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Caritas Project Hyacinth – Project Teams Love

Project Approved in 2020

This project aims at providing services to young drug abusing parents to enable them to quit drugs. Project elements include anti-drug education at maternal and child health centres, youth centres, SSD and residential homes for high-risk youths, training rehabilitated drug abusers to disseminate online drug prevention messages, individual and family counselling for drug abusers and their family members, outreach support, parenting skill training and stress relieving relapse prevention group, vocational training, career life planning, job hunting skill training and job trial opportunities for drug abusing or rehabilitated parents.

Project Butterfly

Project Approved in 2020

This project aims at improving the motivation of hidden drug abusers to seek treatment and quit drugs. Project elements include regular venue-based outreach at courts, Correctional Services Department facilities and entertainment venues, Internet-based outreach to identify hidden high-risk youths, hidden drug abusers or their family members, crisis intervention including legal right education, emotional support, drug counselling, psycho-education workshops with different themes, therapeutic group service, medical assessment and treatment service, rapid drug test for hidden drug abusers, vocational training for hidden drug abusers to develop essential job skills, activities to strengthen family relationships, experience sharing workshops/groups and delivery of anti-drug and anti-crime messages in social media by peer educators.

Project RADAR III – A Counselling and Treatment Program for Young People with Hidden Drug Abuse Problems and Drug Related Criminal Offences

Project Approved in 2020

This project aims at providing anti-drug educational training to tertiary students and tailor-made counselling programme for high-risk youths, hidden youth drug abusers, youths convicted of drug-related criminal offence and their family members. Project elements include outreaching services, training workshops for parents and community stakeholders, recruitment and training of “anti-drug ambassadors”, online and offline preventive education on social media, professional counselling and assessment using cognitive behavioural therapy protocol and adopting the Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, medical services, positive lifestyle development and career skill trainings for drug abusing youth or their family members, big data analysis and hosting a media event to disseminate project end outcome.

Project CHOICE II – Community-based Healthy Life Style Online and Offline Interactive Comprehensive Educational Project

Project Approved in 2020

This project aims at enhancing awareness of drug harms of cannabis use or other drugs through online and offline multi-media education and counselling service. Project elements include production of educational videos and messages, dissemination of anti-drug messages via Instagram/Facebook, online outreaching with referral system and risk assessment on cannabis use, recruitment of secondary/tertiary school students to become “anti-cannabis peer KOLs”, anti-cannabis trainings and workshops, mobile exhibition screening, cognitive behavioural therapy and motivational interviewing counselling, professional training cum sharing, publication of anti-cannabis resource pack and conducting a qualitative research on cannabis use among youths in Hong Kong.

Project C.H.O.I.C.E.

Project Approved in 2020

This project aims at inspiring and developing positive values and lifestyle of high risk youths and occasional/habitual drug abusing youths through various multi-dimension healthy activities, as well as disseminating anti-drug messages to their peers, families and members of the public via production of short videos. Project elements include interest classes, experiential activities and camp for high-risk youths, experiential activities, community stations, providing training workshop for production of anti-drug film, short videos with KOL and sharing of the videos on social media for further dissemination of anti-drug messages.

“TEENs Talk” – Say “NO” To Drug Use Preventive Project

Project Approved in 2020

This project aims at strengthening the awareness of the harmful effects of drug, especially cannabis, among international school students and ethnic minority students, as well as reinforcing a healthy lifestyle among the participants. Project elements include anti-drug talks and workshops focusing on cannabis for parents of international schools and ethnic minority communities; “TEENs Talk” talk show competition with anti-drug elements; and subsequent putting of the “Talk show” videos on social media to increase the exposure and widen the effects in the community.

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.