The project aims at raising students' levels of resilience and enhancing teachers' and parents' awareness on the mental well-being of their children through organizing various seminars/workshops for students, teachers and parents, school-wide activities, as well as identifying and providing support for those students with lower levels of resilience.
The project aims at increasing the awareness and knowledge on mental health in school context through providing a Youth Mental Health First Aid course to teachers and students.
The project aims at developing a social skills curriculum with local context in support of about 30-40 S1-S4 students with ASD from 5 secondary schools; enhancing schools' and the community's awareness of the need to nurture and develop ASD students' social skills; training their peers to be 'social coaches' to help them acquire social skills and build social network; as well as empowering teachers and about 40 parents in improving the social skills of students with ASD. Major deliverables include the production and distribution to all local secondary schools a curriculum package on developing the social skills of young people with ASD and dissemination seminar for secondary school teachers and social workers for sharing the project outcomes.