FRIDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1988
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IMPORTANCE OF FAMILY SERVICES STRESSED
*
OF
THE
GENERAL
DEMAND A PLANNING RATIO
150,000
IT IS THE GOVERNMENT'S POLICY TO MEET THE FULL COMMUNITY FOR FAMILY SERVICES BY FLEXIBLY ADOPTING OF THE ONE FAMILY SERVICES CENTRE FOR EVERY POPULATION BOTH IN NEW TOWNS AND IN OLD URBAN AREAS.
THE SECRETARY FOR HEALTH AND WELFARE, MR T.H. CHAU,
AT THE 34TH ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF THE TODAY (FRIDAY) FAMILY SERVICES CENTRES.
SAID THIS CHRISTIAN
"CURRENTLY, THERE ARE 400 PROFESSIONAL SOCIAL WORKERS IN 53 FAMILY SERVICES CENTRES, MR CHAU SAID.
SERVING
AMONG THESE CENTRES, 24 ARE OPERATED BY
SEVEN SUBVENTED
FAMILY THE CHRISTIAN
SERVICE VOLUNTARY WELFARE AGENCIES, INCLUDING CENTRE.
"THE OTHER 29
SERVICES FAMILY
CENTRES ARE IT'S 30TH
BY MANAGED
THE FAMILY SERVICES
-
SOCIAL WELFARE DEPARTMENT WHICH WILL OPEN CENTRE IN THE MIDDLE OF THIS MONTH.
TWO MR CHAU SAID THE DEPARTMENT ALSO HAD PLANS IN HAND TO OPEN
IN THE MORE CENTRES NEXT YEAR, ONE IN YUEN LONG NEW TOWN AND ANOTHER DENSELY POPULATED YAU TSIM-MONG KOK AREA.
THE MANPOWER OF
"AT THE SAME TIME,
THESE CENTRES WILL BE IMPROVED TO PROVIDE A BETTER QUALITY OF SERVICE," HE ADDED.
HAD BEEN AN CERTAIN CHINESE SEEK TIMELY
HOWEVER, MR CHAU POINTED OUT THAT ALTHOUGH THERE INCREASE IN THE NUMBER OF THE FAMILY SERVICES CENTRE,
FROM PEOPLE
COMING FORWARD то VALUES OFTEN HINDERED ASSISTANCE AT AN EARLY STAGE UNTIL THEIR PROBLEMS HAD WORSENED.
"OBVIOUSLY, PUBLICITY AND PROMOTION WORK IS NECESSARY DEVELOPMENT OF SOCIAL WELFARE SERVICES,
"I
HE SAID.
FOR THE
SOCIAL WELFARE
OF
To UNDERSTAND THAT "PEOPLE SHOULD BE HELPED SERVICES ARE NOT ALMS-GIVING BUT HAVE BECOME AN INDISPENSABLE PART MODERN LIFE.
TO SOLVE "THESE SERVICES HAVE THE FUNCTIONS OF HELPING PEOPLE
SOCIETY AS WELL AS IMPROVING ITS THEIR PROBLEMS, STABILISING THE QUALITY OF LIFE.
IS
SERVICES, WELFARE
IT "APART FROM THE PROVISION OF SOCIAL
CITIZENS REALISE NECESSARY TO HELP, THROUGH COMMUNITY EDUCATION, OUR
MUTUAL THEIR OWN RESPONSIBILITIES TO THEIR FAMILY MEMBERS AND PROMOTE AID AS WELL AS NEIGHBOURLINESS, SO THAT TIMELY ASSISTANCE CAN BE AVAILABLE TO FAMILIES-AT-RISK.
MADE
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