CSD holds Jockey Club Project ReBond kick-off event (with pictures)
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The Correctional Services Department (CSD) held the Jockey Club Project ReBond kick-off event at Lo Wu Correctional Institution today (October 23), carrying out a policy effort revealed by the Chief Executive in the 2025 Policy Address to offer one-stop rehab services for individuals in custody (PICs) serving sentences of less than one year, covering both their imprisonment and post-release durations, and to track and investigate their rehab scenario.
The Jockey Club Project ReBond is a collective effort produced and moneyed by The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust, and co-created by the CSD and SideBySide with the University of Hong Kong working as the understanding partner.
Dealing with the kick-off event, the Acting Commissioner of Correctional Services, Mr Ng Chiu-kok, stated that the CSD has actually been dedicated to boosting its corrective efforts to help PICs in restoring through suitable rehab programs. He revealed thankfulness to numerous stakeholders in society for their assistance in rehab work. He kept in mind that the job uses the theory of desistance, extending rehab services from correctional organizations to the neighborhood. This technique will help in reducing recidivism amongst fixed up individuals, restore their obedient identity and reconnect them with society, in addition to assistance them in returning to society, therefore slowly changing their lives.
The Head of Charities (Education & & Youth Cluster) of The Hong Kong Jockey Club, Ms Winnie Ying, in her address stated that proper help for fixed up individuals can successfully minimize recidivism and change them into social skill capital. The Hong Kong Jockey Club intends to, through the job and contribution, assistance short-term PICs equip themselves beginning with within the correctional organizations and reconstruct themselves after release with this ingenious one-stop technique, allowing them to much better reintegrate into society and add to Hong Kong.
In his address, the Chairperson of the Executive Committee of SideBySide, Mr Justice Poon Siu-tung, highlighted that the task looks for to accompany PICs and fixed up individuals by offering them with effortlessly linked and diversified assistance services from correctional organizations to the neighborhood. It will help them in setting objectives and slowly restoring relationships with others, so that they can reintegrate into society and end up being factors to the neighborhood. This marks a historic turning point.
The Acting Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Hong Kong, Professor Eric Fong, kept in mind that the job is an interdisciplinary cooperation incorporating competence and research study strengths throughout varied fields to offer detailed and multidimensional assistance services for fixed up individuals. It likewise marks the very first time in Hong Kong that a randomised control group clinical technique has actually been embraced to examine the job’s efficiency, offering important empirical information for rehab services, which will assist in the future advancement of more varied and efficient rehab techniques.
The Jockey Club Project ReBond will be executed at Lo Wu Correctional Institution, Pik Uk Prison, Tong Fuk Correctional Institution and Tai Lam Correctional Institution. It supplies one-stop rehab services for voluntary individuals serving sentences of less than one year. These consist of setting up ideal individual development group activities for PICs to establish individual strengths, develop favorable worths and life objectives, and enhance their obedient awareness through evaluations by expert social employees, consequently enhancing their willpower to restore. In addition, the job provides employment-related help and continues to act on the cases after their release from the correctional organizations. Through neighborhood activities, it assists PICs develop favorable socials media and facilitates their effective reintegration into society.
Under the task, the Correctional Rehabilitation Research Unit of the CSD will work together with the University of Hong Kong to perform a three-year research study to track and look into the rehab scenario of service users after their release.