Profile
We are a non profit making welfare organisation established by a group of ex-mental patients in 1959 providing rehabilitation services for recovered mental patients and also the mentally handicapped.
Founder
Dr. Stella Liu
History
The New Life Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association was originally called the New Life Mutual Aid Club formed in 1959 and formally registered with the authorities in 1961. It was organised and run by a group of ex-mental patients, and was reorganised and changed its title in 1965. In 1968, the Association became incorporated under the Companies Ordinance. In 1969, it became an affiliated organisation of the World Federation for Mental Health and a member of the Council of Social Services and, in 1970, a member of the Community Chest of Hong Kong.
Aims and Objectives
To establish and carry on hostels, shetered workshops, farms, clubs or any projects on a non-profit making basis where ex-mental patients and the mentally retarded may obtain free of charge or on moderate terms temporary residential facilities, vocational training, sheltered employment, recreation or activities calculated directly or indirectly for their rehabilitation and betterment.
Services
We provide a comprehensive range of community psychiatric rehabilitation services catering for the residential, vocational and social needs of the Service Users. As at January 1997, the Association operated twenty-six units within Hong Kong.
Residental Services include eleven Halfway Houses, one Hostel, two Hostels for the Mentally Handicapped and two Long Stay Care Homes.
Vocational Services include five Industrial Workshops, an Agricultural Farm and a Supported Employment Service.
We have two Training and Activity Centres, an Aftercare Service and are involved in Public Education.
There is also the Jockey Club New Life Institute of Psychiatric Rehabilitation.