International Foundation (SIF) Special Commendation Award (2012) as project leader, overseeing training for Laotians in drug rehabilitation from 2006 to 2012. She has served on the Board of Women in Recovery as President for many years.

She has been a counsellor since 1991 and has helped more than 1000 drug addicts for the past 30 years. She specialises in individual and group drug counselling. She helped develop the Family Engagement protocol for PFS Family Care when it was established in 2009 and trained their volunteers involved in the family visitation of inmates related to the Angel Tree project.

She formulated a theoretical framework addressing the recovery needs of drug addicts and implemented a 1-year rehabilitative treatment programme for drug addicts in a residential setting. She held a supervisory role in helping recovering drug addicts to become operational staff in a residential setting. She has been involved in consultative training on a freelance basis with Social Service Institute, Prison Fellowship, Christian Counselling Services, Halfway Houses and Singapore Prison Service and other social service agencies (SSAs) on drug rehabilitation and re-integration matters since the 1990s.

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