Welfare Services
Welfare Services
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Service Introduction
BGCA operates 4 districts, in total 5 family life education services units in Tsuen Wan-Kwai Tsing District, Sha Tin District, Kowloon City District, and Wong Tai Sin and Sai Kung District. With a focus on parental education, these services units assist parents in understanding the meaning of parenthood, enhancing their motivation to own their parental responsibilities, learning parenting skills and fostering parent-child relationship. Our services also cover community education that serves both preventive and developmental purposes, through which family functioning and relationship can be strengthened to prevent family crises.
Target Service UsersParents, couples, prospective parents/new parents, prospective married persons and teenagers
Objectives- Promote early childhood development, enhance new parents’ understanding in the necessary changes in their roles for the development and needs of their children
- Support vulnerable and disadvantaged families by strengthening their problem-solving abilities and family functioning
- Educate individuals and family members on family life-related knowledge, attitudes and skills, assist them in fulfilling their roles and responsibilities in the family to foster harmonious relationship and better family life
Features- Early intervention support services
- Promote the importance of early childhood development and early intervention, raise public awareness and attention to the role changes and needs of new parents
- Strengthen the confidence and effectiveness of new parents, and promote pre- and post-natal education support services
- Connect and collaborate with CCDS units at hospitals to handle referrals and provide assistance to disadvantaged new parents and their infants; deepen parents’ knowledge on children’s development and needs, as well as to promote social capital development to establish a strong network of community support
- Developmental services support for school-based and centre-based families
- Promote school-based support services with a focus on “strengthening family functioning”: enhance positive parenting skills and confidence among parents via seminars and workshops to foster good parent-child relationship
- Promote filial education programme at school: provide family education to senior primary school students, help them understand their roles and responsibilities as children and establish positive communication with their parents
- Provide developmental services for centre-based families: enhance parenting effectiveness and positive parenting skills through parental educational activities
- Comprehensive parental education
- The “Parental Education Academy” promotes comprehensive parental education from new perspectives, encouraging parents to actively learn, reflect and enjoy their roles as parents, and be more committed to grow happily with their children.
- Launch a series of programmes for new parents, assisting them to adapt to the changes in their roles, and enhance their abilities to cater for the growth and development of their 0 to 8 years old children, meanwhile fostering secure attachment with the infants.
- Raise public awareness to our family life education services and promote positive family functioning through large-scale promotional campaigns and educational activities.
Event PhotosEnquiries- Tsuen Wan-Kwai Tsing District
- Sha Tin District
- Kowloon City District
- Wong Tai Sin & Sai Kung District (Lung Poon Court Branch)
- Wong Tai Sin & Sai Kung District (Tseung Kwan O Branch)
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- Address: G/F, Fu Ching House, Tai Wo Hau Estate, Kwai Chung, N.T.
- Tel: 2481 6316
- Email: fleo@bgca.org.hk
- Website : https://fleo.bgca.org.hk/
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- Address: 1/F, Kam Tai Shopping Centre, Kam Tai Court, Ma On Shan, Sha Tin, N.T.
- Tel: 2641 8454 / 2481 6316
- Email: fleo@bgca.org.hk
- Website : https://fleo.bgca.org.hk/
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- Address: G/F, Block G, Lok Man Sun Chuen, To Kwa Wan, Kowloon
- Tel: 2711 4650 / 2481 6316
- Email: fleo@bgca.org.hk
- Website : https://fleo.bgca.org.hk/
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- Address: Room 203, 2/F, Lung Poon Court Commercial Centre, Diamond Hill, Kowloon
- Tel: 2320 4005 / 2481 6316
- Email: fleo@bgca.org.hk
- Website : https://fleo.bgca.org.hk/
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- Address: 2/F, East Wing, Po Kan House, Po Lam Estate, Tseung Kwan O, Sai Kung, N.T.
- Tel: 2701 4388 / 2481 6316
- Email: fleo@bgca.org.hk
- Website : https://fleo.bgca.org.hk/
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Service Introduction
The children’s home under the association provides a residential service similar to the family environment for children and young people aged 4-18 who are temporarily unable to live with their families due to different family reasons. The services are provided by professional social workers and clinical psychology. Scientists, counselors and parents of the house are responsible. The team takes care of the daily life of the children, provides education and counseling services, and arranges various social, recreational and mental and physical development activities for the children to help them establish correct values and promote whole-person development. At present, there are 11 children's homes under this association, providing a total of 92 places (including six emergency/short-term places). Last year, it provided services to 101 children in need. For more information, please download our service leaflet.
Target Service UsersChildren and adolescents aged 4-18 (referred to the Integrated Family Service Center or Child Protection and Family Service Division)
Objectives- Provide accommodation and care services for youth who are not able receive appropriate family care, fostering their holistic development and well-being.
- Provide home-like accommodation services to the above-mentioned youth, allowing them to grow in a warm, loving, stable and safe environment.
- Nurture self-care and a sense of responsibility among the youth through a disciplined lifestyle and comprehensive care, and assist them to return to their families as appropriate.
Features- Provide youth with a second home, where services are based on “trauma-informed” and “strength-based” approaches:
- Children and youth admitted to Small Group Homes have often experienced traumatic events. The Homes thus introduce trauma-informed care, creating a safe and trust-worthy environment where the youth’s experiences can be understood, and they are able to establish a sense of control and power. They are subsequently encouraged to reshape their traumatic experiences, re-evaluate their life and take a confident, courageous step into the future.
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Service Introduction
The Service provides dedicated one-stop co-parenting services to support families with separated, divorced or divorcing parents (the parents) and their children. Adhering to a set of child-focused principles, we aim to assist the parents in fulfilling their parental responsibilities and support the children amidst parental separation/divorce or significant family changes, in order to strengthen parent-child relationship and promote the children’s healthy growth and development.
Target Service UsersDivorced parents and/or their children living in Shatin, Tai Po and North Districts who have faced conflicts and disputes on their children's living care and contact arrangements and failed to reach a consensus; including people of different races, cultures, beliefs and languages.
Members of the public who are interested in learning about joint parental responsibility.
Objectives- Assist parents to establish and implement plans for childcare and maintaining parent-child relationship, adherence to a set of child-focused principles, in order to strengthen the parents’ abilities to fulfill their co-parental responsibilities
- Enhance children’s resilience to parental separation/divorce and family changes, and promote their healthy growth and development
- Allow children to maintain contact with the non-resident parents or other important persons in a safe, conflict-free environment
- Promote co-parenting responsibilities
Features- Provide co-parenting counselling, parenting coordination services (to establish and implement plans for childcare and maintaining parent-child relationship) and group workshops for the parents
- Provide contact services to non-resident parents or other important persons and children, including supervised contacts and exchanges
- Provide children with child-focused counselling, support group services and related activities
- Promote co-parenting responsibilities through educational/promotional campaigns
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