Community Counseling: Caring for Disadvantaged Children and Youths
We take part in assisting underprivileged groups actively, establish community volunteer teams, provide systematic volunteer training, and serve underprivileged children and juveniles in conjunction with government resources. For example, with respect to the school system, LITE-ON Cultural Foundation has provided training in family education, psychological counseling and other specialized training courses to community women or parents so that they can serve in the elementary and junior high schools in the community. The volunteers are serving at schools throughout Taipei City, New Taipei City and Taoyuan City. About 6,000 volunteers have received training in the most recent three years, and trainees have accumulated to over 50,000 persons. Meanwhile, the Foundation is also working with school counseling offices to provide concern, assistance and guidance for schoolchildren or juveniles facing trouble, including children from single-parent families, dysfunctional families, aboriginal families, new-resident families, and families with disabled children. Approximately 5,279 children and juveniles have received the assistance in the most recent years. For instance, a total of 935 children and juveniles have received the assistance, and assistance has been provided to a cumulative total of 13,000 persons in 2015, thereby fulfilling our commitment to be a caring neighbor.
Projects Completed in 2015
Other Projects in 2015
- Large seminars in collaboration with Living Psychology Publishers: The seminar, "Love and Freedom - Satir's Family Therapy Model", was attended by more than 800 people.
- Community Assistance Biweekly Newsletter: The Foundation publishes the biweekly newsletter to share its work and education efforts to a broader audience (including NPOs). The newsletter shows real accomplishments of family education projects and family life to cultivate even better relations and quality of life. A total of 17 biweekly newsletters were issued in 2015, making it an important means through which the Foundation discloses relevant information and contacts its Community Assistance.
- Innovative parental courses: The course goals are to help parents understand their children and build knowledge and skills in learning with their children, thereby encouraging self-development in parents and the desire to help others in similar situations. The courses developed in 2015 are "Food, Morality, Family, and Helping Others" and "Using Storybooks to Build A Better Family and Help Others".
- Scholarship and donation platform for disadvantaged students: A Community Assistance Scholarship Policy has been established to provide financial aid for financially disadvantaged junior high school and elementary school students. A total of 39 students have benefited from the program.
2016-2017 Work Plans
- To continue to operate the scholarship and donation platform for disadvantaged students and to implement this platform throughout its entire organization.
- To organize Summer Camp for Children of LITE-ON Employees.
- To rebuild the Community Assistance Oversight System and the trainee instructor training program, and to implement LITE-ON's Community Assistance Model in new communities in New Taipei City or schools in remote areas.
- To revamp and redesign the website in order to provide a knowledge platform for schools and members of the public in need of family or parenting education and services for the disadvantaged.
- To support remote children counseling support in New Taipei City.
- To reinforce community assistance training courses and the 32-course structure and to try to publish books in collaboration with publishers.
*The community counseling projects in 2015 are disclosed on the LITE-ON Cultural Foundation's website: http://www.liteoncf.org.tw/news.php?id=472 (Chinese only)
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