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Agency Visits on 8 September 2017:
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1. Social Welfare Department, HKSAR Government
Tuen Mun Children and Juvenile Home:
The Social Welfare Department provides residential treatment service for mal-adjusted children and juveniles and young offenders through social work intervention to give effect to the directions of the courts. To improve service quality and provide better integrated training to the juveniles and young offenders, the Social Welfare Department has in 2007 co-located six correctional and residential homes to Tuen Mun Children and Juvenile Home (TMCJH), which serves the functions of a place of refuge, a remand home, a place of detention, an approved institution (probation home) and a reformatory school. The Tuen Mun Children and Juvenile Home is a gazetted Home for children and youth from 6 to 18.
2. Po Leung Kuk
Child Residential Services, Causeway Bay:
Formally established as the Society for the Protection of Women and Children in 1880,
Po Leung Kuk currently runs over 260 units throughout Hong Kong, providing welfare,
educational, recreational and cultural services to the community. The Organization
provides a wide range of social services, including integrated family services,
child care services, children and youth services, etc.
3. Hong Kong Children and Youth Services
Jockey Club Tai Po Integrated Children & Youth Services Centre, Tai Po:
The centre is located at Kwong Fuk Estate, Tai Po and it has around 2300 members with 45% children members, 30% youth members and 25% parents members. The centre opens 13 sessions per week. The centre has two bases. The main base has around 600 square meters and the sub-base has around 300 square meters. The centre has been modernized with the support from the Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust & the Lotteries Fund under the “Modernization Programme of Integrated Children & Youth Services Centres” in 2003. The centre adopts a “total person approach” providing guidance and counseling, supportive service for young people in disadvantaged circumstances, socialization programmes and social responsibility and competence enhancement progammes for children and youth. The centre also provides stationing school social work service and services for young night drifters.
4. Hong Kong Family Welfare Society
Financial Education Centre:
Our Society had developed financial education service in 2007 and established the Financial Education Centre
in 2017. The Centre aim at promoting financial literacy and capability of children, youth and parents via
experiential activities and edutainment programme and social media. Besides, the Centre strive to enhance
competence of the social workers with the necessary financial knowledge and skill by adapting Financial
Social Work Certification from U.S.A.
West Kowloon Centre - Shamshuipo (West) Integrated Family Service Centre:
The Integrated Family Service Centre (IFSC) provides a spectrum of services to address the multifarious needs
of individuals and families of specific localities. With the guiding principles of accessibility, early
identification, integration and partnership, the IFSCs are set up to support and strengthen individuals
and families through delivering of services under the direction of 'child-centred, family-focused and community-based.'
5. S.K.H. St. Christopher's Home
Small Group Homes, Tin Shui Wai:
Small Group Homes serve children and young people from 4 to 18 years old who cannot receive adequate family care due to various family problems and crises. A 24-hour family-like residential care is provided for them until they can return home or settle down in another long-term residential home placement. We also provide Emergency/Short-term Small Group Home Service (ESGH) for children with urgent need. Participants can learn more about the settings in and the services provided by them.
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