particularly the Hong Kong Juvenile Care Centre, the Salvation Army's Norway Hostel, Rennies Mill Student Aid Project and the Society of Boys' Centres.
CHAPTER IV
FAMILY SERVICES DIVISION
48. The Family Services Division consists of a decentralized network of casework offices and supporting specialist services which are centrally administered. Together they are capable of dealing with a wide variety of social problems affecting both individuals and families, and they have been so organized that a person or a family with a multitude of social problems need normally approach only one casework office to obtain the assistance and advice they require.
49. The casework service is provided through four District Offices and five Family Services Centres. Specialist services are administered by Principal Social Welfare Officers with long experience in their respective fields; these officers act as consultants to the casework services and liaise with those voluntary welfare organizations which are working in the same fields of service. The whole Division is administered by a Senior Principal Social Welfare Officer,
CASEWORK SERVICES
50. Two of the four District Offices are situated in Hong Kong to serve the people living on Hong Kong Island, as well as those living on the offshore islands. In Kowloon two district offices have been set up to serve the people living in Kowloon and the New Territories.
51. Any person with any type of social problem affecting himself or his family may apply to the nearest District Office, Family Services Centre or Interview Office for advice or assistance. An applicant is first interviewed by an 'intake' caseworker who makes a general assessment of the nature of his client's problems and the extent of his needs; the applicant is then further interviewed by a caseworker to establish the extent to which assistance can be given and in what form. Such interviews are conducted in the privacy of interviewing rooms and the applicant is told that any information supplied by him is kept in the strictest confidence.
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