Youth
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Tinkle Friend
A phone and webchat line for children aged 13 and under, run by the Singapore Children’s Society. Weekday afternoons.
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REACH
The team that sits between a school and the Institute of Mental Health. Works with schools and families, usually reached through the school.
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CHAT @ IMH
A confidential mental health check for anyone aged 16 to 30. No referral, and it is not held inside a hospital.
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Your teenager has stopped coping. What a parent in Singapore can do.
The signs that warrant action, how to open the conversation without closing it, and the specific routes available: school counsellor, GP, CHAT, REACH, 1771.
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Streaming ended. The pressure did not.
Full Subject-Based Banding replaced Express, Normal Academic and Normal Technical for the 2024 Secondary 1 cohort. What actually changed, what did not, and why parents are often reassuring their child…
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School and exam pressure
What support actually exists inside Singapore schools, where to go outside them, what changed when streaming ended, and what a parent can do when a teenager stops coping.