Project objectives
Jockey Club “Promoting Family Resilience” Project
Project Goals
To enhance the ability of families to cope with adversity, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, with the support of The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust, has partnered with Hong Kong Children and Youth Services, Hong Kong Family Welfare Society, The Salvation Army, and Tung Wah Group of Hospitals to deliver a three-year Jockey Club ‘Promoting Family Resilience’ Project since 2021. With the overwhelming success of the Project to enhance family resilience among Hong Kong families, the Project has been extended for three years, entitled Jockey Club ‘Promoting Family Resilience’ Project 2.0. A variety of programmes, including online family education channel, online E-learning course, family resilience resource hub, award scheme for schools, ambassador training for parents, community-based family intervention programmes, professional training and practice manual, and programme evaluation. The purposes of the Project include:
- to promote family resilience among families, including positive family beliefs, family cohesion and effective communication among family members;
- to create supportive environment and culture that promotes family resilience in schools; and
- to enhance professionals' knowledge and application of family resilience in their service
Project Objectives
(1) to establish an online platform for promoting family resilience;
(2) to build an extensive network for promoting family resilience in schools;
(3) to provide community-based intervention programmes for families in Hong Kong, particularly those that are vulnerable to adversity, to help them cope with the challenges of the post-pandemic period;
(4) to produce practice manuals for community-based intervention programmes using family resilience as an intervention approach to reinforce the sustainability of the approach;
(5) to enhance professional competencies of social workers, psychologists, family practitioners, counsellors, nurses and allied health professionals in providing family resilience programmes;
(6) to evaluate intervention programmes and professional training workshops and develop a database of evidence on programme effectiveness; and
(7) to develop local and international collaborations with scholars and practitioners in relevant fields.