Support
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.
2019-2020 Activities (only for our school’s students and their parents)
Children Activity | 2019-2020 | Children Development Group |
Children Activity | 2019-2020 | Children Case Counselling Service |
Parent Activity | 2019-2020 | Parent Case Counselling Service |
Parent Activity | October 2019 | “Between the Generations” Subject Talk |
Parent Activity | October 2019 | “Pass Along the Sadness” Parenting Group |
Parent-child Activity | November – December 2019 | N1-K1 “Willing to ‘Express’” Parent-child Group |
Parent Activity | January 2020 | “Understand You through Stories” Parents’ Talk |
Parent-child Activity | February 2020 | N1-K1 “Parent-child Sensory Integration Experience” Parent-child Game Group |
2020-2021 Activities (only for our school’s students and their parents)
Children Activity | 2020-2021 | Children Development Group |
Children Activity | 2020-2021 | Children Case Counselling Service |
Parent Activity | 2020-2021 | Parent Case Counselling Service |
Parent Activity | September 2020 | N1 “I go to School with my Baby…” Parents’ Subject Talk |
Parent Activity | October 2020 | Parent Guidance Group |
Parent-child Activity | February – March 2021 | K3 “Little Frogs Love Being Mindful” Parent-child Mindfulness Group (online) |
Parent Activity | April 2021 | “Parent-child Relationship under the Epidemic” Parents’ Subject Talk (online) |
Parent Activity | May 2021 | “Picture Books Inspire Parenting” Parents’ Subject Talk (online) |
Parent Activity | June 2021 | “The Magic of Parenting” Parent Group (online) |
Parent Activity | June 2021 | K3 “Hand in hand to P1” Parent Gathering (online) |