Background

• Family problems in Hong Kong are becoming more serious and complicated. Numbers of domestic violence, child neglect, double-income parents, long working hours, poverty, single-parent family, cross-boundary students, newly-arrived children, and ethnic minority families are rising.

• Teachers and principals of kindergartens often need to help counselling children. Due to their heavy work pressure, insufficient support for counselling service, and parents’ reluctance to take the initiative to directly seek external help, children may not receive timely support when they have emotional distress.

• Since November 2004, the C&MA had self-funded the “Family Support Counselling Services”, and starting from 2007, the association has received part of the service’s funds from the Community Chest of Hong Kong.

• Family counsellors play a neutral role and collaborate with principals and teachers to divide the work professionally under a double-track system to provide services for families in need.

 
Service Goals

• Identify early and assist children with learning, family, social, behavioral, and emotional difficulties, and provide counselling or referral services.

• Early identification of and early intervention in families in-crisis. Support parents and counsel them on issues like emotional management and parenting, so children can grow up healthily under a stable family environment.

• Implement parent education activities. Promote home-school cooperation and understanding through parent talks, workshops, and interviews to promote parent-child communication and parenting skills. Strengthen home-school collaboration and communication through parent activities.

• Provide teacher training to enhance teachers’ understanding of counseling work and skills, as well as promote collaboration among different parties to support children in need, thus helping children to solve their problems.

2023-2024  Activities (only for our school’s students and their parents)