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Community Mental Health Intervention Project has commenced services since 1 October 2007.  The objective of this Project is to provide specialized social work intervention including casework, therapeutic and supportive group services to assist persons in the community with suspected mental health problems and / or their family members to deal with problems arising from their poor mental health conditions.

Please click here for information of the project and list of the operators providing the services.

"The Jockey Club IT Scheme for People with Visual Impairment" (5th round) and "Central Fund for Personal Computers" (17th round) now accept applications.  The deadline for both the Scheme and Fund is 7 December 2007.

Eligible organisations, educational institutes and individual persons with visual impairment may apply for "The Jockey Club IT Scheme for People with Visual Impairment" whereas "Central Fund for Personal Computers" is for eligible people with disabilities engaging in self-employment or supported employment service.

Detailed information and application forms can be downloaded from SWD Website:
http://www.swd.gov.hk/en/index/site_pubsvc/page_rehab/sub_listofserv/id_itforpeople/; or CyberAble.net: http://www.cyberable.net .

Enquiries can be made to Rehabilitation and Medical Social Services Branch, Social Welfare Department:

"The Jockey Club IT Scheme for People with Visual Impairment"
Telephone: 2892 5652; Email Address: srm3@swd.gov.hk; Fax: 2119 9035;

"Central Fund for Personal Computers"
Telephone No.: 2892 5156; Email Address: srm5@swd.gov.hk; Fax: 2119 9035.

The Department is now calling for application for Financial Support Scheme for Self-help Organizations of People with Disabilities covering a period from 1 April 2008 to 31 March 2010.  Bona fide non-profit making self-help organizations of people with disabilities, which have been formally registered under relevant ordinance(s) for not less than three years and not been receiving regular subventions from the Department are eligible to submit applications.  The closing of application is 19 November 2007 (Friday) 5:00 p.m.

• Letter of Invitation for Applications  pdf Acrobat file (Eng only)
• Guide to Application    pdf  Acrobat file (Eng)
• Application Form    word doc MS Word file (Bilingual)

The Social Welfare Department (SWD) has implemented the New Dawn Intensive Employment Assistance Projects (ND IEAPs) from April 2006 to September 2007.  The ND IEAPs aim at providing a package of intensive employment assistance services to help single parents and child carers on Comprehensive Social Security Assistance (CSSA) with no or limited working experience.  In view of the achievement of the ND IEAPs, SWD has again secured funding from the Lotteries Fund to commission non-governmental organizations as operating agencies to operate 20 projects under the Enhanced ND Project from October 2007 to March 2010 to continue to help and to enhance the employment assistance services to the CSSA single parents and child carers with their youngest child aged 12 to 14, to build up their capacities for self-help, so that they can integrate into the community through engagement in work and move towards self-reliance.

In response to the invitation for application for funding support to the Enhanced ND Project in August 2007, a total of 39 proposals from 31 operating agencies having experience in operating Intensive Employment Assistance Projects and ND IEAPs were received.  After the selection of the Project Selection Committee for the Enhanced ND Project, SWD has commissioned 20 operating agencies to operate 20 projects.

For further details of the Enhanced ND Project, please click here

For the name, address and telephone number of the operating agencies under the Enhanced ND Project, please click here

The Social Welfare Department is inviting non-governmental organizations (NGOs) operating subvented rehabilitation services for people with disabilities to submit an application to operate the Hostel for Moderately Mentally Handicapped Persons (HMMH) at Unit A, G/F, 1 Yeung Uk Road, Tsuen Wan, N.T.  Commencement of operation of the HMMH is planned to be in the fourth quarter of 2007-08.  Interested NGOs should submit applications to Rehabilitation and Medical Social Services Branch of Social Welfare Department, Room 901, 9/F Wu Chung House, 213 Queen's Road East, Wan Chai, Hong Kong.  The deadline for submission is 29 October 2007 (Monday), 5:00 p.m.  Please click here to download the Service Specification for this application

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, 11 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 twenty-three Task Group meetings have been held between May 2004 and September 2007.  You may retrieve the notes of the meetings in the following section:

Notes of meeting	Month / Year
First meeting	September 2004
Second meeting
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
Seventeenth meeting	September 2006
Eighteenth meeting	December 2006
Nineteenth meeting	February 2007
Twentieth meeting	April 2007
Twenty-first meeting	June 2007

You may download here the notes of the twenty-second meeting.

The list of Charitable Fund-raising Activities in public places in October 2007 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 2007 to March 2008 can be downloaded here.

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