CHILD AND YOUTH
Service Briefing
CUHK Social Work Placement
Rex WS Cheung
12.12.2020
What do you feel
about child and
youth service?
Youth is a time of joy, as we step forward into adulthood
…time of bewilderment … starts facing the complexities and
challenges of adulthood
…our political, economic and social environment is
changing so rapidly
…constantly bombarded with pressures from various sides, such
as family problems, difficulties with school work,
peer group influences and temptations from the
outside world
Support for young people is therefore much needed
for their healthy development
How would you define
youth and child?
Who are we going to serve?
Origins of C & Y service in HK
History
1967-riot
1975-Dr
Agnes NG
1979-White
Paper
1994Evaluation
1999-Youth
Employment
2002-new
services
2009-drug
initiatives
C & Y services
Related Policies
Related Entities
◦ Population and structure
◦ SWD
◦ Employment Rate and
development
◦ HAB
◦ Education Policy
◦ Discipline Units
◦ Crime rate and trend
◦ Labour Department, ERB
◦ Other major mottos from
govt.
◦ Private Sector (including HKJC)
◦ EDB
Policies and Administration - SWD
FSA
SQS
◦ Service Objectives
◦ 16 items
◦ Nature and recipients
◦ Expectation on management and service
provision
◦ Essential Service Requirements
◦ Output standards
◦ http://www.swd.gov.hk/en/index/site_ngo/pa
ge_serviceper/sub_listoffsas/
1. to clearly define the purposes and
objectives of the service and make its mode
of delivery transparent to the public
2. to manage resources effectively with
flexibility, innovation and continuous quality
improvement
3. to identify and respond to specific service
users needs
4. to respect the rights of service users
ICYSC
Integrated Children &
Youth Service Centre
• 139 ICYSCs over HK
• Service Provision
•
Drop in service
•
Group Programme
•
Projects
•
“Buy service” to
school and others
ICYSC
Core Programme
•
Aged 6-24 and their family
•
guidance and counselling
•
supportive service for young people
in disadvantaged circumstances
•
socialisation programmes
•
development of social responsibility
and competence
-------------• Specific target groups (e.g. SEN,
Deprived family, EM, NEET…)
• Strategic Alliance
• Enhancing mental health/stress
resilience
Non-Core Programme
•
Drop-in service, ASCP, study
room, summer programme…
SSW
School Social Work
Service
Casework, Group and
emergency support service
• Secondary School
•
•
•
Two SSW per school (NGOs)
Project SW with stationing
SW funded by school
• Primary School
•
•
One SSW per school (NGOs)
School Guidance Personnel
(until 2021/22)
• Kindergarten
•
Pilot Scheme on Social
Work Service for Preprimary Institutions
Employment
Youth Employment Training
Programme (YETP) 展翅青見
•
For young people aged 15
to 24 with
•
With sub-degree or below
level
•
enhance their potential by
joining the program
•
pre-employment training
and workplace attachment
opportunities
•
opportunities of
employment, on-the-job
support services and
allowances for off-the-job
vocational training courses
Service for
youth at risk
Community Support Service
Scheme (CSSS)
•
Users under Police
Superintendent’s Discretion
Scheme (PSDS)
•
Therapeutic counselling / Group,
family intervention and support
Counselling Centre for
Psychotropic Substance
Abusers (CCPSA)
•
Preventive and remedial
intervention services for
substance abusers
OUTREACH
District YOT
•
19 Teams of District YOT
•
Provides outreaching
counselling and guidance
services for aged 6-24
YND
•
Overnight Outreaching
Service for Young Night
Drifters
•
Equipped with additional
manpower, vehicles and
mobile phones
•
18 Teams of District YOT
•
Provides 10pm-6am
outreaching services
Web-based
services
5 Cyberyouth Support
Teams
• To address the at-risk and
hidden youths aged 6 to
24 who may not prefer
conventional
mainstream services
• provide professional
social work intervention
with online and
offline counselling
• group/programme servic
es to at-risk and hidden
youths
Projects
Life Planning 生涯規劃
CLAP for youth 鼓掌創你程
PATHS 共創成長路
UAP 成長的天空
EDB Funding
HAB Funding
SYP Funding
Beat Drugs Fund
Child Development Fund
Inclusive Education (SEN, EM)
Mental Health
Integrated Community Centre for
Mental Wellness (ICCMW)
• Therapeutic and supportive group
• Networking services, including social and
recreational activities
• Day training
• Outreaching occupational therapy training
services
• Public education programs on mental
health
• Referral to the Community Psychiatric
Service of the Hospital Authority for clinical
assessment or psychiatric treatment
Early Assessment Service for Young
People with Psychosis (EASY)
Residential Care
Non-institutional Care
•
Foster care - for children under 18
years of age
•
Emergency foster care - for
children under 18 years of age
•
Small group homes - for children
from 4 to under 18 years of age
•
Emergency/ Short-term Care in
Small group Home - for children
from 4 to under 18 years of age
Residential Care
Institutional Care
•
Residential creches - for babies under 3
years of age
•
Residential nurseries - for children aged
from 3 to under 6
•
Children's reception centres - for
children aged under 18 years of age
•
Children's homes - for children or young
persons between 6 and under 21 years
of age
•
Boys' / girls' homes - for children or
young persons between 7 and under
21 years of age with behavioral or
emotional problems. Schools for Social
Development are run within some of
these homes
•
Boys' / girls' hostels -- for young persons
between 14 and under 21 years of age
who are studying or working
Child Abuse
“…child abuse is defined as any act of commission or
omission that endangers or impairs the physical /
psychological health and development of an individual
under the age of 18…”
Procedural Guide for Handling Child Abuse Cases
(Revised 2007)
Contact supervisors immediately!
Challenges of C & Y services?
Do youth nowadays still going to youth centre?
Any difficulties for NGOs to catch up with the trend?
Do social workers ready to provide web-based services?
Youth services overly
attached to schools?
How youth think about
social workers?
Challenges during
pandemic?
What’s wrong with
funding driven service?
THEORETICAL
FRAMEWORK
Rule of Thumb
How’s your work different from non-trained personnel?
Ecological Systems Approach
• To take an ecological systems approach
that acknowledges the variety of systems
that an individual interacts with on a daily
basis
• A biopsychosocial view that recognizes the
internal factors that come to bear on a
client’s functioning
• To assess a person as an active and passive
agent within a system
Learning by doing
According to Kolb’s ELT, learning is a process of
transforming experiences into knowledge.
Kolb suggested learning consists of four elements, including :
• concrete experience (CE),
• reflective observations (RO),
• abstract conceptualization (AC)
• and active experimentation (AE)
Experiential learning theory
Social learning theory
Learning by observation/imitation
According to Albert Bandura’s, rather than simply hearing a
new concept and applying it, the learning process is made
more efficient if the new behavior is modeled as well.
Engagement
Assessment
Planning
Intervention
Evaluation
The generalist practice model
Termination
assess
safety
and
lethality
rapport
building
identify
problems
address
feelings
generate
alternatives
The Crisis Intervention Model
develop
an
action
plan
follow up
Other
gadgets
Narrative approach
Art facilitation
Adventure-based
Positive Psycho.
Self-understanding
…and a lot more
Expectation on Students
Knowledge
Skills
Attitude
Interpersonal skill in work place
Practical competence
Question asking is an integral part of placement, I think