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| Name of Organization |
The Boys’ and Girls’ Clubs Association of Hong Kong |
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| Mission |
Nurture the Young Create the Future
1.To help children and youth attain well-balanced development
2.To nurture children and youth to be contributing citizen
3.To strengthen the functioning of families
4.To promote the concern of parents and the public for the public for the welfare of the youngsters, in particular those in disadvantageous environments
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| Telephone |
2527 9121 |
| Fax |
2865 4332 |
| Email |
info@bgca.org.hk |
| Website |
http://www.bgca.org.hk |
| Address |
3 Lockhart Road, Wanchai, Hong Kong |
| Chairperson |
Professor MOK Bong-ho |
| Chief Executive |
Ms. Lilian Law |
| Year of Establishment |
1936 |
| Registration & Number |
Certificate of Incorporation 3330 |
| Tax-Exempt Charity |
Yes, Ref No. 91/20 |
| Agency Member of HKCSS |
Yes |
| Member Agency of the Chest |
No |
| Subvented by the Social Welfare Department |
Yes, over 50% of total income |
| Religious Background |
Nil |
| Political Background |
Nil |
| Core Services |
1. Serving Children in Poverty through enhancing the chance of their development and success in our neighborhood centers and special projects. To facilitate the social and human assets building of the children to face the future challenge through joining hands with different parties.2. Enhancing Children’s Mental health through promoting positive thinking, life styles and supportive networks among children and their families.3. Reinforcing Family Support and Nurture through programmes and research which strengthen Family’s resilience and advocate for a “Family Friendly” environment respectively4. Encouraging Children’s Social Participation by providing opportunities for them to express their opinions, widening their exposure, promoting their civic consciousness and raising their awareness of children’s right.5. Developing National Education for Children through enhancing their understanding of China in factual, experiential and emotive aspects, so as to develop in our young concerns and critical thinking of Chinese affairs.6. Serving Children with Developmental Difficulties and provide support to their parents, including Specific Learning Difficulties, Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorders and Autism. 7. Providing community support to children and youth(aged from 2 -35) and their families, especially those from disadvantage backgrounds through our 20 Integrative Services Centers, Youth Employment Supportive Services, School Social Work services, School Support Services, Afterschool Care Services, Family Life Education, Kindergartens, Outreaching Services, Hotline and Counseling services and Small Group Homes. |
| Recent Achievements |
1.Community Support — The Association provides service to the public through its extensive community network; we deliver service among 18 district of Hong Kong and serve over 400 schools. The Association has over 50,000 registered members
2.Serving Children in Poverty Breaking the Poverty Cycle —Special projects provide intensive support services to children in poverty are developed in Shumshuipo (Child-friendly Community Network), Kwun Tong (Growing Partners; Revive My Dreams Project), Tai Wai, Fanling and Tuen Mun (Caltex Project Chance). These projects have served more than 400 children and their families. Moreover, an effective and systematic intervention model is developed, the model builds around the learning, health, emotional development, parent-child relationship and social network building and mentorship elements of the participants.
3.Strengthen the Competitiveness of the Marginal Youth—“Youth Employment Supportive Service Project” aims at nurturing a proper working attitude and job skills for junior high school dropouts through its one-stop service design, this project has liaised over 300 employers to provide job placements to more than 400 teenagers in the year between 2005 -2007. 80 % of the participants were successfully employed after joining the project.
4.Promote Children’s Reading Cultural Asset Building — The Association began to promote the concept of “Reading community” since 2001. The “Children Reading Festival” was organized since 2003 and had become one of the most important local activities in response to the “4.23 World Book Day” every year. Our “Reading for Tomorrow” project provided service to 571,481 recipients in 667 schools. Moreover, The Association is appointed by the International Broad of Book for Young People to be the Hong Kong representative of the China Branch in 2007.
5.Encourage Children to Voice Out — A series of scheme are organized by BGCA in recent years, such as Junior CEs (2001), Junior Councilors (2003) and the BGCA Broadcasting Channel to establish platform for children and youth to voice out their opinions and to nurture their critical and independence.
6.The Present of Children The Future of Society — In 2006, the Association launched the first “Children Developmental Index” (Children’s Health) in Hong Kong. It is hope that more “child-friendly” social policies and eventually a “child-friendly” society can be built through facilitating the public’s understanding of the developmental environment of local children. 7.Nurture Children through Joining Hands —78corporate partners were successfully nominated as Caring Company in 2008. Among them, more than 500 staff volunteers from over 10 corporate spent more than 4,000 hours to deliver service to our children in need. Moreover, 5 service projects are developed to serve children in poverty with the collaboration of our corporate partners.
8.Promote the Public Concern of Children through Research Study and Book Publishing — Through continuous effort on conducting research and book publishing, the Association hope to raise the public awareness of the social circumstance e of our children. With findings from the studies, we could have better service planning and policy advocacy. Books Published: “Legislation about Children”, “Children Stories behind Poverty”, “Living with Resilience Series”, “Health Pyramid – A Physical and Psychological healthy Child Development”.Research/ Survey: “Health Quality of Children in Poverty”, “Working Parents –The Impact of their Working Environment on their Children and Families”, “Study on Children’s Developmental Asset - Combat the Intergeneration Poverty – Children’s Asset Building” and the “Survey on Parents’ Knowledge on Child-related Laws”.
9. “Child-friendly” Counseling — In order to promote the “Child-friendly” Counseling, the Association is the sole training provider of the Accredited Play Therapy in Hong Kong between the year 2006 -2008. |
| Pioneer Projects |
1. “Revive My Dreams” Project —With the sponsorship from Jing Mei Group of Companies and Partnership Fund for the Disadvantaged, aim to enhance deprived children’s learning capability and self-efficacy.
2. “Mission Well” Project — With the Collaboration of the HKFI, the project aims at imbuing the youth with a healthy attitude towards financial management, so as to establish and achieve the personal goals on future career path and personal development. 3. “Happy learning Project for young children with Special Education Needs (SEN)” – An one-stop support service to pre-school children with SEN. The project that emphasizes on joint efforts from families, schools and communities as well as early intervention.
4. “Change Your Future” project — the 2-year project was launched jointly by the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and the Boys’ and Girls’ Clubs Association of Hong Kong in July 2008. The target of the project is Form 4 students from low-income families. The project seeks to encourage young people from a disadvantaged background to plan for the future and cultivate positive attitudes with a view to reducing inter-generational poverty. And also encourage young people to develop an asset-building habit and to accumulate financial as well as non- financial capitals, such as “human capital” and “social capital”.
5. “Pilot Project for the Gifted Underachievers – Children and Parents from Low-income Families” - a special package of service to these underachieving “gifted” children and their parents; especially those coming from low to modest income families. It would provide a suitably differentiated and challenging curriculum and exposure to gifted children, as well as appropriate personal and group support to their parents.
6. “Pilot Project for Children with Developmental Difficulties in Tin Shui Wai” – the project aims at providing support for children with developmental difficulties. Our team will be committed not only to enhance the growth and development of children, but also empower them to face their developmental challenges. In addition, we also strive to promote a child-friendly environment within the community, to increase public awareness for the disadvantaged children, as well as to encourage the public to jointly build a better future for our children.
7. “Amway’s Smiley Children--- Mental Health Enhancement Project”- The project is dedicated to those children and adolescents who suffer from emotional stress, low resilience to adversity and even anxiety or depression. It aims to help them cope with stresses and to manage their emotions. Furthermore, it encourages them to develop a positive attitude, to appreciate and leverage their own strength to face adversities. |
| Future Development |
1. Mentorship Network：To Enhance a proper mentorship for those children in need through a more extensive and comprehensive network.
2. National Education for Children：Enhancing the Children’s reflection on their relationship with China and their understanding of China with a global perspective through various educational activities, exchange tours. Moreover, a National education resource corner will also be established.
3. Consolidation of the experience in serving Children in Poverty： To share the working experience consolidated from our several projects with our fellows, so as to facilitate our combat towards the intergeneration poverty.
4. Publish Educational Tools on Financial Literacy：Financial Literacy Education can be further promoted through the collaboration of co-workers in welfare and educational sectors. |
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| Awards Received in the Past 3 Years |
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| Award of 10,000hrs for Volunteer Service | Social Welfare Department | 2009 | | Quality Education Fund Outstanding Project Award and Certificate of Merit 2008 | Quality Education Fund Steering Committee | 2008 | | Outstanding Partnership Project Award in Caring Company 2006/07(Caltex Project Chance | Hong Kong Council of Social Service | 2007 |
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