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Project Midnight Southray – Drug preventive service for high risk non-Chinese ethnic Night Youth Drifters through Midnight Outreach

Project Approved in 2015

The project aims at cultivating anti-drug attitude among ethnic minority high risk youth and young adult, promoting early help seeking and facilitating early identification of drug abusers. The project provides primary intervention at community level through midnight outreach. Anti-drug training workshops, health check, sharing sessions, visits to drug treatment and rehabilitation centres will be organised. Counselling and referrals will be provided to identified drug abusers.

An Integrated Humanistic and Cognitive-Behavioral Training Program to Promote Effective and Sustained Anti-Drug Work among Practitioners and Students of Social Work and Healthcare Professions

Project Approved in 2015

The project provides structured anti-drug training for social workers, healthcare professionals and tertiary students to enhance the participants’ knowledge and competence in working with drug abusers through an integrated approach of humanistic and cognitive-behavioral therapy. The project includes introductory workshops; advanced courses and clinical supervision courses; and web-based version of the courses for online access and self-learning.

Project Bridge-5-Step Method for promoting wellbeing of the family members of substance abusers and motivating hidden substance abusers to seek treatment

Project Approved in 2015

The project aims at promoting the well-being of family members of the drug abusers with a view to identifying hidden drug abusers and motivating them to seek treatment. The project is divided into four phases. Phase 1 includes focus groups to explore the needs and provide feedback on the 5-Step Method intervention manual; Phase 2 includes training workshops on 5-step Method and Collective Motivational Interviewing (CMI) for frontline staff; Phase 3 includes group sessions for the affected family members by trained 5-Step Method facilitators and conjoint interview with application of CMI for hidden drug abusers and affected family members; and Phase 4 includes an evaluation to measure the change in psychological indicators of participants.

Say Yes to Future, Say No to Drugs

Project Approved in 2015

The project provides preventive education to general public and high-risk youth, as well as vocational training to ex-drug abusers. It includes anti-drug training workshops; micro-film production and singing competition with anti-drug talks; volunteering activities for high-risk youth; and provision of vocational training for rehabilitees.

"Good Puzzle" - Multi-level intervention of health education and structured training project

Project Approved in 2015

The project aims at promoting anti-drug and healthy messages to at-risk adults and providing training to relevant stakeholders to enhance early identification skills. The project includes anti-drug talks and workshops for at-risk adults who are outside of school networks; training workshops and visits for social workers, counsellors, religious workers, and tertiary school students in social work, counselling and religious studies areas; and producing a booklet on drug counselling for various stakeholders.

“Chasing Life” –Internet and physical outreach program for identification and Brief Motivational Intervention for Hidden Substance Abusers and their families

Project Approved in 2015

The project aims at identifying hidden drug abusers and their families as well as promoting anti-drug messages to high-risk youth and general public. The project includes providing online and on-site outreaching to facilitate early identification of drug abusers and their families; providing intervention service to drug abusers and their families including medical treatment, health check, individual counselling and family counselling; and arrange referrals as appropriate.

抗「毒」大本營

Project Approved in 2015

The project aims at providing a series of training to frontline anti-drug personnel and tertiary school students in relevant fields with a view to enhancing their capability in handling increasingly complex psychotropic substance abuse case. The project comprises of thematic seminars on the latest development of the drug scenes and anti-drug practices etc.; sharing sessions on featured cases by ex-drug abusers; and visits to local drug rehabilitation and service facilities.

Comprehensive Drug Rehabilitation Programme for Young Adults and South Asian Queers

Project Approved in 2015

The project provides drug rehabilitation services to queers and anti-drug education to their communities. The project components include outreaching service; community-based drug retreatment and rehabilitation services; anti-drug education programme for queers, their partners and parents; and anti-drug supporting service to queers including counselling and casework services.

One-year Training on Integrated Cognitive-Behaviour Intervention for Social Workers working with Youth Drug Abusers

Project Approved in 2015

The project aims at developing an integrated cognitive-behavioural therapeutic (CBT) model for helping young drug abusers. It will provide systematic training, intervention and supervision in two phases. Phase 1 provides comprehensive training workshops for frontline anti-drug social workers in the anti-drug field. In Phase 2, social workers will deliver integrated CBT to young drug abusers. A training manual on the integrated CBT model for young drug abusers will also be produced.

Substance abuse counselling for HIV/AIDS-infected drug abusers

Project Approved in 2015

The project aims at (a) providing drug abuse counselling service to HIV/AIDS-infected drug abusers; (b) providing sharing sessions to professionals working in HIV clinics and HIV/AIDS service organisations; and (c) providing preventive education to HIV/AIDS-infected patients who are at risk of drug abuse. There will be collaboration with HIV clinics under Hospital Authority to serve HIV/AIDS patients who are at risk to drug abuse. The project activities include counselling sessions to HIV/AIDS-infected drug abusers; provision of sharing sessions on treatment of drug abuse for professionals working with HIV/AIDS-infected people; and provision of drug abuse counselling to patients infected with HIV/AIDS.