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.