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| Name of Organization |
The Child Development Centre |
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| Mission |
Enabling children to achieve their full potential through educational and therapeutic intervention in order to access appropriate primary schooling
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| Telephone |
2849 6138 |
| Fax |
2849 6900 |
| Email |
info@cdchk.org |
| Website |
http://www.cdchk.org |
| Address |
41 Mount Kellett Road, The Peak, Hong Kong |
| Chairperson |
Sabrina Ho |
| Chief Executive |
Virginia Wilson |
| Year of Establishment |
1976 |
| Registration & Number |
Certificate of Incorporation 63358 |
| Tax-Exempt Charity |
Yes, Ref No. 91/1579 |
| Agency Member of HKCSS |
Yes |
| Member Agency of the Chest |
No |
| Subvented by the Social Welfare Department |
Yes, less than 25% of total income |
| Religious Background |
NA |
| Political Background |
NA |
| Core Services |
The Child Development Centre is a non-profit charitable organisation established 34 years ago,offering early intervention services to children aged 0 to 6 years with developmental delays.
Centre services include baby clinic, toddler group, pre-school programmes, speech and social skills programmes, sensorimotor programmes, individualised educational programmes, play stimulation, family support & counselling. The working language is English and the Centre takes in children of all nationalities. The Centre is also a resource for all parents and child care professionals, providing parent counselling, consultancy, child development training. |
| Recent Achievements |
The Centre has committed its resources, whether through subvention or fundraising,to create more innovative programmes (described below), and to deploy its resources efficiently and in a timely manner. When the Centre was faced with a waitlist of over 14 to 18 months, the Centre’s Executive Committee, with support from the Matilda International Hospital and numerous community members,raised funds to renovate the Centre. The renovation directly helped to cut down the waitlist to less than four months.
The Centre has always strived to surpass the standards of performance set forth by the SWD. For the year 2007-08, 50% of students who left the CDC entered mainstream kindergartens and primary schools, and 20%of them entered learning support classes. This impressive outcome is a direct result of the quality programmes and services that the children received at CDC. |
| Pioneer Projects |
The Centre is the first in HK to integrate typical children and those with special needs into group sessions in Hong Kong . The Centre believes that all children should be given equal access to quality education, and be provided with the opportunity to reach their full potential, regardless of their different abilities. It is in this spirit that the Centre started the first integrated centre for disabled children in Hong Kong 34 years ago. |
| Future Development |
The CDC has had tremendous success in the past few decades improving the lives of our children, and we have a strong record of innovation and progress. However, the Centre staff and Executive Committee realise that there is an urgent call for a new centre to satisfy the high demand of special needs and early intervention services to be provided to our community.
Because of this need, the CDC is looking for a new location, we will be able to bring our services to the families who need it, and help these children with special needs as early as possible. |
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