This territory-wide initiative aims to leverage peer support workers to lead outreach services from May 2025 to April 2028. The project focuses on training volunteers who are current or former substance users to identify hidden drug users at an early stage and facilitate their transformation. By integrating medical and social collaboration, the initiative seeks to assist participants in reflecting on their lives, enhancing their motivation to quit, and training them to become life guides who disseminate anti-drug messages.
Services
Social Rehabilitation
"Buddies & Buddies" - Peer Support Service on Hidden Drug Users' Life and Death Education
Service Objectives
The program involves a peer team, comprising peer support workers and their family members or significant others, to promote life and death education among concealed substance users. This educational approach is designed to encourage self-reflection and personal change, mitigate the risks associated with substance abuse, and ultimately foster a more inclusive and understanding social environment. Through life and death education, hidden substance users can rediscover their motivation for living, receive essential support and guidance during their recovery journey, and work toward achieving their goals of sobriety and personal transformation.
Service users
- Ex-drug users
- Active drug users
Scope of service
Phase One – Awakening Awareness and Life and Death Education
This phase encompasses outreach services, a healthy living group, a life and death education group, and medical and social collaboration. The aim is to raise awareness among drug users regarding the dangers of drug abuse, foster an understanding of the meaning of life and death, and facilitate early identification and engagement with drug users to enhance their motivation for rehabilitation.
Phase Two – Psychological Support and Life Reflection
This phase includes Train-the-Trainer groups, volunteer experience services, and life guides groups. The aim is to provide psychological support, helping drug users build self-confidence and reflect on the value of life.
Phase Three – Social Integration and Life and Death Education
This phase includes the creation of life commemorative books and life exhibitions. The aim is to assist drug users in reintegrating into society while providing ongoing support and education regarding life and death.
Service fee
Free of charge
Service Hours
| Mon to Friday |
9:00am–1:00pm 2:00pm–5:30pm |
| Saturday | 9:00am–12:00pm |
| Sundays and Public Holidays | Closed |
Service Application
- Referral from social workers or any concerned persons
- Self-approach
Service Withdrawal
Service can be terminated upon the worker's professional judgment and mutual agreement made with the service users. Service users may terminate service voluntarily at any juncture of the service process.
Enquiries and Contact
Tel：(852) 2327 7988
Fax：(852) 2324 1781
Email：pic_buddies@sidebyside.org.hk
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