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CROSS Fitness - a community-based rehabilitation project

Project Approved in 2016

This project aims at encouraging drug abusers to live a healthier lifestyle and enhancing their motivation to quit drug or maintain drug free through exercise-based intervention. The project covers three main stages. Stage 1 is the Assessment and Motivation Enhancement Stage for drug abusers; Stage 2 is the Exercise-based Intervention Stage for drug abusers and their family members; and Stage 3 is the Consolidation Stage for trainees to provide voluntary social service with sports elements to high-risk youths, general public and inmates in Residential Drug Treatment Centres.

Happy and Healthy Family Scheme

Project Approved in 2016

This project aims at enhancing the parenting capacity of drug-abusing / ex-drug abusing parents as well as enhancing the competence of social workers working with drug using families. The project elements include a Family Reunion Programme for drug-abusing parents and their children, and a Family Enhancement Programme for ex-drug abusing parents and their children. Professional training and sharing session for social workers working with drug-using families will also be organised.

A Drug free Pluralistic and Harmony Community - A community based reaching out drug prevention and intervention for high-risk and hidden non-Chinese ethnic youth

Project Approved in 2016

This project aims at spreading anti-drug messages and providing community-based invention to high-risk non-Chinese ethnic youths and potential drug abusers. Project activities include outreaching, on-the-spot crisis intervention and counselling, medical check-up and assessment, mutual support groups, vocational training, leisure building classes, employment counselling and job referral. Mobile information kiosks and mobile Wi-Fi hotspots will be set up in non-Chinese ethnic shops or public parks.

Provision of steady vocational training in (1) Plumbing and Pipe-fitting; and (2) Painting and Decoration for Residents of Shek Kwu Chau Treatment and Rehabilitation Centre

Project Approved in 2016

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 re-integration into the community. It also aims at enhancing self-efficacy of youths/students to refuse drugs through community education. The project involves provision of plumbing and pipe fitting and painting and decoration courses for rehabilitees. Course graduates will be arranged to attend trade test accreditations, to provide community services and conduct anti-drug talk/sharing session.

A Randomized Control Trial to study the effectiveness of the Mobile Functional Cognition Program for persons who substance abuse

Project Approved in 2016

This project aims at investigating the effectiveness of the Mobile Functional Cognition Program (MFCP) in improving drug abusers’ cognitive functioning. The project involves provision of MFCP (including pre-assessment and recovery planning, mobile functional cognition training and post-assessment and round up) and conventional psychoeducation for drug abusers. Aftercare meetings and case conferences will be conducted with staff from the referral agencies. A study will be conducted to compare the cognitive abilities and community functioning of the two groups of drug abusers who received different treatment.

藝述共融

Project Approved in 2016

This project aims at increasing public understanding towards drug rehabilitees and enhancing the self-esteem of rehabilitees through photography. Photography assisted group sessions will be conducted for rehabilitees. Photos exhibition will then be organised and photo album and postcards published to promote community acceptance of treatment and rehabilitation services.

Enhancing abstinence by novel approach of metacognitive intervention and life style re-design

Project Approved in 2016

This project aims at helping drug abusers to reduce drug use, improve their self-efficacy to avoid drug abuse, and reintegrate into society. The project offers each participant initial intake and core intervention sessions of treatment program, adopting an integration of Occupational Life Style Re-design and metacognitive intervention. After-care sessions will be conducted subject to the needs of the participants. Group activities will also be organised for helping participants to gain positive emotion and experience.

Equipping families to fight drugs

Project Approved in 2016

This project aims at strengthening support and providing training to family members of drug rehabilitees. Educational seminars and family support groups will be organised for family members. The project also aims to recruit reformed drug abusers as rehabilitation officers to share their life experience and provide motivational support to the participants.

Children Friendly Supportive Service – Substance Abuse Counselling Project

Project Approved in 2016

This project aims at facilitating adult substance abusers in tackling drug abuse problem and related medical, family relationship, parenting problems, and preventing inter-generational substance abuse patterns. Project activities include martial and children counselling, parenting groups, medical supportive services, substance abuse training and reaching out services, intensive training workshops and clinical groups for social workers. A publication will also be prepared for sharing the experiences in working with the families in drug counselling.

Extend community clinic service

Project Approved in 2016

This project aims at facilitating the continuity of drug treatment and rehabilitation services by providing outreach psychiatric nurse and social work service for substance abusers as well as for their family members or carers with emotional problems. Services to be covered by the project include professional and comprehensive assessment for substance abusers in residential and community-based service units serving substance abusers, face-to-face or video psychiatric consultation to substance abusers, professional and multi-disciplinary interventions, assessment and treatment including referrals and collaboration among hospitals and NGOs for parents or carers with emotional problems, and group activities for both substance abusers and family members/ carers.