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CATCH II-Families Support Scheme

Project Approved in 2017

This project aims at supporting family members of drug abusers in West Kowloon by promoting self-care awareness as well as physical and psychological health through an integrative body-mind-spirit approach. Through engaging the family members of drug abusers, it aims at enhancing hidden drug abusers’ motivation to quit drugs. Project elements include casework, individual and family counselling, family-based activities and self-enhancement workshop.

Marvel Imprint

Project Approved in 2017

This project aims at serving pregnant and postnatal drug abusers together with their family members in Kowloon West. Project elements include support and counselling service, parenting service and community involvement activities.

Precious Journey – A Supportive Project for Parents with Drug Abuse Behaviour

Project Approved in 2017

This project aims at providing comprehensive services for drug-abusing pregnant women and mothers together with their family members and children. Project elements include self-care service, childcare skill training and service, parent-child attachment programme and family functioning programme.

“Equip for New Stage”: Integration of Vocational Training and Relapse Prevention for Rehabilitee’s Recovery Program

Project Approved in 2017

This project aims at enhancing vocational skills of rehabilitees and their sense of self-efficacy, reducing their relapse rates and facilitating their reintegration into society. Project elements include vocational training services such as career-oriented assessment, aptitude tests, career and life planning counselling, and relapse-prevention counselling such as relapse crisis assessments.

“A Better Man Project”

Project Approved in 2017

This project aims at providing support to young male drug abusers and rehabilitees aged 21-35 in Kowloon East, motivating them to seek treatment and quit drugs, and preventing inter-generational drug problem. Project elements include outreaching services and counselling services to young male and training workshops to frontline anti-drug social workers.

Pink Pal

Project Approved in 2017

This project aims at providing training to frontline anti-drug personnel and tertiary school students in relevant fields to enhance their capability in handling drug abuse cases among the sexual minority population. Project elements include training on latest drug scenes, drug abuse cases among the sexual minority population, counselling skills, drug-related legal knowledge, sharing session by former abuser and visit to local drug rehabilitation and service facilities.

“Special Care for the Special Mothers” 2.0

Project Approved in 2017

This project aims at providing comprehensive residential drug rehabilitation programme for pregnant rehabilitees. Project elements include medical care, psychosocial counselling, psychological therapy, parenting skill training, aftercare services, family activities, supportive services to family members, sharing by peer counsellors and guided tours for the general public.

Project CHANGE: Training for Professional Teams to Enhance Their Sensitivity to MSM and Drug Users

Project Approved in 2017

This project aims at enhancing drug rehabilitation support service workers and/or health care professionals’ knowledge about “Men having sex with Men” (MSM) community and their competency in handling MSM drug abuse cases. Project elements include training workshops and field visits to MSM hot spots and training for former drug-abusing MSM to become peer counsellors.

A multilevel analysis of the demography of drug abuse in Hong Kong

Project Approved in 2017

This project aims at constructing a ‘demography of drug abuse’ in Hong Kong so as to identify the rates of changes of (different types of) drug-abusing behaviour by socio-economic, geographic and demographic characteristics. A multilevel statistical analysis will be made in a bid to derive the main determinants affecting the population of (different types of) drug abuse and how such determinants change over time.

Infrared Pupillometry and Eye-tracking as Next-generation Non-Intrusive Means to Identify Subjects Under Influence of Psychoactive Drug and Vision-related Harms

Project Approved in 2017

This project aims at creating an age-stratified, gender-matched, race-specific (dark pupil), normative (drug-free) and drug-related database on Infrared Pupillometry and Eye-Tracking (IP&ET) parameters.