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WeCycle IV

Project Approved in 2020

This project aims at encouraging drug abusers to live a healthy lifestyle through sport intervention therapy and vocational training, voluntary services for the needy and guided tours. Project elements include bike training or community care training to rehabilitated drug abusers, having rehabilitated drug abusers to conduct guided tours for secondary and tertiary students, teachers, social workers, high-risk youths and general public, having trainees of bike and community care training to provide voluntary services for the need and producing a publication for experience sharing with students and general public.

LGBT Drug Prevention Service

Project Approved in 2020

This project aims at providing targeted prevention education and treatment for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community and enhancing the capability of frontline workers in working with the LGBT youths and their families. Project elements include production of videos and posters with anti-drug messages targeting the LGBT community, conducting online outreach, physical outreach during various gays events and providing motivational interviews and drug education to gay community during HIV test outreach, counselling, group-based resilience-enhancement activities and medical support with psychiatric assessment and treatment, general medical consultation or Chinese medical support or treatment for high-risk and drug taking LGBT youths, and organising professional training workshops for social workers.

“Starfish” Integrative Aftercare and Outreach Project

Project Approved in 2020

This project aims at enhancing the self-esteem and a healthy lifestyle of drug rehabilitees through volunteer training sessions, voluntary services and aftercare services. Project elements include engaging participants in basic training and voluntary services, providing selected participants with advanced training and voluntary services, including visiting sessions for aftercare cases, providing aftercare follow-up services to rehabilitated dru abusers and co-ordinating aftercare activities with the project social worker and psychiatric nurse, organising integrated aftercare activities by social worker and psychiatric nurse, dissemination of anti-drug messages via “outreach health station” and conducting graduation ceremony and experience sharing session.

“Life Recreate” – Identification with Crisis Intervention and Bibliotherapy Services Program for Hidden Substance Abusers and Their Families

Project Approved in 2020

This project aims at motivating the drug abusers to quit drugs and maintain abstinence by using picture books as an intervention, and promoting anti-drug messages to hidden drug abusers and general public. Project elements include promoting general anti-drug messages and help seek information through media, providing intervention and counselling service to hidden drug abusers and their family members in the form of talks, individual interview, family visits, picture book counselling and reading club, providing drug treatment and rehabilitation service including dental check to hidden drug abusers, organising “Identification and Crisis Intervention Services for Hidden Drug Abusers” experience sharing session for drug rehabilitation field workers, and video producton, broadcast of picture book via social media and sharing by ex-drug abusers to enhance community members’ acceptance.

“Re-structuring Life, A Better Tomorrow” – Strengthening Inpatient and Aftercare Support for Drug Rehabilitees 2.0

Project Approved in 2020

This project aims at providing aftercare services for rehabilitated drug abusers discharged from Shek Kwu Chau Treatment and Rehabilitation Centre and enhance their resistance towards drugs and promote social reintegration and culture communion. Project elements include individual counselling sessions, aftercare visits, medical treatment and referral services, mutual support groups, volunteer services and vocational training programs, language courses, various interest classes, outdoor leisure activities, family visits, festive celebrations as well as setting up a multicultural music band and music performance for rehabilitated drug abusers of both Chinese and non-Chinese origins as well as general public.

SACH-IV: Anti-drug Prevention and Treatment Scheme (HIV Infected and High Risk Groups)

Project Approved in 2020

This project aims at improving the motivation to quit drugs among HIV-infected drug abusers, promoting inter-disciplinary and cross-sector collaboration to deal with specific drug abuse patterns of HIV-infected persons and providing preventive education to tertiary students, professional teachers and high-risk population for HIV infection. Project elements include individual and group counselling sessions, preventive education about Chem Fun/Chem Sex culture and volunteer group programme to HIV-infected drug abusers or high-risk population for HIV-infected drug abusers, group counselling sessions to family members or partners of HIV-infected persons, professional sharing sessions on drug abuse and public events for anti-drug preventive education.

Provision of Steady Vocational Training in (1) Plumbing & Pipefitting; and (2) Painting & Decoration and Mandatory Basic Safety Training (Construction Work) Course for Rehabilitees in Shek Kwu Chau Treatment and Rehabilitation Centre

Project Approved in 2020

This project aims at providing structured vocational training to residents of Shek Kwu Chau Treatment and Rehabilitation Centre to enhance their employability and facilitate their reintegration into the community, as well as enhancing self-efficacy of youths/students to refuse drugs through community education. Project elements include provision of plumbing and pipe fitting and painting and decoration courses for drug rehabilitees, providing career counselling and assigning course graduates to provide community services such as conducting anti-drug talks/sharing sessions in secondary schools.

Mindfulness Training: Women-Focused Rehabilitation & After-care Project

Project Approved in 2020

This project aims at providing mindfulness-based treatment and vocational training courses to female drug rehabilitees of Adult Female Rehabilitation Centre, as well as uplifting their sense of self-efficacy to avoid relapse and facilitating them to reintegrate into the society. Project elements include yoga training cum health talk programme, relapse prevention counselling, mindfulness-based training course, pre-employment workshop and vocational training course, life skills training, mother parenting skills training, counselling for family members of drug rehabilitees and after-care service for rehabilitated drug abusers, as well as arranging school talks to secondary school students.

Chinese Medicine Treatment of Drug Sequelae cum Preliminary Exploration of Cannabis Treatment

Project Approved in 2020

This project aims at establishing a “Medical and Social Comprehensive Treatment Model” to identify hidden drug abusers who develop sequelae after taking cannabis, “Ice” and cocaine, providing free Chinese medical treatment and counselling support to motivate hidden drug abusers to receive treatment and enhancing awareness of drug harms of cannabis among primary to tertiary students. Project elements include health related anti-drug educational seminars for students in secondary and tertiary school and community organisations, a two-week treatment programme under the exploration study titled “Chinese Medicine Treatment of Cannabis” making use of Chinese medicine prescriptions to treat cannabis abusers, offering a six-week advanced treatment to cannabis abusers, an eight-week Chinese medicine treatment for “Ice”/cocaine abusers to reduce the sequelae of drug abuse, caring and supportive services for drug abusers, and experience sharing session on the treatment outcomes for social workers, teachers and general public.

Project BEAT – Trauma-focused Intervention for Substance Abuse Families

Project Approved in 2020

This project aims at serving drug dependent persons and their family members or partners in Kowloon West district to enhance their awareness about relationship between addiction and trauma experience and their skills on establishing safeness and self-regulation. Project elements include case follow-up sessions, group sessions and therapeutic sessions with cooperation with multi-disciplinary professionals for drug depndent persons and their family members or partners.