10th Anniversary Outstanding Partnership Award (Corporate)

In recognition of excellence in promoting social capital, through the effective use of expertise and network advantages of individuals/ enterprises, and play a key role in achieving social capital outcomes.
• Community network — To develop mutual trust and long-term relationship with people in different business sectors and of different backgrounds, and strengthen the social networking.
• Mutual-help and Reciprocity — To make good use of one’s advantages; devote resources to enhancing community capacity and creating opportunities for development.
• Trust and Solidarity — To achieve synergy by fostering cross-sectoral partnership.
• Social Cohesion and Inclusion — To promote social harmony and build social capital culture.
• Social Participation — To mobilise participation in response to community needs, enhance community capacity.
• Information and Communication — To establish an effective communication platform to facilitate information flow.

Critical Success Factor

With great support from the hospital, the project has been the first one to apply the medical-welfare-community collaboration model. The hospital has not only arranged community nurses and hospital volunteers to participate in the project, but also attended meetings regularly with the project to give valuable advice in organising, implementing and reviewing the project. For many years, the hospital has all along been maintaining close co-operation with the project agency and adopting the "one estate one nurse" intervention model in four more CIIF projects covering six public estates in Kwai Tsing district. Making use of medical records in the hospital, the community nurses have been able to provide accurate health assessment and proper medical advice for elderly residents. It is found that the project has not only helped reduce medical cost effectively, but also demonstrated the valuable experience of promoting primary medical care and ageing in place.