• Children from birth to 18 years old who cannot be adequately cared for by their own families.
• Children with normal health and intelligence or with mild mental or physical disability or other special needs and being assessed as fit for family care can apply for the service.

• Assess service applications and understand the needs and expectation of the children and their families.
• Match each child with suitable foster home and make arrangement for admission.
• Visit children and foster homes regularly and to provide support and counseling.
• Arrange case review meetings with related parties, review the children’s progress and needs, set up individual work plans and discuss the long-term welfare plan of the children.
• Provide at least 3-months after-care service to children who have lived in foster homes.
• The children stay in foster homes overnight and receive 24 hours services
• Training for foster parents
• Home assessment for prospective foster families
• Promotion of foster care service
• Refer and arrange foster children and related parties to receive subsidized clinical psychological service (ABCPS)

• Free meal and accommodation
• Parents (or guardians) are responsible for the school related expenses and other special expenses of their children according to the agreement made with them.

• Applicants have to be assessed and referred by social workers or specified professionals.
• The referral will be sent to our agency via the Central Foster Care Unit of the Social Welfare Department.

• Service users may withdraw from our service at any stage given that prior discussions with the referring worker and foster care worker have been made.
• Our agency reserves the right to terminate the service under the following circumstances:
  • Service users’ behaviors cause dangers to the service providers or other service users.
  • Service users no longer meet the service requirements

Mon: 9:00am-1:00pm / 2:00pm-6:00pm
Tue-Fri: 9:00am-1:00pm / 2pm-05:45pm
Sat, Sun & Public Holiday: Closed

Address: 6/F, Southorn Centre, 130 Hennessy Road, Wanchai, Hong Kong (view on map)
Tel: 2834 6863
Fax: 2834 7627
Email: fc@isshk.org