The Student Affairs Office, Peer Mentor Scheme launched in the academic year of 2015-16 academic year to promote caring atmosphere in the campus.

The theme “ABYS (Always By Your Side)” is designed for 2017-18 academic year to foster a positive and caring atmosphere on the HSUHK campus, promote help-seeking behavior when having emotional distress or feeling suicidal, and lower the stigma associated with mental health difficulties by receiving available social and professional support. The project also aims to train a group of Peer Mentors who are able to identify and assist students with social adjustment and psychological needs, and make referral to professional when necessary.

Senior Peer Mentors who served as Peer Mentors last year will act as the key organizers in this project under the professional advice by counselors and staff from Student Affairs Office. Senior Peer Mentors will also support the training of Peer Mentors and initiate caring activities in campus to achieve the project objectives.

Coached by Counsellors of Personal Growth & Counseling, Peer Mentors will attend a series of systematic training to facilitate participant’s peer helping skills, and will organize Student Initiated Programs to help students better understand themselves and facilitate the process of Peer Mentors to identify the students with emotional or mental needs for referral to professionals. Peer Mentors will also be awarded with a certificate of participation for contributing and taking part in the trainings and events held by the program through Peer Mentors Recognition Ceremony in the end of the project.

Starting from 2013/14, HSUHK partners with the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) and participates in the ICAC Ambassador Programme (廉政大使計劃) to enhance students’ awareness on anti-corruption and maintain high level of personal integrity.

The programme provides students the opportunities to understand the mission of ICAC, explore the issues about integrity and commitment, and enhance their capabilities by conducting collaborative promotional activities. Students will demonstrate their knowledge gained from this programme in organising various activities related to anti-corruption and integrity.  ICAC Ambassadors can also grasp at the chance to join the ICAC Voluntary Summer Helper Programme and meet with new friends from other institutions.

WLN aims to promote the idea of “Responsible Citizenship” and build a harmonious and caring society. Students from different tertiary institutions will participate in, organize and promote a wide range of activities, in order to enhance all-round skills, self-equip proactively, acquire social service experiences as well as to increase a sense of belonging to the nation.

WLN develops the students in three dimensions: leadership training, civic education and social servicing.

Vision

• To nurture future leaders, promote the idea of “Responsible Citizenship”, and build a harmonious and caring society.

Mission

• To enhance all-round development for youth and nurture future leaders through extensive training activities and exchange opportunities.
• To promote the mission of “responsible citizenship”.

What are the Student Benefits?

• To widen the horizons by being in contact with business leaders, professionals and students from other institutions or overseas.
• To have the sharing from mentors with different professional background.
• To learn from various programmes & projects, and perform community services.
• To learn to become a youth leader and responsible citizen in the society.
• To learn to be a leader, and serve as a leader by joining different kinds of leadership training.
• To enlarge social network by joining cross-institutional activities.