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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.

Sustainable Employment Team (SET)

Project Approved in 2016

This project aims at enhancing young drug abusers and rehabilitees’ self-efficacy to avoid drug use and strengthening their employment sustainability.　Outreach vocational rehabilitation services will be provided by occupational therapists, including work assessment, vocational goal setting, job-matching, skill building, job acquisition, job coaching and social and leisure activities, and support in sustaining employment, to young substance abusers in residential Drug Treatment and Rehabilitation Centres, Counselling Centres for Psychotropic Substance Abusers and Centres for Drug Counselling.

3 Steps to Relapse Prevention

Project Approved in 2016

This project aims at enhancing the rehabilitation and life functioning of drug abusers through a three-phase continuum intervention provided by occupational therapists in six months, including insight enhancement, relapse prevention, and after care services. The project interventions include assessment, counselling, occupational lifestyle redesign plan, coaching on balanced life, outreaching service and telephone support, etc.

Multi-disciplinary treatment programme for Methamphetamine and Ketamine abusers with urinary tract symptoms

Project Approved in 2016

This project aims at addressing varying medical needs among the ketamine and methamphetamine abusers and providing up-to-date training to frontline staff. The project will provide fast-track multi-disciplinary medical care to ketamine and methamphetamine abusers who present with urinary tract problems and offers treatment modalities which are not provided by Hospital Authority. Other services include providing training to frontline anti-drug professionals, delivering reinforcement education to Drug Addiction Treatment Centre rehabilitees and medical knowledge to healthcare providers.

FLY WITH LOVE AND DREAM - Community Rehabilitation Project

Project Approved in 2016

This project aims at helping young drug rehabilitees to reconstruct life styles and values, strengthen self-efficacies, reduce relapse rate and reintegrate into society. Career development workshop and life reconstruction counselling group will be conducted. Vocational skill training and practicum workshop, vocational counselling and advanced vocational training will also be organised to enhance their ability and reduce relapse rate.