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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Service Introduction
BGCA CARE Link is based on the principle of "child-centered." Working through multi-professional collaboration, we provide diversified services to families in need and are committed to creating a safe and secure growth environment for children and youth. We hold hands with parents/carers to help them overcome their difficulties in the recovery journey, promote a healthy family, and strengthen family functions.
The service receives referrals* from the Family and Child Protective Services Unit (FCPSUs) and the Integrated Family Services Centre (IFSCs)/Integrated Service Centres (ISCs). Service plans are tailored to the individual needs of service users, including home visitation support, therapeutic/psychosocial groups, educational & family enrichment programmes and StandbyU services. The service team will establish partnerships with referral units to provide specialized support services to service users through professional intervention and support.
For more details, Please download the leaflet
*The service team will receive case referrals from referring units by phases and referrals from FCPSUs will be firstly accepted under the first phase.
Target Service UsersFamilies referred by the social workers of FCPSUs or IFSCs/ISCs in the districts of Sham Shui Po, Tsuen Wan, Kwai Chung and Tsing Yi
Objectives- 1. To promote collaboration among different disciplines and sectors, to achieve a strong protection web for the children affected by abuse or suspected harm/maltreatment;
- 2. To build up or enhance the parents/carers’ parenting capacity and help them assume family responsibilities to provide a safe and nurturing environment for stable and healthy development of their children;
- 3. To strengthen support for the abused or vulnerable children as assessed in need of support through building their resilience and strengthening self-protection ability; and
- 4. To prevent or reduce occurrence of child abuse incidents through effective cooperation with related service units.
Scope of Service1. Home visitation support
Through regular home visits, to reach out, observe, assess and provide tailor-made home-based trainings packages/timely intervention, hands-on coaching, live demonstration and practice-based advice to enable the parents/carers to obtain assistance in respect of parenting skills, child discipline and child caring.
2. Structured Group & individual session
To conduct structured therapeutic / psychosocial groups or individual sessions to target service users for their recovery from traumatic or unresolved experiences, in addition to building up their resilience and improving self-protection skills and parental supervision of children.
3. Clinical psychological & nursing support
Through the professional inputs of clinical psychologist and nursing staff under a team work approach to facilitating case consultation / assessment, give advice / recommendations, or provide short-term clinical psychological treatment during the formulation and implementation of service plan, as well as administering groups and individual sessions to attend to the specific needs of the service users.
4. Educational & family enrichment activities
To organise a wide range of educational programmes and family activities to provide opportunities for facilitating parent-child interaction, fostering positive family-child relationships, strengthening or restoring family functioning and re-building support network of relatives or significant others for needy families.
5. StandbyU
To strengthen support to those less motivated families through providing attentive care / support and/or company / escort, etc., to relieve their parenting stress or child casre problems and/or facilitate them to accomplish necessary chores / tasks beneficial to their recovery. Volunteer assistance may also be enlisted for supporting needy cases through various means such as arranging recreational activities, tutorials or peer support, etc.
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