Objectives
Training is to promote and enhance the continuous professional growth and development of staff throughout their career.

Programme Components and Target Participants
The overall objective is achieved through organisation of training courses, monitoring e- Learning Centre (eLC), arrangement of student field work placements, provision of Library service and professional support to committees involved in allocation of training funds and grants.

Participants include:

• staff of Social Welfare Department (SWD)
• staff of other Government Departments
• social welfare personnel of non-governmental organizations (NGOs)

Training Courses
The training programmes are listed in the Training and Development (T&D) Prospectus categorically by their levels, i.e. orientation, induction and staff development as well as by their main subject areas. Please refer to the T&D Prospectus 2008-09 (Acrobat Doc) for details of the training programmes.

Orientation Courses

• to introduce the work and organisation structure as well as culture of the Department to new SWD staff
• to prepare local social work students before they start field work placement in the Department

• to equip staff new to certain fields of practice with specific skills and knowledge
• scope includes family & child welfare services, medical social services, correction services, children & youth services and social security services

Staff Development Programmes

• to enhance growth, development and competence of professional and general grades staff and to meet new service requirements
• in the form of short courses delivered in various classroom, e-learning and blended modes, seminars, workshops, overseas training courses & attachment and local part-time courses at tertiary institutes covering a wide range of topics and areas of concern including :

Training Foci on Working with People with Illness or Disabilities

• understanding and managing different mental problems of children and adolescents
• assessing and managing the rehabilitation needs of mentally incapacitated persons and implementing the statutory duties of Mental Health Ordinance
• understanding and implementing the Medical Fee Waiving Mechanism
• strengthening the understanding on infection control and common infectious diseases for staff of Residential Care Home for Persons with Disabilities
• understanding and managing the Standardized Assessment Tool for Residential Services for People with Disabilities
• strengthening the understanding and the promotion of vocational rehabilitation services for persons with disabilities

Training Foci on Working with Offenders

• working with offenders receiving community-based rehabilitation programmes, including probation service and Community Service Orders Scheme etc
• working with young offender in residential settings

Training Foci on Working with Children and Families

• multi-skills training on working with individual and families in crisis or encountering physical, psychosocial and interpersonal problems 
• knowledge and skills in handling domestic violence and child abuse cases and providing counselling to victims, batterers/abusers and their family members 
• knowledge and skills in working with young children

• understanding the physiological, psychological, emotional and social needs of the elderly
• working with the demented elders
• multi-skilled training in working with elders

Training Foci on Working with Youth

• volunteer service management
• working with young people in disadvantaged circumstance
• developmental and preventive educational programmes for young people and their families

Training Foci for Social Security Staff

• Understanding social security services including Comprehensive Social Security Assistance Scheme, Support for Self-reliance Scheme, Social Security Allowance Scheme, Traffic Accident Victims Assistance Scheme, Criminal and Law Enforcement Injuries Compensation Scheme, Emergency Relief Services ...etc.
• Handling applications for different types of social security services
• Operation of the Computerised Social Security System

Generic Skills Training

• knowledge and skills applicable to all or a number of service settings

Management training

 

Language and Communication Training

Information Technology Training

SWD Departmental Library Loan Form (for departmental Library Card)

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