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Service Introduction
BGCA operates 4 districts, in total 5 family life education services units in Tsuen Wan-Kwai Tsing District, Sha Tin District, Kowloon City District, and Wong Tai Sin and Sai Kung District. With a focus on parental education, these services units assist parents in understanding the meaning of parenthood, enhancing their motivation to own their parental responsibilities, learning parenting skills and fostering parent-child relationship. Our services also cover community education that serves both preventive and developmental purposes, through which family functioning and relationship can be strengthened to prevent family crises.
Target Service UsersParents, couples, prospective parents/new parents, prospective married persons and teenagers
Objectives- Promote early childhood development, enhance new parents’ understanding in the necessary changes in their roles for the development and needs of their children
- Support vulnerable and disadvantaged families by strengthening their problem-solving abilities and family functioning
- Educate individuals and family members on family life-related knowledge, attitudes and skills, assist them in fulfilling their roles and responsibilities in the family to foster harmonious relationship and better family life
Features- Early intervention support services
- Promote the importance of early childhood development and early intervention, raise public awareness and attention to the role changes and needs of new parents
- Strengthen the confidence and effectiveness of new parents, and promote pre- and post-natal education support services
- Connect and collaborate with CCDS units at hospitals to handle referrals and provide assistance to disadvantaged new parents and their infants; deepen parents’ knowledge on children’s development and needs, as well as to promote social capital development to establish a strong network of community support
- Developmental services support for school-based and centre-based families
- Promote school-based support services with a focus on “strengthening family functioning”: enhance positive parenting skills and confidence among parents via seminars and workshops to foster good parent-child relationship
- Promote filial education programme at school: provide family education to senior primary school students, help them understand their roles and responsibilities as children and establish positive communication with their parents
- Provide developmental services for centre-based families: enhance parenting effectiveness and positive parenting skills through parental educational activities
- Comprehensive parental education
- The “Parental Education Academy” promotes comprehensive parental education from new perspectives, encouraging parents to actively learn, reflect and enjoy their roles as parents, and be more committed to grow happily with their children.
- Launch a series of programmes for new parents, assisting them to adapt to the changes in their roles, and enhance their abilities to cater for the growth and development of their 0 to 8 years old children, meanwhile fostering secure attachment with the infants.
- Raise public awareness to our family life education services and promote positive family functioning through large-scale promotional campaigns and educational activities.
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