Current Project – Resource Counselling

OUR PROJECTS

Post-COVID Psychological Recovery Project

Sponsored By: Drs. Richard Charles and Esther Yewpick Lee Charitable Foundation
Project Period: 7/2023 – 10/2025

Target beneficiaries:
General Public, Organizations/ Schools, Helping professionals

In response to the rising mental health needs after the pandemic, ReSource has expanded its "Psychological Crisis Intervention Response to Protest Aftermath and Covid-19 Outbreak in Hong Kong" (Link to 5.2.1) project, which successfully ended in 2023, into a more comprehensive program, now named the "Post-COVID Psychological Recovery Project".

Recognizing the continued growing demand for local mental health services after the pandemic, this enhanced program aims to facilitate psychological recovery and improve the overall mental wellness of the Hong Kong population through a multi-faceted MASS approach: EMpowering the community, raising public Awareness, providing Skills training for helping professionals, and motivating people to Seek timely and professional help when needed.

Project achievement:

Items	Aim of Service	Activities
eMpower	Increase beneficiaries’ resilience to deal with stress and negative emotions. Providing psychoeducation on promoting mental wellbeing, preventing mental illness and suicide, and reduce stigma on seeking help from professionals.	Design, create and 12,000 sets of mental health card decks to different walks of life in the society. Customize tailor-made 56 complimentary mental health events for different organizations which serve beneficiaries including children, teens, adults, family, parents, teachers, social workers, staff etc.
Aware	Quickly identify individuals at risk of mental illness Increase people’s understanding of how to recognize mental health issues, psycho-educate the public how to get help when needed.	Deliver psychological self-help knowledge and tips to the public online.
Skills training	Share good practice among helping professionals.	Organize a full-day conference related to counselling. Through keynote presentations and pre-conference workshops, the conference provides a platform to gather oversea and local experts in the field to share clinical knowledge.
Seek Help	Reduce public hesitation and delay in seeking professional help.	Implement counselling trials at $100/session for the first two sessions to motivate more people to try counselling. Extend our enquiry service to WhatsApp and social media direct message. We utilize these channels to provide timely mental health information and immediate emotional support.

Subsidized Counselling Service Program for Healthcare Professionals and Educators

Sponsored By:Fu Tak Iam Foundation Limited
Project Period: 2/2022 - 1/2024(Completed Successfully), 2/2024 – 1/2026 (Ongoing)

Target beneficiaries:
Doctors, Nurses, Medical students, Teachers

During the COVID-19 pandemic, frontline healthcare professionals (HCPs) and educators faced immense challenges. HCPs operated in high-risk clinical settings and had to isolate themselves after long shifts, leading to feelings of loneliness and sadness. Educators were significantly affected by the adoption of new online teaching models and increased workloads. Additionally, the growing shortage of staff in these two industries worsened the mental health of these professionals.

In response to these growing mental health concerns, ReSource launched a customized counseling program in 2022 to support the wellbeing of these frontline workers.

The program provided timely, professional, and affordable counseling services to healthcare workers (doctors, nurses, and medical students) and educators. To accommodate their busy or shift-based schedules, ReSource offered additional online counseling sessions, including odd-hour and weekends options.

To further support these target groups, ReSource also established the "anti.burnout.club" social media platform. This channel raised awareness about mental health and motivated frontline professionals to utilize the counseling services to address challenges in their work, family, and personal lives.

The pilot program achieved great success, prompting ReSource to extend the initiative until 2026. Continuous funding support from the Fu Tak Iam Foundation has been crucial to the ongoing success of this comprehensive mental health recovery project.

Project achievement during Pilot stage (2022 – 2024):

Items	Service Details
Subsidized Counselling Services	1,349.5 counseling hours 152 clients
Interactive Workshops	Held a "Deep Relaxation Experience Day" for HCPs and educators. Participants were able to retain inner peace through mindfulness, dream exploration, and Oh Card workshops.
Sharing of Mental Health Tips Online	Created a series of mental health posts in a new social media page anti.burnout.club, sharing topics like reduce workplace stress, tips on preventing burnout, etc.

Subsidized Counselling Service Program (Sandwich Class)

Sponsorship：Fu Tak Iam Foundation Limited
Project Period: 8/2014 – 10/2021 (Completed Successfully), 2/ 2022 – 1/ 2025 (Ongoing)

Target beneficiaries:

The program aims to provide professional psychological counselling services to the "sandwich class" - individuals, couples or families whose household incomes are too high to qualify for government or NGO assistance programs, but too low to afford ongoing private counselling.

This program was established to fill a critical service gap and ensure that members of the general population who fall into this income range can access timely, affordable and professional counselling support. Thanks to the sponsorship of the Fu Tak Iam Foundation, the program has been able to employ two regular part-time counsellors who not only see clients directly, but also contribute their expertise to our public psychoeducation efforts.

The program utilizes an income-based sliding fee scale service model to make the counselling services accessible to the target population. This ensures that individuals whose household income below $105,000 can receive the mental health support they require at rates they can afford.

The continued support of the Fu Tak Iam Foundation has been instrumental in extending this important program until January 2025. This extension will allow us to continue supporting an even greater number of individuals in the community who require access to professional mental wellness services.

Project achievement:

Items	Service Details
Subsidized Counselling Services	8 / 2014 – 10 / 2021 (7 years & 2 months) : 6,156 counselling hours for 839 people
Sharing of Mental Health Tips Online	Created mental health social media posts about practical psychology knowledge, ways of dealing with partner and family relationships, and information of different mental health issues.