Happy Go Buddies
Introduction
“Happy Go Buddies” Programme started to provide diversified services and training for needy children in 2011 in enhancing their mental wellness and emotional regulation capacity. It is operated by a team of expertise, including social workers, clinical psychologists, counsellors and arts therapists. We also organise various educational activities for parents, professionals and the public to facilitate the community to help children face challenges with positive attitudes.
Objectives
“Happy Go Buddies” aims to gauge the general situation of children's emotion health in Hong Kong, to identify risk and protective factors so as to inform intervention approach, and provides prevention and early intervention service to help children face challenges in developing positive attitude and socio-emotional capacity.
Target
Primary school students in Kwai Tsing, Wan Chai and Eastern districts
Service Content
1. Research and analysis
To conduct questionnaire survey for upper primary students and their parents and measure the general phenomena of children’s emotion condition; to study its relationship with related factors and thus formulating appropriate intervention and prevention solutions, and support individual schools in terms of students’ mental health and developmental needs according to survey data.
2. “Happy Go Buddies” Healthy Emotion Groups
Use evidence-based therapeutic approaches combined with story-telling and artistic elements, to help students learn to regulate their emotions and establish healthy habits through interesting small-group activities and thereby enhance their psychological flexibility and motivation to achieve goals.
3. Art Experiential Groups/ Workshops
To allow students express their own ideas, attitudes, desires and feelings in a judgement-free platform through a wide range of artistic elements including painting, visual arts, stories or drama as communication medium and thus gain insight and experience acceptance. Interactive process can help students soothe emotions and explore how to handle stress or interpersonal relationships.
4. Parent Talks
To allow parents understand emotions and how to communicate with children on emotion topic and help children alleviate emotional distress, so that emotion will not hinder their development but become their motivation.
5. Student Talks
To present emotional health in a way that suits the mental development of upper primary students, so that students will get familiar with and accept their own emotions and therefore express and deal with emotions appropriately.
6. Case Support
To provide case follow-up services, early assessment and intervention for students in need.
Schools may, as needed, discuss with our social workers for the most appropriate services.
Charges
Charges vary depending on activities. Please contact our staff for more details.
Enquiry
Address: 7/F, 36 Oi Kwan Road, Wan Chai, Hong Kong
Tel: 3413 1542
Fax: 3413 1676
Email：aeis@bokss.org.hk
Facebook: www.facebook.com/happygobuddieswww.facebook.com/happygobuddies
HKTeens Project
Introduction
In response to the increasing challenges that our youth are facing, HKTeens project was initiated by 2011 to provide mental wellness support for secondary schools’ students, parents and teachers, including counselling, groups, workshops, talks delivered to schools.
Objectives
-improve the mental wellness, positivity of youth
-identify youth facing mental health issues and emotional disturbances, so as to provide early intervention
-support them develop healthy coping and psychosocial development
Service Targets
-secondary school students
-their parents
-secondary school teachers
Served Areas
´ All districts
Service Delivery Model
Service Content
-Prevention work includes students and parents talks on mental health related topics, so as to help them have early awareness and concern for their emotional or mental conditions
-Developmental work includes workshops or activities facilitated by art adventure, psychosocial treatment such as Time Perspective approach, so as to help students understand their emotions, attitude and thought patterns, to learn to relieve their stress and discover their strengths.
-Intervention work includes individual and group counseling on interpersonal relationship, emotions and coping, so as to improve mental wellness in school life.
Charges
Charges vary depending on activities. Please contact our staff for more details.
Enquiries
Address: Room 703, 7/F, 83 Tai Lin Pai Road, Kwai Chung, NT
Tel: 3703 6206
WhatsApp: 6623 5389
Fax: 2386 1800
