Community Integration

PA through its Grassroots Organisations (GROs) and Integration and Naturalisation Champions (INCs), help new citizens and Permanent Residents (PRs) settle in the community, providing platforms for them to interact with and bond with the local residents. Through their participation in various integration-centric programmes and GRO programmes/activities, the new immigrants can make friends and develop mutual understanding with their neighbours and other residents in the community.

• Integration and Naturalisation Champions
• PA's Systematic and Continuous Engagement Framework
• Integration Programmes

Integration and Naturalisation Champions (INCs) initiate and spearhead integration and naturalisation programmes in the local community. INCs actively reach out to new citizens/PRs by conducting house visits to welcome and invite them to join grassroots activities to expand their social network. INCs also organise various grassroots activities such as welcome tea parties and festive celebrations to engage new citizens/PRs.

To achieve the key objective of PA’s integration efforts to widen our outreach and deepen engagement with new citizens/PRs (new immigrants), PA developed the Systematic and Continuous Engagement Framework which conceptualises the different levels of engagement attained systematically and continuously through participating in a series of focused programmes and activities.

• Functional connection > House visits and welcome tea receptions
  
  
• Social Connections > Community sharing sessions, Festive celebrations, Community Learning Journey/ National Education Programme, Group Representation Constituency tours, Block parties, Floor parties, Interest groups, CC courses.
  
  
• Active involvement > Regular participation in community activities.
  
  
• Emotional attachment > Join as grassroots leaders, volunteers – help to organise block and floor parties, lead interest groups.

• House Visits and Welcome/Floor Parties
  
  
• INC Activities
  
  
• Integration of New Immigrants through Interest Groups
  
  
• Community Learning Journey (previously known as PA National Education Programme)
  
  
• Singapore Experiential Tour and Community Sharing Session (part of the Singapore Citizenship Journey for new citizens)
  
  
• Citizenship ceremony
  

Find out more about the Integration Programmes through this Community Learning Journey brochure.