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Richmond Fellowship of Hong Kong
Mission: "To provide comprehensive community-based health services . . . To continuously improve existing services and to develop new models of care in response to users needs . . . To empower users’ participation in policy formulationa and service provision."
In China since: 1987
Annual China budget: $12,712
Number of staff: 1 national and 1 expatriate
Mainland China contact:
Xu Chi,徐馳女士
Project Supervisor 計劃督導
廣東省510630廣州市天河區龍口西路375號地下利康家屬資源中心
Tel: +86 (0)20 3849 1506
Fax: +86 (0)20 3849 1503
Activities in Other Countries:
25 countries worldwide
The Richmond Fellowship community mental health programme began in Great Britain in 1959. It set up a ‘halfway house’ where mentally ill people who had been discharged from hospital could live while they were completing their recovery and reintegrating into the community. Since then the Richmond Fellowship’s idea of the therapeutic community as a mean of helping people to recover from mental illness has spread to more than 25 countries. The Richmond Fellowship of Hong Kong was established in 1984. It now runs four halfway houses in Hong Kong, along with other forms of community support service, including employment programmes, for people who have suffered from mental illness.
Early in 1987, Richmond Fellowship of Hong Kong began to co-operate with Guangzhou Civil Affairs Bureau, organising training and exchange programmes for mainland staff working in the mental health field. The Fellowhsip helped the Civil Affairs Bureau to set up a Psycho-social Rehabilitation and Training Centre in the Kam Sha Psychiatric Hospital. This houses 80 patients and provides daily psycho-social and vocational rehabilitation services. The facility is designed so that can serve as a training facility for psychiatric personnel from all over China.
The Fellowship has also helped the Guangzhou Disabled Persons Federation set up a LiKang Family Resource Centre. This provides information, counselling and other types of community rehabilitation support for people recovering from mental illness. It also helps family caregivers by providing home care for relatives with mental illness.
The Likang Centre also reaches out to different districts in Guangzhou through weekly consultation sessions and joint community education programmes with several street committees.
The Richmond Fellowship of Hong Kong’s funding comes from subventions from the Hong Kong government’s Department of Social Work, grants and donations from the Hong Kong Lotteries Fund, the Hong Kong Community Chest and the Hong Kong Jockey Club, and private donations.
Links
http://www.richmond.org.hk
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