Stakeholders' Engagements
HKFWS is committed to promoting family wellbeing. The Society has conducted research study to establish a credible Hong Kong Family Wellbeing Index (HKFWI) in 2019. To make family wellbeing take root in the society, stakeholders’ continuous engagement is essential. The Society has targeted at the general public, schools and corporates as the key stakeholders and to heighten their awareness towards family wellbeing. They were invited to complete the HKFWI online questionnaire to scrutinise their family wellbeing.
Under the impact of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), “work from home” and “study from home” have become the “new normal” and carers’ family wellbeing has often been neglected. The Society has conducted two HKFWI side studies: “Work-life balance of families under the new normal” and “Understanding Carers' Family Wellbeing” in February and March, 2021 and August and September, 2021 respectively to understand the situation. Press conferences were organised to release the findings, in which our social workers shared their professional advice on promoting family wellbeing. There were extensive media coverages on these studies. The Society has also publicised the study results and recommendations through our website, social media platforms and electronic newsletters in order to reach out to member so the public.
To convey the advocative messages of the carers’ study, the Society hosted the 3-day “Soup House Raku” event at the Annex at The Mills in Tsuen Wan on 19th-21st November, 2022. The programme featured an array of mock-up Japanese hot spring bathrooms for families to spend quality time together and to raise awareness towards carers’ family wellbeing.
The Society has produced a school promotional kit which consisted of posters and leaflets for school social workers to introduce the HKFWI to the school principals and encourage their teachers, students and parents to complete the HKFWI online questionnaires to assess their family wellbeing and acquire professional advice on enhancing family wellbeing.
Employees are corporates’ key assets and their family wellbeing and work performance are mutually affected. The Society has tailor made HKFWI online questionnaires for corporates to enable their human resources personnel or management staff to understand their employees’ family wellbeing status so as to introduce more employee-friendly initiatives to promote their family wellbeing.
