Walk with Youth in Adversity and Support Them to Adapt to Changes

A flea market named “Failure Celebration” was launched by life goal planning service, providing a hands-on experience for the youth to run their business. We also invited them and other stall owners to share their views on “success” and “failure”, wishing to in turn inspire the public. During the special holiday, Youth Square designed a series of “Online Summer Activities in Spring” to support students and parents in coping with the unexpected school arrangement. Another project “Family Feast” was launched to engage the restaurants in the community by donating meal coupons to deprived families
under the pandemic, so as to raise public awareness on family wellbeing.

Be at Ease with Challenges and Promote Adolescent Mental Wellbeing

Positive M.I.N.D. Project – “Being at Ease” was launched for promoting mental wellbeing of adolescents through four essential components, including selfcare, gratitude, emotional awareness, and competence enhancement. A series of topical talks was held, namely, the "Self-care Formula", "Live with Feelings", "Co-exist with Anxiousness" and "Life Management Talk". Interactive Wellness Day was also tailor-made for advocating the psychological and mental wellness of adolescents, allowing them to acquire mental health knowledge and face different situations with positive conditions during and after the pandemic. We have also launched a SoulCollage® Project at 20 secondary schools for teachers, parents and students to explore their inner wisdom and strengths during the process of card-making and carry forward to cope with other obstacles in life.

A Way Out for Conflict under the Pandemic, with New Attempt of Online Mediation Education

The pandemic has unexpectedly disrupted students’ learning, social relationships and family relationship. In view of this, we have collaborated with 345 trained peer mediators and passionate partners, such as the Education Bureau, professional mediation organisations and Bank of China (Hong Kong) Limited, to promote the importance of emotional awareness, conflict management and empathy among parents and youth. “Parent Mediation Network”, an online self-learning platform, was also launched to enable the general public to learn mediation concepts and skills to solve family conflicts, especially during the pandemic.

Handle Net Related Problems of Youth and Families with Evidence-based Intervention and Impact Assessment

With the continuous support from the Education Bureau on internet addiction prevention, we have handled over 5,500 hotline calls and provided nearly 16,000 online consultation sessions, serving 227 cases. Our impact assessment has shown that the average score of net addiction cases dropped from 6.4 (at case opening) to 4.1 (at case closing), while distress on family conflicts dropped from 6.0 to 2.8, out of a full scale of 7 points. 67% of the cases were closed within one year and the overall satisfaction rate was 6.4. We have also organised 117 onsite programmes for nearly 100 partners with over 13,000 participants in total, including 18 Smart Netizen Groups in schools to handle students' internet gaming disorder with evidence-based intervention.

Strengthen the Self-efficacy of Students with Special Educational Needs (SEN) and Maintain Their Social Connection under the Pandemic

To strengthen the self-efficacy of students with SEN, various vivid intervention approaches and art means have been adopted, including LEGO®SERIOUS PLAY®, to enhance SEN students’ social, executive and emotional competency. Zentangle, pour painting and expressive arts have also been applied to enhance their attention span and confidence. To sustain SEN students’ social connection under class suspension, online programmes and volunteer groups were conducted to provide a platform for them to interact with others as well as to express their care to single elderly in the community with Chinese New Year DIY gifts.

Enhance Family Resilience and Parents’ Ability and Confidence to Cope with Various Challenges with Their Adolescent Children

The “Deliver-Love”- Youth • Parents “Family Life Education Programme” aimed at raising parents’ adaptability to changes via three aspects, i.e. adolescentfamily education, family cohesion and parents enrichment. Sponsored by The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust and co-created with the effort from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and three other NGOs, the 3-year Jockey Club “Promoting Family Resilience” Project has been kick-started in March 2021, with a view to enhance family resilience and parents’ ability and confidence to cope with challenges with adolescent children through “familycentric" perspective education and support services.