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“Re-structuring Life, A Better Tomorrow” – Strengthening Inpatient and Aftercare Support for Drug Rehabilitees 2.0

Project Approved in 2020

This project aims at providing aftercare services for rehabilitated drug abusers discharged from Shek Kwu Chau Treatment and Rehabilitation Centre and enhance their resistance towards drugs and promote social reintegration and culture communion. Project elements include individual counselling sessions, aftercare visits, medical treatment and referral services, mutual support groups, volunteer services and vocational training programs, language courses, various interest classes, outdoor leisure activities, family visits, festive celebrations as well as setting up a multicultural music band and music performance for rehabilitated drug abusers of both Chinese and non-Chinese origins as well as general public.

SACH-IV: Anti-drug Prevention and Treatment Scheme (HIV Infected and High Risk Groups)

Project Approved in 2020

This project aims at improving the motivation to quit drugs among HIV-infected drug abusers, promoting inter-disciplinary and cross-sector collaboration to deal with specific drug abuse patterns of HIV-infected persons and providing preventive education to tertiary students, professional teachers and high-risk population for HIV infection. Project elements include individual and group counselling sessions, preventive education about Chem Fun/Chem Sex culture and volunteer group programme to HIV-infected drug abusers or high-risk population for HIV-infected drug abusers, group counselling sessions to family members or partners of HIV-infected persons, professional sharing sessions on drug abuse and public events for anti-drug preventive education.

Provision of Steady Vocational Training in (1) Plumbing & Pipefitting; and (2) Painting & Decoration and Mandatory Basic Safety Training (Construction Work) Course for Rehabilitees in Shek Kwu Chau Treatment and Rehabilitation Centre

Project Approved in 2020

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 reintegration into the community, as well as enhancing self-efficacy of youths/students to refuse drugs through community education. Project elements include provision of plumbing and pipe fitting and painting and decoration courses for drug rehabilitees, providing career counselling and assigning course graduates to provide community services such as conducting anti-drug talks/sharing sessions in secondary schools.

Mindfulness Training: Women-Focused Rehabilitation & After-care Project

Project Approved in 2020

This project aims at providing mindfulness-based treatment and vocational training courses to female drug rehabilitees of Adult Female Rehabilitation Centre, as well as uplifting their sense of self-efficacy to avoid relapse and facilitating them to reintegrate into the society. Project elements include yoga training cum health talk programme, relapse prevention counselling, mindfulness-based training course, pre-employment workshop and vocational training course, life skills training, mother parenting skills training, counselling for family members of drug rehabilitees and after-care service for rehabilitated drug abusers, as well as arranging school talks to secondary school students.

Chinese Medicine Treatment of Drug Sequelae cum Preliminary Exploration of Cannabis Treatment

Project Approved in 2020

This project aims at establishing a “Medical and Social Comprehensive Treatment Model” to identify hidden drug abusers who develop sequelae after taking cannabis, “Ice” and cocaine, providing free Chinese medical treatment and counselling support to motivate hidden drug abusers to receive treatment and enhancing awareness of drug harms of cannabis among primary to tertiary students. Project elements include health related anti-drug educational seminars for students in secondary and tertiary school and community organisations, a two-week treatment programme under the exploration study titled “Chinese Medicine Treatment of Cannabis” making use of Chinese medicine prescriptions to treat cannabis abusers, offering a six-week advanced treatment to cannabis abusers, an eight-week Chinese medicine treatment for “Ice”/cocaine abusers to reduce the sequelae of drug abuse, caring and supportive services for drug abusers, and experience sharing session on the treatment outcomes for social workers, teachers and general public.

Project BEAT – Trauma-focused Intervention for Substance Abuse Families

Project Approved in 2020

This project aims at serving drug dependent persons and their family members or partners in Kowloon West district to enhance their awareness about relationship between addiction and trauma experience and their skills on establishing safeness and self-regulation. Project elements include case follow-up sessions, group sessions and therapeutic sessions with cooperation with multi-disciplinary professionals for drug depndent persons and their family members or partners.

Precious Journey 2.0 – A Supportive Project for Parents with Drug Abuse Behaviour

Project Approved in 2020

This project aims at providing comprehensive services for drug abusing pregnant women and mothers together with their family members and children. Project elements include comprehensive assessment, individual counselling, medical escort service, antenatal and postnatal care service, multi-disciplinary collaboration service, home visit and home observation, tailor-made resource for child care, co-learning group, Circle of Security Parenting^TM program and parallel play group and joint counselling interview.

Hard Core – Heart Core

Project Approved in 2020

This project aims at strengthening anti-drug attitude of young offenders and their peers, offering support for young drug dependent persons and providing preventive education. Project elements include casework counselling with anti-drug elements for rehabilitated offenders discharged from hostels managed by Correctional Services Department, activities for rebuilding social network and therapeutic sessions for young rehabilitated offenders and their peers, and anti-drug talks for students, young adults outside school network and non-Chinese speaking persons.

Arts Heals – Expressive Arts in Drugs Rehabilitation & Community Health Education

Project Approved in 2020

This project aims at providing treatment with the use of expressive arts therapy. Project elements include expressive arts therapy groups, parent-child expressive arts workshops and arts exhibition.

DrugFree4Health – EdUHK I-WELL Drug Abuse Prevention Education Program in Tertiary Institutions

Project Approved in 2020

This project aims at strengthening the anti-drug awareness of Chinese speaking and non-Chinese speaking tertiary students in The Education University of Hong Kong (EdUHK) through in-depth trainings and active participation in drug-related volunteer services for drug rehabilitees. Project elements include anti-drug abuse ambassador scheme, anti-drug curriculum design competitions for students of EdUHK. Trained students will provide service to drug rehabilitees and organise anti-drug talks together with rehabilitees to serve upper primary and secondary students.