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“Project EMpower” – Ethnic Minority Youth Enhancement Scheme

Project Approved in 2019

This project aims at providing comprehensive and structural intervention to ethnic minority youths and ethnic minority drug abusers aged 12-24. Project elements include school talk or exhibition and outreach service with fitness elements for ethnic minority youths, photography exhibition for the general public, VR workshop, sports training, life education programme, volunteer service, career and life planning workshop, with brief counselling for at-risk ethnic minority youths, relapse prevention group (adventure-based training or art therapy) with Motivational Interviewing element for drug abusing ethnic minority youths, as well as referral made for those who require further counselling or medical support.

Embrace Life, Embrace Yourself – Integrated Anti-drug Service Scheme for Female and Transgender Female Sex Workers

Project Approved in 2019

This project aims at providing an integrated anti-drug service to enhance the knowledge of female and transgender female sex workers on the harm of drug use and cultivating a healthy lifestyle to lower their risk of drug abuse. Project elements include individual and outreach visits, group activities, hotline and online outreaching, group and centre-based activities, production of anti-drug booklets and souvenirs, provision of counselling, medical and referral services to female and transgender sex workers with drug abuse problems. Training workshops for frontline workers from medical, social service and education sectors and tertiary school students will also be organised.

One Further Step. Stand Against Drugs

Project Approved in 2019

This project, launched in collaboration with the Federation of Parent Teacher Associations in Kwun Tong District Limited and Kwun Tong Schools Liaison Committee, aims at providing professional counselling services for hidden drug abusers and creating a supporting atmosphere for drug rehabilitation in the Kowloon East. Project elements include family intervention and counselling, community promotion and education, as well as professional training.

ImPerfect

Project Approved in 2019

This project aims at engaging potential young adult female drug abusers for treatment through art therapy and empowering family members, social workers and teachers in supporting drug abusers. Project elements include physical, online and peer driven outreach services, an offline and online drug awareness and education program, drug T&R services, therapeutic group and art-based experiential workshop, time-out sessions and medical assessment/services, and vocational training cum job placement for drug abusers, community workshop for high-risk youths and community members will also be organised.

No Weed Chill Out – Drug Prevention and Counselling Scheme

Project Approved in 2019

This project aims at building up young people and general public’s awareness and knowledge on the harms of cannabis and providing comprehensive support to high-risk youths and young drug abusers. Project elements include VR anti-drug experience, real escape game, talks and group activities for tertiary students, physical outreach for high-risk youths, provision of assessment, story-telling counselling and Chinese medical referral for follow-up for high-risk youths and young drug abusers. Anti-drug talks and workshops on the harms of cannabis for family members of drug abusers will also be organised.

Project MAP – Meaning-Centered Approach Drug Education and Counselling Program

Project Approved in 2019

This project aims at adopting “Meaning-Centered Approach (MCA)” with “Stepped Care Model” for early identification and intervention for high-risk youths and drug abusers with mental health issues using VR technology and activity-based programs. Project elements include anti-drug education and intervention program, anti-drug prevention group and experiential program, counselling and treatment program, professional training workshops and project-end experience sharing session for social workers for promotion of MCA and dissemination of project outcome, as well as evaluation on the effectiveness of MCA for drug education, prevention and counselling, and publication of MCA manual and handbook.

Happy and Healthy Family Scheme 2.0

Project Approved in 2019

This project aims at enhancing parenting capacity of drug using/drug rehabilitee parents, as well as enhancing competence of social workers working with drug using parents. Project elements include reunion programme for drug using parents and their children, recovery programme and parent-child relationship enhancement programme for drug rehabilitee parents and their children, volunteer training programme for rehabilitee parents, professional training for social workers working with children of drug-using families.

A Drug Free Pluralistic and Harmonious Community – A Community Based Reaching Out Drug Prevention and Intervention for High-risk and Hidden Non-ethnic Chinese 2.0

Project Approved in 2019

This project aims at raising anti-drug awareness among ethnic minority communities and reach out to ethnic minority high risk individuals and families for early identification and referral of drug abusers. Project elements include public drug awareness workshops for ethnic minority community, outreaching to high risk ethnic minority hot spots and to provide on-the spot counselling and intervention to ethnic minority individuals and their families, follow-up counselling services for high risk individuals and their family members, referral of ethnic minority drug abusers and high-risk ethnic minority individuals to medical treatment and/or rehabilitation treatment, integrated internship programmes for ethnic minority high-risk individuals and drug abusers and skill development and leisure activities for general youths, high risk-targets and hidden drug abusers in the ethnic minority communities.

Mindful Break – Short Term Treatment Programme

Project Approved in 2019

This project aims at outreaching drug abusers from the community and provide intensive short-term residential treatment programme to them as well as counselling support to their family members. Project elements include outreaching and sharing, referral, early assessment and counselling services, short-term residential treatment and follow up services.

MedPAC Hotline: A Medical Peer Addiction Counselling Hotline Service for Drug-abusing Youth and Young Adults

Project Approved in 2019

This project aims at launching a Medical Peer Addiction Counselling (MedPAC) hotline service for young drug abusers. Project elements include (a) collaboration with secondary and tertiary schools, youth organisations and high-pressure industry to promote the hotline service; (b) training to undergraduates and master degree students from the medical school and nursing department of the University of Hong Kong to become telephone peer counsellor; and (c) launching the hotline for drug abusers or ex-drug abusers. Referral to drug treatment services will be available upon obtaining client’s consent.