Jinwan Centre for Disability Services (Jinkangyuan Branch, Zhuhai), the only district-level of comprehensive service centre for disabled people, was formally put into operation at the beginning of this year. UIC's Centre for Social Management Research and Services has started to conduct the professional services project for one year since it undertook the project.
Zhuhai Disabled Persons' Federation launched the project. The centre adopts the management mode that Jinwan District Disabled Persons' Federation conducts the centre construction and equipment purchases. At the same time, UIC's Centre for Social Management Research and Services is responsible for the operation. The centre provides rehabilitation training for children, teenagers and adults of Jinwan who have hearing or speech disorder, physical disabilities or diagnosis. It also covers the services and supports for their families. The centre commits to providing systematic rehabilitation training services for children, teenagers, adults, and nursing work.
Jinwan Centre for Disability Services (Jinkangyuan Branch, Zhuhai)
Recently, UIC's President Prof Tang Tao; UIC Provost Professor Chen Zhi; Associate Vice President (Internationalisation), Dean of Division of Humanities and Social Science, Professor Adrian J. Bailey; and Director of SWSA Programme Dr Chan Kam Tong; and Project Supervisor of UIC's Centre for Social Management Research and Services, Mr Ng Yiu-Fai, met six distinguished guests in UIC, including Deputy Head of Jinwan District Zhuhai City, Ms Liu Xiaoman; and President of Jinwan District Disabled Persons' Federation, Mr Chen Yuansong.
Ms Liu Xiaoman (fifth from the right) and Mr Chen Songyuan (fourth from the left) visiting UIC
Liu Xiaoman said that both sides would cooperate closely to develop the centre as a model for disabled people rehabilitation training and as a base of talent cultivation.
Liu Xiaoman
According to President Tang, UIC's Centre for Social Management Research and Services was dedicated to the innovation of social governance in Zhuhai and services for the disabled. The centre will cooperate closely with the People's Government of Jinwan District in Zhuhai to cultivate local service-oriented talents and promote the specialisation of service for disabled people.
President Tang
In recent years, UIC has been promoting cooperation and communication in this area. Since 2018, UIC's Centre for Social Management Research and Services has taken responsibility for several projects, including Model Family Project for Disabled People, Vocational Rehabilitation Service Project for Mental Disabled People, Project for Autistic Children to Get into Mainstream Society, and Zhenkangyuan Work Therapy Station at Hongqi Town, Jinwan District, Zhuhai City.
According to Mr Ng Yiu-Fai, the projects aim to encourage disabled people to get a job and get into mainstream society. These projects provide the disabled rehabilitation training, vocational guidance, daytime care, etc. The centre assists disabled people in establishing personal archives and project profiles; merging and developing internal and external resources, and holding regular events; help them explore individual potentials, so that they could get to know themselves correctly and boost their self-confidence and self-esteem.
Since its establishment, the centre has undertaken more than 95 projects, actively promoting social work cooperation with the local government and related social organisations. Attaching the importance of innovation on social service, the centre launched a one-year itinerant service project to pension institutions, serving as the model for home-based care services. Also, it suggests implementing an advanced mode of simulated family in children's welfare institution. The centre has been boosting the localisation, specialisation and standardisation of social work in Zhuhai City in consecutive years. It has positive impacts on social work and social administration in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.
From MPRO
Reporter: Du Jiewen
Editors: Samuel Burgess, Deen He, Zhang Fan
