Our Services Child & Youth Services

Our mission

1. To respond to the needs of young people and help them develop their potentials to handle new challenges arising from family, personal relationship, studies and career development.
2. To support youngsters in marginalized or disadvantaged circumstances with guidance to establish positive attitudes towards life.
3. To strengthen the bonding between youngsters and their families, schools and the community, with a view to enhancing their social awareness and citizenship consciousness.
4. To raise the public awareness on youth affairs, so as to build up a caring community for the well-being and development of youngsters.

Scope of Service

Services provided include professional counselling services, diversified developmental activities, supportive services, school support network, parental network, district organization network, walk-in services, school social work service, outreaching social work service, and overnight outreaching services for young night drifters.

A series of specialized projects are also designated and lauched in cooperation with families, schools and various organizations, integrating with multi-disciplinary professionals and innovation, to provide various intervention services to enable youngsters to achieve whole-person development and rise to challenges during growth. Specialized services include:

• Mental Health Support for youngsters and their parents
• Career Guidance
• Life education
• Liberal Studies and Other Learning Experiences (OLE)
• Adventure-Based Counselling
• Healthy Digital Life
• Family Solidarity
• Critical Incident Stress Management in campus

With a vision of “cultivating healthy spirituality for children”, the H.K.S.K.H. Primary School Counselling Service has been providing the "Comprehensive Student Guidance Programme" since September 2002, which support Sheng Kung Hui schools  to develop counselling service at campus responding to the needs of students, parents as well as teachers.  

The "Comprehensive Student Guidance Programme" comprises the area of:

• Stationing school social work service and professional support 
• Advice to school in policy-making and implementation
• Training programmes to teachers and parents
• Promotion of personal growth education programmes and other supportive services

In addition to the student guidance team, the supervisory team. They are all committed to the rendition of a comprehensive and caring service to the service users in a multi-disciplinary approach. Timely intervention support and follow-up services are also provided when crisis arise at campus. In order to respond to increasingly complex social issues, it is particularly important to strengthen school social work teams' counselling work and schools’ crisis response capability. Therefore, the Primary School Counselling Service focuses on providing case training for school social workers to enhance their counselling skills through importing of knowledge and professional sharing between teams. In addition, the team also provides crisis intervention training for teachers of different schools to help schools grasp the key points of crisis intervention and to cope with crisis.

In response to the substantial needs for counselling services at the schools, the unit is making every effort to seek extra resources to ensure the continuity of services. Collaboration with business sectors in recent years contributed to the launch of “Scholarship of Happy Kids Bright Future” Scheme for students with good conduct and personality and their parents.

Established in 1999, H.K.S.K.H. Youth Employment Integrated Service Centre has been addressing the service direction of "Training" and "Employment" by providing "one-stop" employment counselling service, which includes Holistic Career Assessment, Career Planning, and Comprehensive Employment Support, to facilitate the unemployed to equip themselves for the ever-changing working environment, and to strengthen their motivation of re-entering the working force. 

Scope of Service 

1. "Manpower Development Scheme"
The Centre has been appointed by the Employees Retraining Board to organize the "Manpower Development Scheme" (formerly known as "Employment Retraining Scheme"). Apart from providing an array of full-time Placement-tied and part-time "Skills Upgrading Scheme Plus" courses, an effective employment matching and referral system has been set up for clients and job seekers. Accreditation Approval is issued by the Hong Kong Council for Accreditation of Academic and Vocational Qualifications on April 2015 to operate QF Level 1-3 ERB programmes.

2. Recruitment Support Services

The Centre strives to provide recruitment support to the unemployed and our ERB graduates from Placement-tied courses. Job fairs or recruitment events are organized in response to the need of employment market. Apart from on-site interviews, a pre-employment briefing will be arranged to prepare the ERB retrainees entering to the employment market soon. The Centre also maintain close relationship with enterprises and organizationsm, so that more job vacancy and choices can be offered to service users. 

3. Building up recruitment network 

The Centre organizes “Job Fairs” to facilitate job seekers matching up with employers under our employers’ network. Job Fairs include correspondent job industry and provide applications and interviews with the employers on site. Also, pre-employment workshops are held to encourage job seekers to explore different job industry by industry-focused seminars and briefing sessions from the employer. 

4. Tailor-made and focused employment assistance services 

Our integrated employment support services provide casework support, tailor-made training activities and groups to enhance the employability of able-bodied Comprehensive Social Security Assistance recipients aged 15 to 64 and assist them in seeking suitable jobs. 

To consolidate its work in art education and provide comprehensive art and personal growth education, 9 children and youth service units of the Council have made a concerted effort to establish the Loving Arts Youth Academy on 1st January, 2017, offering teenagers a wide spectrum of art courses. Moreover, the academy provides personal growth and counselling services, exchange activities, social services and a platform of performances and competitions to teenagers, ensuring that they fulfil the mission of “Loving Oneself”, “Loving Others” and “Loving One’s Community”.

Vision

We cherish every teenager and believe they all have unlimited potential. Using art as a means of intervention, the academy aims to unlock teenagers’ potential, beauty and goodness, and help them develop characters guided by the vision of:

1. Loving Oneself:  Helping young people build positive image and confidence, improve perseverance and develop a sense of responsibility
2. Loving Others: Learning to share, respect, collaborate and communicate in a bid to develop a sense of teamwork
3. Loving One’s Community: Spreading messages of joy to the community via volunteer work and public performances

Comprising 6 faculties that offer dance, music, drama, multimedia, handicraft and sports courses, the academy also provides counselling, exchanges, social services, and a venue for large-scale performances and competitions. The academy works with families, schools and the community to encourage the all-rounded development of its youth members.

The Welfare Council is one of the operators under the government’s “Strive and Rise Programme”, we served 400 lower secondary school students living on Hong Kong Island and the Islands District. The project offered  mentorship arrangements, personal development guidance and financial support. Through training, mentors mentee interaction and different group activities, the programme helped young people to develop and achieve their personal goals.