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2-year
family programme begins in Kowloon City District
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Primary
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Spotlight
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School Social Work |
The
Federation's social workers offer professional counselling
in 38 Hong Kong secondary schools. They deal with many
kinds of problems. They help those who fail to adjust
to life
at secondary school or have difficulty making friends.
They reason with those who break school rules and mediate
in cases of parent-child conflict. The service has just
been extended to include two new secondary schools, the
HKICC Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity at Inverness
Road in Kowloon City and the Creative Secondary School
in Tseung Kwan O. For more information, contact Alice
Lui, School Social Work Unit, tel 2395 0161.
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Online
fantasy land:
a nightmare world for vulnerable youth
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Virtual communications and
virtual games are a reality in today's world but addiction
to that virtual world is also real. This reality is an issue
of deep concern because many of the addicts are young people.
They are dependent on that alternative world but it harms their
health, family life, contacts with friends and normal development
through school and into the workforce. Parents and teachers
are often at a loss for a solution and the statistics show
a disturbing upward trend. Our answer is to help by sending
a preventive message through educational programmes and the
promotion of sensible use of internet resources. |
About 10% of
young internet users in Hong Kong are online for an average
of 42 hours a week according to a Federation survey. * It
is worse on the Mainland, where 13% are classified as addicts.
A residential clinic dealing with the problem opened in Beijing
last year and its bed spaces have gone up from 30-400 since
it opened. The Mainland government's interim answer was to
institute an effective 3-hour limit for any online gaming
session and to work with game producers to discourage compulsive
playing. Wisernet is a forthcoming Federation project which
advocates controlled use of the web and raised awareness
for parents of the needs of problematic internet users.
Please contact us if you can help in any way.
See this week's Feature Story for more on internet
addiction and Facts and Figures for more statistics.
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Feature
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Webaholics:
a new kind of young addict
The average compulsive online gamer spends 5-10 hours
playing every day. Homework, dating, sport and family time
disappear from the lives of young people like this. We
talked to Cecilia, a frontline social worker who helps
these youngsters, to Beris, a worried parent and to Lucy,
a fourteen-year old who can’t stop playing. Read
on...
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Upcoming
Events |
Musical
Blessings 樂樂會
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Date: Sunday
3 September
Time: 4-5 pm
Place: Times Square Open Piazza II
40 young saxophone players and local pop singer, Jade Kwan
will perform with Patrick Chiu, HKFYG Music Director as
conductor and Kathy Lam from RTHK Radio 4 as presenter.
Programme: Clementi's Sonatina,
Op. 36, no.1, music from Andrew Lloyd Webber's Phantom
of the Opera and Mozart's Eine Kleine Nachtmusik.
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HKFYG
Lee Shau Kee College Opening |
Date: Friday
1 September
Place: Area 104, Tin Shui Wai, Yuen Long,
NT
First term for Secondary One students begins.
Information: tel 2146 1128 fax 2146 1662
e-mail education@hkfyg.org.hk |
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