Enabling Skills for Life Programme

Overview

The Enabling Skills for Life Programme (ESLP), an initiative by the Ministry of Social and Family Development and SG Enable, equips persons with disabilities with functional skills to enhance independence, community participation, and employability. The three-year proof-of-concept, which starts in October 2025, takes a person-centred training approach, supporting lifelong learning and community integration.

ESLP draws from the Enabling Skills and Competencies Framework and creates personalised development plans in independent living, communication, social-emotional functioning, and vocational readiness. These plans are implemented and refined as each individual progresses through life.

Recognising the integral role of caregivers, ESLP also actively engages and enables them to reinforce the learning of their loved ones at home and in the community.


Who Can Apply?

Please note that during the proof-of-concept phase, ESLP will primarily serve existing clients who are transiting to the programme within the centres listed under ‘ESLP Service Providers’.

  1. 18 years old and above[1][2]
  2. A Singapore Citizen or Permanent Resident[3]
  3. Have a permanent disability based on any one of the following:
    • Physical Disability – Requires assistance with at least one of the six Activities of Daily Living (ADLs) due to physical impairment
    • Moderate visual impairment or worse in the better eye
    • Moderate hearing loss or worse in the better ear
    • Intellectual Disability
    • Autism

    Proof of disability must be provided using the Disability Verification Form[4] completed by a relevant registered Healthcare Professional.

  4. Applicants should not have any untreated infectious disease.

Footnotes:

1Applicants who are below age 21 will need consent of parents or legal guardians for their application.

2Applicants who are aged 21 and above with no mental capacity, will need the consent of the appointed deputy(s)/donee(s) on behalf of the applicant.

3For Permanent Residents, at least one immediate family member must be a Singapore Citizen. Immediate family members refer to spouses, parents, children of the applicant, including stepparents and stepchildren.

4From 8 September 2025, the Disability Verification Form (DVF) is the standardised proof of disability required to verify an individual’s disability status when applying for selected MSF disability schemes and services and other selected Government schemes. Applicants can check if their disability status is already verified via their Touchpoints, SupportGoWhere, or call SG Enable at 1800-8585-885.


ESLP Service Providers

The ESLP proof-of-concept will be run by MINDS, SPD and Thye Hua Kwan Moral Charities at these locations:

  • MINDS Regional Hub (Woodlands)
  • MINDS Community Hub (Kebun Bahru)
  • MINDS Community Hub (Yishun)
  • SPD Ability Centre
  • THK bloom ESLP @ Eunos Crescent
  • THK bloom ESLP @ Geylang Bahru


More Information

For more information about ESLP, please refer to the following:

Have additional enquiries? Contact SG Enable at contactus@sgenable.sg or call 1800-8585-885.

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