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Gato House

Project Approved in 2016

This project aims at improving the mental health and life skill of the drug abusers and rehabilitees through animal assisted activities. Project activities include animal assisted therapy drug counselling (e.g. individual based and group counselling, life and death education), animal assisted vocational training cum work placement and outreaching services.

Certified Addiction Counsellor Training

Project Approved in 2016

This project aims at enhancing anti-drug professionals’ competency in delivery of addiction prevention, assessment and intervention through professional training and supervision. The project includes a six-day certified training course and a six-session group supervision for those who have successfully completed the certified training course.

No Drugs Home with Love

Project Approved in 2016

This project aims at strengthening the support to drug abusers and rehabilitees of ethnic minorities, their family members and children. It also aims at enhancing the anti-drug knowledge of ethnic minorities community members and drug abusers’ motivation to seek help and quit drugs. The project provides community-based services to ethnic minorities community including outreach and individual counselling, mutual help group and peer educator training, family counselling, children play groups and community education talk.

Towards Brilliant Life

Project Approved in 2016

This project aims at providing various rehabilitation and treatment program and counselling to female rehabilitated drug abusers, their parents and graduates from sister hostel. Project elements include music and art course, post-natal care helper course, individual and group counselling, volunteer services, aftercare services and support parents work.

SOS: Psychotropic Substance Abusers Family Emergency Supporting Scheme

Project Approved in 2016

This project provides support and treatment to the family of the psychotropic substance abusers and fosters the hidden abusers to seek help and treatment. The project also aims at strengthening intervention knowledge and skills for social workers. Project elements include home visits for crisis intervention, motivation enhancement, therapeutic groups, counselling, training workshops for social workers, and anti-drug preventive education programmes.

啟航新生命

Project Approved in 2016

This project provides training to peer counsellors on team-building and coaching skills, as well as to drug rehabilitees on vocational skills, positive thinking and resistance to adversity.

Provision of a 16 seater Private Light Bus to Shek Kwu Chau Treatment and Rehabilitation Centre

Project Approved in 2016

This project is for the purchase of a 16-seater private light bus for Shek Kwu Chau Treatment and Rehabilitation Centre, to provide adequate transportation support to the resident psychotropic substance abusers and staff members.

研內助 - 研究經驗分享平台

Project Approved in 2016

This project aims at strengthening frontline workers’ evidence based drug abuse prevention practices and creating a platform to consolidate workers’ frontline experiences on treatment and rehabilitation. Project activities include seminars, peer educators sharing sessions, and field studies for tertiary school students and personnel in the drug abuse prevention and related fields.

Ice Induced Psychosis: a Literature Review and a Prevalence Study in Local Ice Abusers

Project Approved in 2016

This is a research study investigating the prevalence of psychiatric comorbidity in a group of Methamphetamine (“Ice”) users in Hong Kong. The objectives are to determine the prevalence of Ice induced psychosis (IIP) and psychotic symptoms in local users, to examine the prevalence of mood and anxiety disorders in Ice users, and to conduct a literature review on IIP to analyse the risk factors, frequency, symptoms, pathomechanism and treatment of IIP.

Situations and associated factors of psychoactive substance use among men who have sex with men in Hong Kong

Project Approved in 2016

An anonymous cross-sectional survey will be launched to investigate the profiles of local men who have sex with men engaging in and/or intending to engage in psychoactive substance use, and the multi-dimensional associated factors (e.g. influence of social media and peers, cognitive variables and psychosocial variables) with psychoactive substance behaviours and/or intention.