Family Futures

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dvancing

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olidarity

under the sponsorship of the Community Chest, commenced

in October 2013. It aims at cultivating parental values to free

the children who are caught in the middle as scapegoats, assist-

ing separated and divorced parents to develop a child-focused

perspective and maintain healthy co-parenting relationships for

the best interests of their children in society. The ultimate goal

is to facilitate win-win solutions between the parents so that

their children can receive proper care and concern.

Our work focused on helping separated parents to shift

from ‘conflicting couples’ to ‘cooperating co-parents’ with

the common goal of children’s welfare, so that the chil-

dren can still develop solid parent-child relationships with

parents who are not living together. Our services include

assessment, education and conflict resolution with differ-

ent levels of intervention by FRC, MC and WFEC; and

co-work with partners like the judiciary, legal profes-

sionals, social service agencies and schools as alliances

in promoting co-parenting values. Our Family Mediators

and our Parenting Coordinators (trained by Cooperative

Parenting Institute of the United States) provide expert

services to enable co-parents to resolve recurrent disputes

concerning the formulation and implementation of parent-

ing plans. With years of experience accumulated in divorce

work, support among users was so encouraging that they

volunteered to form mutual help groups to help other

needy divorced parents. More than 80 divorced parents

Highlights and milestones for HKFWS anti-violence services

Source: HKFWS

BIP pilot project

1995

• HKFWS was the first NGO to run therapeutic groups for male batterers in Hong Kong

• Theory-based treatment group manual of Batterer Intervention developed with the aim of establishing an evidence-based clinical

intervention approach to this target group

Since

2005

• An in-depth BIP treatment group model designed to help batterers stop violence in spouse/cohabitant battering relationships

• Mutual aid groups/programmes for batterers conducted

As a recognized NGO on the list of court order to run AVP-SWD

Since

2007

• Many group facilitators have been trained during the running of BIP

• Rich and solid experience has been accumulated from serving batterers as well as training for social workers

Educational Programme on Stopping Domestic Violence

2013-

2015

• Act as ‘first aid’ class to urgently help batterers within four weeks’ time

• For batterers to learn skills in breaking cycle of violence

Women Helping Women against Violence Project

2012-

2014

• An educational project to enhance public sensitivity and awareness towards the importance of stopping violence in families

• Various educational programmes, workshops, talks and groups held for women who are at risk of family violence, to increase

their understanding on the impact of domestic violence and help them learn skills for self-protection

Highlights and milestones for HKFWS divorce services

Source: HKFWS

1988

Establishment of Family Resource Centre (FRC)

and publication of ‘Tsin’ – a newsletter for

single-parent families

1991

Research and study on needs of single parents

– a comprehensive study

1991

Publication of single parents’ self-help guide

1993

Establishment of mutual support group for single

mothers – Lok Fai Club

1997

Commencement of family mediation service

2000

Research for needs of single parents and

their children

2004

Rainbow Pioneers – a befriender support

project for divorced women and single mothers

2013

Expansion of Rainbow Pioneers

2013

A Beam of Hope – pilot project on child-focused

parenting coordination and co-parenting services

for divorced families