Tai Po District Youth Outreaching Social Work Team
Ma On Shan Youth Outreaching Social Work Team
Objectives:
To cater for the developmental needs of youth and to assist them in coping with the pressures from family, school, career, interpersonal relationships and the social environment.
To develop youth’s potential, enhance their understanding of themselves and widen their social circle, thereby improving their resilience.
To strengthen youth’s ability to cope with the influences of the social environment.
Target Group of Services:
Target service users are young people / young night drifters aged 6 to 24, who do not normally participate in conventional social or youth activities and are vulnerable or exposed to undesirable influence and / or manifesting behavioural problems.
Service Content:
Identifying and targeting potential clients;
Establishing direct contacts with targets, either individually or in group;
Providing counselling, either on an individual or group basis, to assist clients to overcome their difficulties or problem;
Organising group activities or programs for guidance, skill training, education, drugs awareness, community service, recreation, rapport building or other specified purposes in order to achieve case plans; and
Referring clients to other appropriate services such as counselling centres for Psychotropic Substance Abusers in order to meet their needs.
Contact Details:
Objectives:
Tai Po District Youth Outreaching Social Work Team