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No Weed Chill Out – Drug Prevention and Counselling Scheme

Project Approved in 2019

This project aims at building up young people and general public’s awareness and knowledge on the harms of cannabis and providing comprehensive support to high-risk youths and young drug abusers. Project elements include VR anti-drug experience, real escape game, talks and group activities for tertiary students, physical outreach for high-risk youths, provision of assessment, story-telling counselling and Chinese medical referral for follow-up for high-risk youths and young drug abusers. Anti-drug talks and workshops on the harms of cannabis for family members of drug abusers will also be organised.

Project MAP – Meaning-Centered Approach Drug Education and Counselling Program

Project Approved in 2019

This project aims at adopting “Meaning-Centered Approach (MCA)” with “Stepped Care Model” for early identification and intervention for high-risk youths and drug abusers with mental health issues using VR technology and activity-based programs. Project elements include anti-drug education and intervention program, anti-drug prevention group and experiential program, counselling and treatment program, professional training workshops and project-end experience sharing session for social workers for promotion of MCA and dissemination of project outcome, as well as evaluation on the effectiveness of MCA for drug education, prevention and counselling, and publication of MCA manual and handbook.

Happy and Healthy Family Scheme 2.0

Project Approved in 2019

This project aims at enhancing parenting capacity of drug using/drug rehabilitee parents, as well as enhancing competence of social workers working with drug using parents. Project elements include reunion programme for drug using parents and their children, recovery programme and parent-child relationship enhancement programme for drug rehabilitee parents and their children, volunteer training programme for rehabilitee parents, professional training for social workers working with children of drug-using families.

A Drug Free Pluralistic and Harmonious Community – A Community Based Reaching Out Drug Prevention and Intervention for High-risk and Hidden Non-ethnic Chinese 2.0

Project Approved in 2019

This project aims at raising anti-drug awareness among ethnic minority communities and reach out to ethnic minority high risk individuals and families for early identification and referral of drug abusers. Project elements include public drug awareness workshops for ethnic minority community, outreaching to high risk ethnic minority hot spots and to provide on-the spot counselling and intervention to ethnic minority individuals and their families, follow-up counselling services for high risk individuals and their family members, referral of ethnic minority drug abusers and high-risk ethnic minority individuals to medical treatment and/or rehabilitation treatment, integrated internship programmes for ethnic minority high-risk individuals and drug abusers and skill development and leisure activities for general youths, high risk-targets and hidden drug abusers in the ethnic minority communities.

Mindful Break – Short Term Treatment Programme

Project Approved in 2019

This project aims at outreaching drug abusers from the community and provide intensive short-term residential treatment programme to them as well as counselling support to their family members. Project elements include outreaching and sharing, referral, early assessment and counselling services, short-term residential treatment and follow up services.

MedPAC Hotline: A Medical Peer Addiction Counselling Hotline Service for Drug-abusing Youth and Young Adults

Project Approved in 2019

This project aims at launching a Medical Peer Addiction Counselling (MedPAC) hotline service for young drug abusers. Project elements include (a) collaboration with secondary and tertiary schools, youth organisations and high-pressure industry to promote the hotline service; (b) training to undergraduates and master degree students from the medical school and nursing department of the University of Hong Kong to become telephone peer counsellor; and (c) launching the hotline for drug abusers or ex-drug abusers. Referral to drug treatment services will be available upon obtaining client’s consent.

Empowered to Moveforward – Professional Training

Project Approved in 2019

This 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 and knowledge in handling drug-abusing ethnic minorities. Project elements include thematic seminars, sharing sessions by ex-drug abusers of ethnic minority, visits to local drug rehabilitation and service facilities, professional trainings organised for frontline anti-drug personnel and tertiary school students of related disciplines and student-led anti-drug promotion activities for dissemination of anti-drug messages in tertiary institutions.

Integrated Anti-Drug Service 3.0

Project Approved in 2019

This project aims at enhancing the anti-drug knowledge of gay population and gay drug abusers’ motivation to seek help and quit drugs. Project elements include preventive education to gay population including physical and internet outreaching services to disseminate anti-drug messages and recruitment of peer educators. Peer counsellors will produce an educational micro-movie and conduct further outreaching services. Individual assessment and referral to medical treatments will be provided for the needy. Chem Fun care programme will also be provided to encourage gay drug abusers to seek help and achieve better emotional control with physical exercises. In addition, professional training will be provided to social workers.

Vocational Training and Aftercare Scheme

Project Approved in 2019

This project aims at enhancing the vocational skills of the residents of Wu Oi Christian Tai Mei Tuk Female Training Centre and their sense of self-efficacy as well as their social competency and facilitating their reintegration into society. Project elements include conducting four rounds of vocational training courses, i.e. dessert making cum baking, post-natal care work and nursing care services for participants, as well as having two peer counsellors to conduct aftercare group once a month for rehabilitees.

Building Capacity among Practitioners and Students of Social Work and Healthcare Professions for Anti-Drug Work with Young Adults, Pregnant Women/Mothers, and Sexual Minorities: An Integrated Humanistic and Cognitive-Behavioural Training Program Augmented by an Online Learning Platform

Project Approved in 2019

This project aims at equipping social workers and healthcare professionals with knowledge and skills of an integrated humanistic and cognitive-behavioural therapy for working with specific groups of drug abusers. Project elements include Introductory Workshop on the latest development of the drug scenes in Hong Kong, counselling skills, initial assessment and level of cares for drug abusers, Advanced Course on the overview of an Integrated Humanistic and Cognitive-Behavioural Treatment, screening and assessment, engagement and building motivation to change, negotiating behavioural change, early relapse prevention, relapse prevention and management, treatment for families and social network members, anti-drug work with specific populations including young adults, pregnant women/mothers and sexual minorities, Clinical Supervision Course on principles of using integrated humanistic and cognitive-behavioural treatment, demonstration of counselling skills, monitoring and facilitating trainee’s learning of anti-drug counselling skills etc. and an online learning platform including bilingual web-based audio-visual learning materials, live broadcast sessions of clinical supervision courses.