Develop Family Constructive Dispute Resolution (CDR) Centre to Enhance Harmonious Family and Interpersonal Relationships

Mediation Centre rendered professional Mediation Casework Service to help resolve high-conflict disputes among divorced couples, parent-and-children,carers of elderlies in families as well as colleagues. We organised community and youth peace navigator training, training for professional mediators, mediation education and legal consultation programmes to facilitate different people of the society to apply mediation in their daily life and to help the community resolve conflicts. In order to enhance the public awareness and recognition of the concept of mediation, we widely used social and mass media in promotion so as to enhance mutual respect, rebuild trust, as well as to prevent and manage interpersonal conflicts despite diversities.

Encourage Divorced Parents to Act as Co-parents to Cooperate to Take Care of and Support Children’s Needs under the Pandemic

Class suspension under the pandemic created great stress in childcare for residing parents and influenced the connection between children and their non-residing parents. Through various online platforms and groups provided by the Parent-child Connect Specialised Co-parenting Support Centre,
divorced parents were encouraged to be child-focused and cooperate as “coparents” to support the needs of their children. The Society was also invited by a Taiwan NGO to provide training on co-parenting work in an Asian online webinar to facilitate professional knowledge exchange across sectors in Asian countries. The Pilot Project on Children Contact Service was granted the Outstanding Award of the Wofoo 3A Project 2020 by the Consortium of Institutes on Family in the Asian Region.

Send Blessings to Divorce Families with Co-parenting Dinosaur as a “Cheerleader”

A set of “Co-parenting Dinosaur Family” has been designed by the Family Resource Centre (FRC). Four lovely characters created including the divorced parents and their two children, who have helped deliver care and hope to divorced parents through sharing of positive post-divorcing life and tips for co-parenting their children in two happy homes. Facebook live programmes conducted by FRC also promoted positive co-parenting through life stories of the Dinosaur Family.

Provide Trauma Intervention Services to Facilitate Parents and Children from Divorce and Step / Blended Families to Rebuild Post-divorce Life

Funded by The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust, we have launched the Jockey Club “Let Go and Let’s Go” Support Project for Divorce and Blended Families. The project aimed at facilitating divorce and step /blended families through series of ‘trauma intervention” and “relationship rebuild” work, in a view to cope with emotions and wounds resulting from critical family relationship changes or adverse experiences. It was also hoped to facilitate parents to rebuild and consolidate their family relationship during the family reconstruction process from “child-focused perspective”. We organised related professional trainings to professionals working with divorce families for knowledge sharing and exchange.