Launch Ceremony and Symposium for the Positive Education and Mental Health Promotion Ambassador Programme

 

City University of Hong Kong’s (CityUHK) Positive Education Laboratory will join hands with The WEMP Foundation to hold the Launch Ceremony and Symposium for the Positive Education and Mental Health Promotion Ambassador Programme on 29 June 2024 (Saturday). 

The Positive Education Laboratory, together with the WEMP Foundation, will organise various courses and activities for principals, teachers, social workers and others from 2024 to 2026, with the aim of promoting positive education in schools and communities and improving the well-being and mental health of students. 

Presiding over the Launch Ceremony are Mr Lester Garson Huang, SBS, JP, CityUHK Council Chairman and Advisor of The WEMP Foundation; Professor Freddy Boey, CityUHK President; Mrs Jennifer Yu Cheng Ngar-wing, Director of The WEMP Foundation, and Group President & Deputy Vice Chairwoman of CTF Education Group; and Dr the Honourable Ko Wing-man, GBS, JP, Advisory Committee Member of The WEMP Foundation. 

At the Symposium, Professor Sylvia Kwok Lai Yuk-ching, from the Department of Social and Behavioural Sciences, will share the results of a mental health survey conducted among local primary and secondary school students, teachers and parents over the past three years.

You are warmly invited to cover the following event:

Event: Launch Ceremony and Symposium for the Positive Education and Mental Health Promotion Ambassador Programme
Date: 29 June 2024 (Saturday)
Venue: Joseph Lee Hall (LT-3505), 3/F, Li Dak Sum Yip Yio Chin Academic Building, CityUHK

Time

Programme

11:00 am

Media Registration
(*Interested Media representatives are advised to register with CIRO CityUHK before 28 June)

11:30 am

Ceremony begins:

  •  Opening Remarks by Mr Lester Garson Huang, SBS, JP, CityUHK Council Chairman and Advisor of The WEMP Foundation

  • Welcome Remarks by Mrs Jennifer Yu Cheng Ngar-wing, Director of The WEMP Foundation and Group President & Deputy Vice Chairwoman of CTF Education Group

  • Speech by Professor Freddy Boey, CityUHK President; and Dr the Honourable Ko Wing-man, GBS, JP, Advisory Committee Member of The WEMP Foundation

12:00 – 01:15 pm

End of Ceremony and beginning of the Symposium

  • Positive Education and Mental Health Research Findings, by Professor Sylvia Kwok Lai Yuk-ching

  •  Children's Mental Health Seminar, by Dr Charles Yu Tak-shun, Founder and Director of Charles Yu Training Co. Ltd.

  • Introduction of the Positive Education and Mental Health Promotion Ambassador Programme, by Mr Remus Kwok Kai-chun, Service Supervisor of the Positive Education Laboratory


Media enquiries: Julian Ng, Communications and Institutional Research Office, CityUHK (Tel: 3442 2569 or 9271 9769)

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