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Cancer patients and local college students
<Life and Death Education training and service program>
Report on program effectiveness and future development

31 Oct 2012

This project is supported by the University of Hong Kong Knowledge Exchange Fund to promote academic-medical-social enterprise collaboration.

During the summer of 2012, the Department of Social Work and Social Administration and the Centre on Behavioral Health of the University of Hong Kong; the Pamela Youde Nethersole Eastern Hospital; and the Hong Kong Social Enterprise Incubation Centre jointly provided a Life and Death education and training course to cancer survivors and local college students and arranged them to visit and accompany terminally ill patients after the training.

By utilizing professional knowledge from the three parties, this project aimed at promoting life and death education as well as strengthening service learning among local college students. Besides, the training empowered the cancer survivors to make the best use of their personal experiences in helping other cancer patients and in turn enhance their own psychological wellbeing and resilience.

This project aimed at raising public awareness of hospice care in Hong Kong and hope that terminally ill patients would get more appropriate physical, psychological, social and spiritual care.

A press conference will be held on the progress of the project, details as follows:
Date：1 November 2012 (Thursday)
Time:3pm to 4pm
Venue： HKU Centre on Behavioral Health, 2/F., 5 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam
Interviews: Representatives of related institutions including hospitals, social enterprise and college students will meet the media. A press release will be issued on the event.

Guests
- Dr. Rainbow Ho, Assistant Professor, Department of Social Work and Social Administration; Director of the Centre on Behavioral Health, HKU
- Ms. Venus Wong, Teaching Consultant, Department of Social Work and Social Administration, HKU
- Dr. Rebecca Yeung, Chief of Service, Department of Clinical Oncology, Pamela Youde Nethersole Eastern Hospital
-  Dr. Inda Soong, Associate Consultant, Pamela Youde Nethersole Hospital Clinical Oncology Department
- Mr. Stephen Shiu , ASWO, Pamela Youde Nethersole Hospital Clinical Oncology Department Hospice Service
- Mr. Raymond Yim. Founding Director, the Hong Kong Social Enterprise Incubation Centre

Rundown　
- Dr. Rainbow Ho - Project introduction and impacts on students & Analysis on how this project apply to service learning development
- Student representatives - Sharing on learning and visiting experiences (Chinese medicine and Psychology students)
- Dr. Rebecca Yeung - Project impacts on cancer survivors and terminally ill patients
- Families of terminally ill patients - Sharing from families of patients who received the services (video)
- Mr. Raymond Yim - Conclusion on academic-medical-social enterprise collaboration and future direction

For details of the project, please contact:
Ms. Amy Choi, Centre on Behavioral Health, HKU (Tel:2831 5163/ email: amychoi@hku.hk ); or Ms. Joyce Sing, Centre on Behavioral Health, HKU (Tel: 2831 5216/ email: singcy@hku.hk ).