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Introduction
Hong Kong Student Aid Society has started to provide Foster Care since November 2004. With Foster Care, we are now providing a complete spectrum of residential childcare services for needy children and their families.
Service Target
Foster Care is meant for children devoid of proper family care due to different reasons e.g. ill health, deaths and imprisonments of parents as well as families undergoing crises. Foster Care is provided to these children until such time as they are able to return to normal life of their original families, or are able to settle down in other more long-term form of residential care.
Features of
the Service
- Foster care service is provided by selected foster families that have gone through a stringent assessment proves.
- Foster care provides needy children with a clean and safe environment to live in.
- The foster home provides a warm and caring family life very much similar to that of a healthy and normal family.
- Regular visits would be provided by trained social workers to foster families.
- Whenever necessary, appropriate counselling and different kinds of professional support would be given to the foster families.
- It would be the responsibility of the social workers to attend patiently to the needs of the children and to tailor make a welfare plan best suiting each and every child.
Target Group
- Children aging from infancy to 18.
- Children temporarily deprived of proper family care.
- Children not suffering from serious health, emotional and behavioural problems.
- Children who have been medically examined and certified as not suffering from infectious diseases.
- Children who are assessed as suitable for Foster Care.
Application
All referrals from
qualified social workers of the Social Welfare Department
and subvented agencies will be screened by the Central
Referral System for Residential Care (CRSRC) administered
by the Social Welfare Department. Selected cases will then
relayed to us.
Enquiries
Foster Care Service, Hong Kong Student Aid Society
Telephone: 2702 6737 Fax: 2702 7420
Address: 2nd Floor, King To House, King Lam Estate, Tseung Kwan O, N.T.
Email: fostercare@hksas.org.hk
Central Foster Care Service, Social Welfare Department
Telephone: 2852 4596 Fax: 2581 9545
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