Acknowledgements The Campus Community Engagement (CCE) program is a voluntary initiative by Monash University Malaysia spanning from December 2019 to April 2020. Due to the Covid-19 outbreak, the final presentation date was pushed back from February to April 2020. The purpose of the program is to identify an issue/issues at a NGO and combine the talents of multi-disciplinary students to propose a potential solution to said issue. Our group consists of the three of us, Daniel Goh U-Sheng (School of Information Technology), Wong Keen Ji (School of Me dicine & Health Sciences, Psychology) and Aaron Ng Shong Po (School of Medicine & Health Sciences, Psychology), whereby we were placed under the agency called Pertubuhan Keluarga Orang-Orang Bermasalah Pembelajaran (PERKOBP). The General Secretary of PERKOBP, Mr Chng Cheng Hui, was our Field Educator (FE), and the lecturer overseeing us, Dr Goh Pei Hwa from the School of Medicine & Health Sciences who is a Psych...
An excellent preliminary study to capture the needs of PERKOBP residents work readiness skills among others. The results obtained served as important information to develop the modules. You have learnt the basic requirements of a health promotion project. Your findings will serve useful if the administrators of PERKOBP wish to apply for a grant to carry your suggested projects.
ReplyDeleteSorry for the late reply! And thank you :D We do hope that our work will be of use to PERKOBP and also to the wider community.
DeleteThis is an excellent and well-researched plan. Do you have anyone with the expertise to provide the training in these methods to PERKOBP? And what are the resources involved like?
ReplyDeleteSorry for late reply! And thank you :D As of now, we do not have anyone specific in mind to provide the necessary training, but we do hope that volunteers with expertise (e.g. from other NGOs or universities) in the relevant areas could help provide the training or even conduct some of the activities in the module. Depending on the activity, the resources involved are mostly trained individuals to conduct the activities and some materials needed for the specific activity.
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