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New Project to Promote
Humanistic Addiction Treatment Model
in Substance Abuse in the Mainland

"Rising Sun of Baiyun" is a new project initiated by the Committee on Mainland China Social Service Project and financially supported by the Agency Service Development Fund. It aims at promoting our Humanistic Addiction Treatment Model to the helping professionals engaged in the drug abuse field in Mainland China. The project will commence in January 2008 and is comprised of two phases.

In phase I, four psychotherapists from the Guangzhou Baiyun Drug Addicts Voluntarily Rehabilitation Centre will attach to our Jockey Club Lodge of Rising Sun, a residential treatment centre for substance abusers, for a 2-week internship program. Meanwhile, social workers of the Lodge of Rising Sun will go to the Guangzhou Baiyun Centre to provide a 6-day in-service training program for all the psychotherapists over there. In phase II, after localizing the Humanistic Treatment Model in a Mainland context, the Guangzhou Baiyun Centre and our Lodge of Rising Sun will join hands to organize training workshops for the drug-related professionals from different provinces.

It is our mission that treating the addiction problem is not just helping the drug abusers quit addiction but involves a recovery process that helps them to re-learn and re-define their way of thinking and acting, and to resume a normal life. Through this kind of cooperation between the Hong Kong Christian Service and the addiction treatment centres in Mainland China, our success in adopting a humanistic approach to treat drug abusers and substance addiction problems will produce positive influence to the drug-related professionals of the Mainland. They will be able to gradually shift from a treatment model of punitive or purely medical to an integrative and humanistic approach in helping the drug abusers.