Annual District Highlights

District Highlights 2023-24

Strengthening Support Networks, Promoting Positive Thinking, and Identifying Individuals and Families in Need Early

To support the territory-wide publicity initiative known as the “Care the Carers Campaign”, the District Social Welfare Office (DSWO), in collaboration with various stakeholders, organised the “Love Yourself, Love Your Family, Love Together” carer fun day in both the Sai Kung and Wong Tai Sin districts. A total of 3 300 people, including over 600 carers, benefited from these events. The DSWO also used Facebook and YouTube to promote carer support services and activities.
Carer support and mental health programmes were implemented in collaboration with rehabilitation service units in the district, benefiting 2 000 persons with disabilities and their carers. In addition, the DSWO teamed up with relevant service units to launch the “Joyful Kiddo” support programme, providing activities for 200 children with special needs and their families. Working with more than 30 district stakeholders, the DSWO promoted positive psychology and happy living through the “Happy Life Community Health Promotion Project”, which included activities such as “Happy Kids”, “Happy Ambassadors”, sharing sessions, workshops, life education, the Sai Kung district secondary students happiness index survey, and online educational/promotional activities, serving over 14 000 people in total.
Together with the “Wong Tai Sin Youth Service District Network”, comprising 10 youth service units in the district, art experiential activities and focus groups utilising the “WeCLAP” career development framework and expressive art methods were organised to promote positive growth among young people. The DSWO also collaborated with the “Sai Kung District Youth Service Collaboration Committee”, comprising 11 youth service units in the district, to host the “Community YouthMaker 5.0: Let’s Move! Youth Festival.” The event featured 11 youth teams producing YouTube videos to promote messages about mental well-being, and positive community living, etc. Moreover, 13 youth and family service units participated in the “Happy Family” sports activity funding programme 2.0, enabling 638 parents and children to experience family harmony through sports activities.

Strengthening Cross-sector Cooperation, and Promoting Collaboration and Volunteerism

A joint project was co-organised with Our Lady of Maryknoll Hospital, Sik Sik Yuen, and 38 elderly and family service units to conduct primary health education talks for 320 participants, provide mental health workshops and group activities for over 500 elderly persons and carers, and train health ambassadors to make home visits and conduct caring phone calls, benefiting over 2 000 frail and low-incentive elderly persons and carers. To address youth suicide issues in schools, the DSWO co-organised the “Care and Resilience - Actionability in Crisis” brainstorming session, featuring presentations by psychiatrists, psychologists and the Police Negotiation Cadre, who engaged with 88 principals and teachers from 22 secondary schools in the district. In addition, under the “Referral Mechanism of Health and Emotion Support Service for Children and Adolescents in Wong Tai Sin and Sai Kung Districts”, social workers in the district have so far identified and referred 448 children and adolescents in need of treatment at an early stage. A child protection online seminar, a psychological first-aid training programme and a sharing session on handling severe mental illness cases were also organised, with attendance from 256, 63 and 126 frontline staff, respectively.
Elderly centres in the district were funded to implement six small community collaboration projects for the benefit of 1 200 elderly persons and 2 000 carers through various activities. In partnership with the Tseung Kwan O (South) Collaboration Network and Tsui Lam Service Collaboration Alliance, the DSWO co-organised the “Good Persons and Good Deeds” aphorism and illustration competition, as well as the “Happy Together in Tsui Lam” programme to increase residents’ awareness of community services and foster a spirit of mutual assistance among neighbours. Moreover, the DSWO hosted volunteer programmes in collaboration with various organisations, benefiting 200 elderly persons, persons with disabilities, children with special needs, carers, and volunteers; and held the 2023-24 Outstanding Volunteers Recognition Ceremony to commend the contributions of volunteers and organisations and encourage volunteerism within the community