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Community Rehabilitation Day Centre Services attached in the existing 5 Training and Activity Centres for Ex-MI have commenced services since 1 October 2006.  Community Rehabilitation Day Centre Services are a new community support providing outreaching occupational therapy training services to the ex-mentally ill persons living in the community in order to help them better integrate into the community.

Please click here for information of the services and list of the centres providing community rehabilitation day centre services.

To promote social services of Yuen Long in a positive way, Yuen Long District Social Welfare Office has arranged a series of feature articles on Ming Pao (NT West Edition).  Six editions (from July to December 2006) will cover services of Family and Child Protective Service Unit, Integrated Family Service Centre, Support Team for the Elderly, Social Security Field Unit, Youth Outreaching Service, Community Support Service for Ex-mentally Ill Persons.  The updated issues can be downloaded here. (Chinese version only) :

Issue.1(22.7.2006)
Issue.2(19.8.2006)
Issue.3(16.9.2006)
Issue.4(14.10.2006)

The Social Welfare Department (SWD) is going to commission non-governmental organisations (NGOs) to run the Fourth Batch of Intensive Employment Assistance Projects (IEAPs) and the District Employment Assistance Trial (DEAT) Projects in a two-year period from October 2006 to September 2008. The Project Vetting Committee has selected 40 projects for Fourth Batch of IEAPs and three DEAT Projects among a total of 113 proposals.

Details of the Fourth Batch of IEAPs
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Telephone numbers and addresses of the Operating Agencies running the Fourth Batch of IEAPs
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The First Batch of 40 IEAPs will be completed in September 2006. 30 projects for the Second Batch and 35 projects for the Third Batch of IEAPs will continue to provide services to the needy unemployed.

Telephone numbers and addresses of the Operating Agencies running the Second and the Third Batch of IEAPs
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Details of the DEAT Projects
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Telephone numbers and addresses of the Operating Agencies running DEAT Projects (3 projects)
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The Rehabilitation and Medical Social Services Branch has issued an invitation letter dated 22 September 2006 to the NGOs (welfare) for their tendering of quality proposal for the operation of the following new pre-school rehabilitation project:

• the Special Child Care Centre cum Early Education and Training Centre (SCCC cum EETC) at 1/F., Community Ambulatory Care Centre, Tang Shiu Kin Hospital

Site visits and a briefing session will be held with schedules as follows:

1. 29 September 2006, 2:30 p.m. to 3:45 p.m. -
   site visit to the new SCCC cum EETC at 1/F., Community Ambulatory Care Centre, Tang Shiu Kin Hospital; and
2. 29 September 2006, 4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. ¡V
   a briefing session of the project at Room 406, Lady Trench Training Centre, 44 Oi Kwan Road, Wan Chai, Hong Kong.

Service proposal of no more than 40 pages (A4 with font size at 13 and in 6 hard copies and 1 soft copy), should be sent on or before 20 October 2006 (Friday), 5:00 p.m. to the following address:

Rehabilitation and Medical Social Services Branch
(Attn: Mr CHAN Kwok Ho, SS(RM)1)
Social Welfare Department
Rm 901, Wu Chung House
213 Queen¡¦s Road East, Wan Chai, Hong Kong.

Late application will not be accepted.
Please click here to download the Invitation Letter (copy), Summaries and full sets of the Service Specification and related Annexes of the project.

Invitation-NGOs         MS Word Document    Acrobat Document
Service Specification  MS Word Document    Acrobat Document
Annex 1                   Acrobat Document
Annex 2a                 MS Word Document    Acrobat Document
Annex 3.1                Acrobat Document
Annex 3.2                Acrobat Document
Annex 4                   MS Word Document     Acrobat Document
Annex 5.1                MS Word Document     Acrobat Document
Annex 5.2                MS Word Document     Acrobat Document
Annex 6                  MS Word Document     Acrobat Document

With a view to promoting the employment opportunities and vocational rehabilitation services for people with disabilities, Social Welfare Department launched the first issue of the electronic magazine "Sky" in January 2006.  The second issue of the electronic magazine is published. You are welcomed to read the magazine at the department sponsoring website http://www.cyberable.net.

Should you have any enquiry, please contact Ms CHAN Mei-yi at 2892 5156 or Miss Rita HO at 2892 4157.

The Task Group on Implementation of Integrated Family Service Centres (IFSCs) (Task Group), comprising representatives from all the nine Non-governmental Organizations (NGOs) operating IFSCs, two NGOs operating the Integrated Services Centres in Tung Chung, 12 District Social Welfare Offices of Social Welfare Department (SWD) and the Hong Kong Council of Social Service, was formed in May 2004 to discuss on operational issues and common areas of concerns arising from the implementation of IFSCs.  A total of eighteen Task Group meetings have been held between May 2004 and September 2006.  You may retrieve the notes of the meetings in the following section: 

Notes of meeting	Month / Year
First meeting Second meeting	September 2004
Third meeting	October 2004
Fourth meeting	November 2004
Fifth meeting	December 2004
Sixth meeting	January 2005
Seventh meeting	March 2005
Eighth meeting	April 2005
Ninth meeting	June 2005
Tenth meeting	July 2005
Eleventh meeting	September 2005
Twelfth meeting	October 2005
Thirteen meeting	December 2005
Fourteenth meeting	February 2006
Fifteenth meeting	April 2006
Sixteenth meeting	June 2006

You may download here the notes of the seventeenth meeting.

The list of Charitable Fund-raising Activities in public places in October 2006 issued with Public Subscription Permit (PSP) can be downloaded here.

You can also click here to make use of the Electronic Service Delivery (ESD) with search function for more information on approved fund-raising activities.

The list of Flag Day Organisers from April 2006 to March 2007 can be downloaded here.

You can also click here to make use of the Electronic Service Delivery (ESD) with search function for more information on flag day.