KELY Support Group 
Our Programmes
1. Seeing the Possibilities Mentorship Project
2. Defeat Failure, Get Positive
3. Keeping it REAL (Refuse, Explain, Avoid & Leave)
4. Speak IT!
5. Dare to Dream Academy for Performing Arts
6. It's Not Just About Saying "NO"
7. Body Image Training Camp
8. Drug Awareness Workshops
9. There's Always Tomorrow - A Youth Suicide Prevention Project
10. Enhancement of KELY’s Helpline and the Establishment of an Activity Hub
1. Seeing the Possibilities Mentorship Project
Description:
Seeing the Possibilities Mentorship Project aims to connect young people with positive mentors so they can develop to their fullest potential. Young people are often confronted with various emotional and behavioral difficulties, and the lack of good role models can inhibit their potential. Through this programme, mentors will help youth overcome their challenges by providing a caring and supportive environment. Activities include a mentorship programme, life planning and self esteem workshops, vocational sessions, orientation retreat and circus training.
Duration
September 2010 to August 2011
Funder
The Burberry Foundation
Language
Chinese
Contact Person
Sky Siu
Email
skysiu@kely.org
2. Defeat Failure, Get Positive
Description
Using circus training, Defeat Failure Get Positive aims to help students acquire coping skills to overcome fear of failure and enable them to provide peer support to their friends and family. Targeted at students from low-income neighborhoods who lack interpersonal skills, the project provides a venue for youths to artistically voice their concerns. Young people are required to organize community service projects as a part of their programme in order to empower them as stakeholders in their communities.
Duration
August 2010 to March 2011
Funder
The Community Chest of Hong Kong
Language
Chinese
Contact Person
Ivan Ng
Email
ivanng@kely.org
3. Keeping it REAL (Refuse, Explain, Avoid & Leave)
Description
Keeping it REAL aims to equip young people with practical drug-refusal skills and raise awareness on drug issues through youth-centred multimedia and interactive forums. Activities include anti-drug workshops, playback theatre training, video-making training as well as the design and construction of an interactive anti-drug game site. The culmination of these efforts will be on full display at Hong Kong’s first Keeping it REAL Anti-Drug Festival and Declaration Day, where young people will come together and express their feelings on drugs through various artistic and multi-media mediums.
Duration
September 2009 - January 2011
Funder
Beat Drugs Fund
Language
Chinese and English
4. Speak IT! A Multimedia Strategy to Prevent At-Risk Youth from Entering the Criminal Justice System
Description
Speak IT! aims to create an accessible and peer-specific venue for youths to articulate their views on the criminal justice system via theatrical arts and interactive dialogue with policy makers, as well as to come up with proactive community strategies. The programme encompass a series of consultations, outreach, tool development and playback theatre skills training targeted at youth at risk. The finale will be a symposium with playback theatre youth performance, workshops and guest speakers.
Duration
October 2010 to September 2011
Funder
The Rotary Club of Kowloon
Language
Chinese and English
5. Dare to Dream Academy for Performing Arts
Description
Dare to Dream Academy for Performing Arts aims to use the arts as a platform for discussion, development and mentorship on 4 issues: poverty and unemployment, drugs and alcohol addictions, chronic low self-esteem and bullying. Activities include self-awareness workshops, focus groups, dance and drama training, fashion design training, circus training, make-up training and school performance. Through this programme, youth will develop important life skills including problem solving, negotiation and critical thinking skills.
Duration
June 2010 to September 2011
Funder
Chen Yet-Sen Family Foundation
Language
Chinese
Contact Person
Sky Siu
Email
skysiu@kely.org
6. It's Not Just About Saying "NO"
Description
It's Not Just About Saying "NO" aims to leverage the influence of the media and encourage youth to communicate with their peers on issues of drug abuse. Targeted at students from the Yuen Long and Tin Shui Wai districts, youth will develop their own creative platforms for change through the coordination of a city-wide anti-drug advertising campaign. Other activities include substance abuse and self awareness training sessions and advertising training. Through this programme, young people will gain important self confidence, teamwork, critical thinking and leadership skills. Most importantly, the overall aim of the project is to bring down the rate of youth drug and alcohol abuse in Hong Kong.
Duration
June 2010 – August 2011
Language
Chinese
Funder
Fu Tak Iam Foundation
Contact Person
Sky Siu
Email
skysiu@kely.org
7. Body Image Training Camp
Description
Extensive studies have shown that media influences mainstream culture and behaviours, especially on how young people view themselves. This programme aims to bring women together to question the power of media, explore its damaging effects on women and to develop long term strategies for systemic change. Through self awareness, body image and media training workshops, the girls will be equipped with essential skills to combat the media's misrepresentation of young women.
Duration
September 2010 - March 2011
Funder
The American Women’s Association of Hong Kong
Language
Chinese
8. Drug Awareness Workshops
Description
According to the 2008/09 Narcotics Division Survey, in 2008 and 2009, drug pervasiveness among students at the age of 12 or under was 4.6%, up from 2.4% in 2004 and 2005. The Drug Awareness Workshops aim to raise awareness of the risk factors for drugs and alcohol abuse, including negative peer pressure, relief of boredom, depression or anxiety, and curiosity. Activities include discussions, debates, interactive role-play and poster-making campaign.
Duration
September 2010 - August 2011
Funder
Narcotics Division
Language
Chinese and English
Contact Person
Sky Siu
Email
skysiu@kely.org
9. There's Always Tomorrow - A Youth Suicide Prevention Project
Description
There’s Always Tomorrow aimed at instilling within vulnerable youths a sense of hope even in the most adverse and challenging of circumstances by addressing the issue of youth suicide through engaging the local community and building their capacity. Moreover, the programme can engender practical skills among teachers, social workers and vulnerable youth so they can identify risk factors on their environment providing support for each other and making informed choices. Through increasing awareness of the suicide prevention services, lives can be saved.
Durations
December 2010 to July 2011
Funder
ACCA Charitable Foundation Limited (ACCA)
Language
Chinese
Contact Person
Sky Siu
Email
skysiu@kely.org
10. Enhancement of KELY’s Helpline and the Establishment of an Activity Hub
10.1 Establishment of an Activity Hub
Description
There are about 7,300 runaway youths per year on average. They often end up in parks, local arcades, shopping centers, crashing at a friend’s apartment or spending their nights in bars and clubs.
Many times, youths who are facing compounded issues and alienation do not see a way out and try to hold on to what little support or validation they can receive through endeavoring in harmful behaviors or associating with negative peer influence.
KELY’s Activity Hub is a “safe space” where young people can be in positive contact with other young people to receive mentorship and support in addressing their issues.
10.2 Youth Helpline Service
Description
The Youth Helpline Service aims to provide a peer-led, non-judgmental support service for youth to help them face drug abuse and suicide issues, as well as to assist them in seeking appropriate support. Operated by KELY staff and volunteers, the helpline operates between 10am-5pm from Monday to Friday to provide emotional support to youth who are facing challenges on their journey to adulthood.
Duration
September 2010 - August 2011
Funder
The American Club (HK)
Language
Chinese and English
Contact Person
Sky Siu
Email
skysiu@kely.org
