Caritas Supportive Service for Adults with Relational Wounds | 明愛家庭服務

Service Introduction

Since April 2024, the Caritas Supportive Service for Adults with Relational Wounds (The Project) has been sponsored by The Community Chest of Hong Kong (The Chest) to provide supportive services for adults with relational wounds. 

Living in a rapidly changing society, people need to pay more effort in nourishing and maintaining interpersonal relationships. It is an opportunity to review your interaction patterns with others whilst encountering setbacks in interpersonal relationships. If you find yourself having difficulty in trusting others, avoiding connections with others, having repeated unhealthy relational dynamics, having intense fear of abandonment, or low self-esteem, it is a signal to take a rest, explore individual needs and seek resources to make a change. 

Chinese name of the Project signifies the meaning of “a safe place to cultivate relationship with care and provide nourishment for the heart to keep it moving forward”. The Project offers a safe place for adults who have experienced relational wounds, provides them with self-care groups, workshops, and individual counseling services. It assists service users in reconstructing experiences in interpersonal relationship and build up confidence in cultivating healthy interpersonal relationship.
 

Service Objectives

1.    To render supportive service for adults with relational wounds
2.    To establish mutual support community for adults with relational wounds
3.    To raise public awareness of relational wounds impacts and promote self-care concept
 

Service Target

1.    Adults suffered from with relational wounds (relationships include but not limited to familial bonds, friendship, colleague & intimate partner)
2.    General public

Service Content

Groups 
Assist service user to enhance self-awareness, establish new experience in interpersonal relationship and build up confidence in establishing healthy interpersonal relationship through the provision of mutual support groups about self-care and interpersonal skills.  

Workshops
Render workshops with different themes (e.g. separation and intimacy), assisting service user to explore individual needs and limitations, and learn emotion regulation techniques. 

Community Education
Provide general public with community educational talk and online resources so as to raise public awareness of relational wounds impacts and promote self-care concept.

Individual Counselling (in-person)
Service user who has participated in group work will be rendered no more than 8 individual follow up sessions.
 

Service Charge

Free of charge (Assessment will be made by social worker to ensure service content matches needs of applicant).