Annex to LCQ 1
Details of the activities organised in all the districts
District / Name of Activity[1] / Major Collaborating Organisations / Government Fund / Community Sponsorship / Activity Target &No. of Participants /Contents and Objectives
Central
Western / Central & Western District Anti Youth Drug Abuse Community Programme –
Teen’s Power UP / HK Young Women’s Christian Association, Central Western and Islands District Youth Outreaching Social Work Team / $500,000 / Community sponsorship :
$250,000 / Target groups: high-risk young people in the district and local community
Number of participants: about 250 / Through activities such as skills training, body examination, mentoring programmes, visits and voluntary services, enhance young people’s ability to avoid and resist drugs and also provide them with the opportunities to contribute to the community.
Eastern / Soar Higher Project / Chinese YMCA of Hong Kong Chai Wan Centre / $500,000 / - / Target groups: high-risk young people in the district
Number of participants: 150 / To help youths at risk and those who have abused drugs develop positive values and attitudes towards life and to enhance their ability to resist drugs through war-games, performing arts, sports, voluntary services and mentoring programmes.
健康人生齊解毒家長/教師講座暨分享會
(English name not available) / Eastern District Fight Crime Activity Organising Committee / - / District Council fund : $82,000 / Target groups: parents and teachers in the district
Number of participants: 900 / To hold talks for parents and teachers in whichrepresentatives from relevant organisations and government departments will be invited to share their experience in different aspects including the preventionof andfight against drugs, counselling and treatment, in order to empower parents and teachers in the fight against youth drug abuse.
Southern / South Star Power Community Anti-drug Project / Caritas District Youth Outreaching Social Work Team –Southern and Caritas Overnight Outreaching Service for Young Night Drifters / $500,000 / - / Target groups: young people aged 10 to 24 in the district, especially those who have taken psychotropic substances in the past year
Number of participants: 800 / Under athree-pronged strategy ofprevention, identification and intervention, activities will beorganisedfor the community, schools, parents and teachers, with the aim to “increaseyoung people’s ability to resistdrugs and enable early identification of drug abusers”.
Wan Chai / 潮人潮玩新一代
(English name not available) / The Neighbourhood Advice-Action Council –
Eastern/Wan Chai District Youth Outreaching Social Work Team / $500,000 / - / Target groups: young people aged 12 to 24 living or active in the district, especially those who may easily come into contact with drugs or are habitual drug abusers
Number of participants: 100 / There will be various novel, creative recreational activities as well as mentoring programmes with a view to widening the horizon of young people and helping them develop confidence and healthy interests to reduce the possibilities of their contact with drugs and to abuse drugs. There will also be body examination and appropriate referral services for participants to raise their awareness of the harmful effects of drugs so that they are more capable of resisting the temptation of drugs.
青少年抗毒約章
(English name not available) / Baptist Oi Kwan Social Service
and The Neighbourhood Advice-Action Council –
Eastern/Wanchai District Youth Outreaching Social Work Team / - / District Council fund : $400,000 / Target groups: students and young people in the district
Number of participants:
1,000 / Participants have to sign the Charter to pledge not to take drugs and to promote anti-drug messages to their schoolmates, friends and families. The organiser will organise various activities to enhance their awareness to avoid drugs. The Programme will award participants of good performance over the period.
KowloonCity / TEEN友伴我行 / Yang Memorial Methodist Social Service Kowloon City District Youth Outreaching Social Service Centre / $500,000 / Community sponsorship :
$20,000
District Council fund : $260,000 / Target groups: high-risk young people in the district
Number of participants: 120 / Anti-drug talks will be held for schools in the district in order to raise young people’s awareness of the harmful effects of drugs; carry out drug risk identification of students, and to invite some students who are at risk to participate in the Programme and help them develop an interest in healthy activities through multiple intelligences training, life education and mentoring programmes.
Kwun Tong / Kwun Tong District Community Programme against Youth Drug Abuse / Caritas Youth and Community Service Caritas Community Centre-Ngau Tau Kok /
Kwun Tong Sports Promotion Association Limited /
Hong Kong Lutheran Social Service Evergreen Lutheran Centre /
The Boys’ and Girls’ Clubs Association of Hong Kong-Yau Tong Children and Youth Integrated Service Centre / $750,000 / - / Target groups: young people in the district who are at high risk and who are initial drug abusers who use drugs occasionally or at social occasions, young people aged at 6 to 23, and members of the public
Number of participants: about 6,500 /
- Kwun Tong District Anti Drug Talents Ambassador Training Program
- Wing Chun Martial Arts Training class
- Project Sunshine ‧PS
- Youth Anti Drug program
- Anti Drug Bandsound concert
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“Hong Kong Got Talent” Contest cum “Hong Kong Got Talent” Community Musical / Kwun Tong District Council / - / District Council fund:$300,000 / Target groups: those with talents and potential regardless of age, sex, nationality and race
Number of participants: about 1,200 / To select people with different talents in arts performance through competition and to produce a musical based on their stories to promote the messages of resilience in adversity and realisation of potentials.
Anti Drug Musical for schools / Kwun Tong District Council / - / District Council fund:$300,000 / Target groups: primary and secondary schools
Number of participants: about 6,000 / To recruit about 20 students interested in musicals from each participating school of the programme for training and to join the performance when the musical is staged in their schools. Through the interesting and interactive musical, messages on the harmful effects of drugs may be promoted among students and their awareness of the anti-drug cause will be increased.
Sham Shui Po / Anti-drug Angel –Sham Shui Po District Drug Prevention Project for Youth / The Boys’and Girls’Clubs Association of Hong Kong–Sham Shui Po District Youth Outreaching Social Work Team / $500,000 / Community sponsorship :
$50,000
/ Target groups: young people aged below 21 in the district who are at high risk or have taken drugs before
Number of participants: 100 / To help high-risk youths enhance self-confidence, avoid drugs and integrate into the community through training in sports and arts, counselling by professional social workers and mentoring support from district personalities.
Wong Tai Sin / Wong Tai Sin Community Programme against Youth Drug Abuse / Wong Tai Sin Alliance Against Drug Abuse / $500,000
(Home Affairs Department)
$704,510
(Beat Drugs Fund) / Community sponsorship :
$920,560
District Council fund : $40,000 / Target groups: High-risk young people in the district
Number of participants: 450 / The Alliance will be the anti-drug platform of Wong Tai Sin District and will seek to encourage the widest community participation in the anti-drug campaign. Besides coordinating the Clean Line – Community Integrated Scheme on Fighting Youth Abuse of Psychotropic Drugs in Wong Tai Sin (the Clean Line Scheme), the Alliance also encourages its members to organiseother anti-drug activities with the objective of helping young people develop a positive attitude towards life and healthyinterests. There will be a mentoring programme, with community personalities as mentors. They will be role models and their care and support will help young peoplestay away from drugs.
Key programmes of the Wong Tai Sin Community Programme Against Youth Drug Abuse are as follows:
- The Clean Line Scheme
-“Clean Express” youth clinic;
-Set up a hotline for a clean community;
-“Clean Express Ambassadors” training courses;
-“Drug-free Analysis” 4-Panel Comic Drawing Competition, comic workshop and publication of 1 000 copies of comic
- Large-scale district seminars
- Community anti-drug musical
Yau Tsim Mong / Teens’Dreamland / Hong Kong Playground Association / $500,000 / Community sponsorship :
$315,720
District Council fund : $50,000
(to be confirmed) / Target groups: young people in the district who are at high risk or have taken drugs before, students, parents and teachers
Number of participants: about 4,000 / Programmes will include a one-stop service for young people, including outreach services, body examination, counselling, drug treatment, training in art performance, mentoring programmes and job matching, through collaboration between the Government and various sectors of the community. There will also be publicity and participation programmes for the community, schools and families.
Islands / Anti-Youth Drug Abuse Community Programme / The Neighbourhood Advice-Action Council / $500,000 / - / Target groups:
young people in the district aged below 21 who are at risk or who have taken drugs before
Number of participants:
about 300 / Young people at risk or former young drug abusers who are in need of help will be identified through visits or outreach services of social workers. Healthy and appealing activities will be organisedto help them develophealthy interests so that they will stay away from drugs. The Programme consists of four sections to meet the interests and motivation of young people.
Kwai Tsing / Kwai Tsing District Community Programme Against Youth Drug Abuse
葵青區青少年反吸毒社區計劃-「葵」手齊抗毒 / The Hong Kong Federation of Youth Groups / $500,000 / Community sponsorship :
$30,000
District Council fund : $280,000 / Target groups: young people in the district who are at risk or have taken drugs before
Number of participants: 150 / Suitable activities and physical fitness tests will be organised under the Programme so that participants will make good use of their time todevelop positive values and attitudes towards lifeand be better equipped to resist the temptation of drugs.
North / North District Community Programme Against Youth Drug Abuse
北區青少年反吸毒社區計劃–
1.「運動達人」
2.「北區深宵外展服務」
3.「飛躍北動力」 / 1.Cheer Lutheran Centre
2.HK Children & Youth Services Tai Po and North District Overnight Outreaching Social Work Team
3. ELCHK, North District Youth Outreaching Social Work Team / $500,000 / Community sponsorship :
$100,000 / Target groups: young people in the district who are at risk or who have taken drugs before
Number of participants: about 250 / The Programme is implemented mainly through two North District-based youth outreaching social work teams and a counselling centre for young drug abusers. They will reach out to young people in the district who are at risk or are using drugs and seek to establish with them a relationship including mentorship, so as to enhance their motivation for self-enhancement. A series of district activities and interest classes will be organised to help them boost self-confidence, and develop positive values and good social relationship.
Sai Kung / Sai Kung District Community Programme against Youth Drug Abuse / The Hong Kong Federation of Youth Groups / $500,000 / - / Target groups: young people who are at high risk and who have taken drugs before, students and teachers of primary and secondary schools, residents, local community and staff of housing estates
Number of participants: about 10,500 /
- Neighbourhood Youth Anti-Drug Scheme
The Programme will strengthen family support and district network and promote “care and support” in the neighbourhood for young people who are at risk or have used drugs.
- School-based Anti-drug Education
- 'Life Widening' Self-challenge Awarding Scheme
Comprehensive and in-depth group counselling adventureand a two-month individual and group follow-up counselling will be organised as a preventive measure.
-Community Buddy Scheme.
Young people who have received training on counselling regarding drug prevention/treatment/rehabilitation will serve as “community buddies” to provide secondary school students with personal attention and recognition as well as positive support and guidance for their healthy development.
- School-based Assessment on Risks of Youth Drug-taking
Sha Tin / Life Engineering Project / Chinese YMCA of Hong Kong Sha Tin Youth Outreaching Social Work Team / $500,000 / District Council fund : $30,200 / Target groups: young people in the district aged below 21 who have been drug abusers or are acquainted with drug abusers
Number of participants: 200 / Through training courses appealing to young people, rehabilitation and treatment services, counselling by social workers and community promotional activities, the programme aims to help participants develop positive values and attitudes towards life and steer clear of drugs.
Tai Po / Be-Pe Cheerer Project II / Hong Kong Children and Youth Services / $500,000 / - / Target groups: young people in the district under unhealthy influences or with motivation to quit drugs and have taken drugs before
Number of participants: about 400 / Through services targeted at young people, the Project will strengthen their resilience against adversity and help them resist the temptation of unhealthypractices from drug abuse, triad influence, violence, etc.
Tsuen Wan / Tsuen Wan District Three-pronged Anti Youth Drug Abuse Campaign / The Chinese YMCA of Hong Kong, the Hong Kong Federation of Youth Groups, YanChaiHospital and Tsuen Wan AdventistHospital / $500,000 / Community sponsorship :
$350,000
/ Target groups: young people who are at high risk, students and teachers of primary and secondary schools and parents in the district
Number of participants:
about 1,650 / A three-pronged approach of preventive education, community outreach and in-depth counselling services in conjunction with a mentoring programme with a view to promoting among young people in the district knowledge on drug prevention and positive attitudes towards life.
Tuen Mun / 齊創‧新Teen地
(English name not available) / HK YWCA Tuen Mun Integrated Social Service Centre / $580,000 / Community Fund :
$100,000 / Target groups: young people in the district who have taken drugs before or are acquainted with drug abusers or peers with behavioral problems
Number of participants: 150 / To help participants build positive values to enhance their resistance to the temptation of drugs, and to foster mutual assistance.
With cross-sectoral collaboration of the local community, to provide one-stop services including body examination, counselling, skills and arts training, mentorship, life planning, reward programmes, drug treatment referral, etc.
Yuen Long / 健康社區抗毒大行動
(English name not available) / The Friends of Scouting, The EvangelicalLutheranChurch of Hong Kong & Hong Kong Christian Service / $500,000 / Community Fund: $100,000 / Target groups: young people in the district who have taken drugs before and are at risk
Number of participants: 700 / A variety of training in sports and skillsand activities will be made available to the participants according to their interests. They will be arranged to take part in competitions and performances to help them build confidence. Their achievements from the training will be introduced to other young people in the district to help promote anti-drug messages.
[1]Name of activity refers to the name of programme by various districts. Not all activities have an English title.