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About the Course

 

Do you aspire to:

  • Bring out Hong Kong’s community strengths to address challenges
  • Put people at the center of addressing health concerns
  • Widen your network of peers and colleagues working on community health
  • Address basic determinants of health and health disparities in Hong Kong

 

This Workshop is for you

Through Support, Appreciate, Learn/Listen, Transfer (SALT) and Community Life Competence Process (CLCP) members of the Constellation have transformed communities around the world.  SALT-CLCP helps bring out community-created solutions for healthy aging, healthy workplaces, HIV/AIDS, refugees, etc. Marlou de Rouw, co-founder of the Constellation, will be offering this workshop in Hong Kong in conjunction with faculty from the University of Hong Kong and Mahidol University.

Instructors: Dr Tan, Day Seng Nason, Ms Marlou de Rouw, Dr Rapeepun Jommaroeng

Date: November 4-7, 2024 (Monday to Thursday)

Time: 09:00 - 17:30

Venue: Southmark (Tower A, 28th Floor, 11 Yip Hing Street, Wong Chuk Hang)

Format: In-person only

 

Course Rundown

 

Morning Session
(09:00 - 12:30)

Afternoon Session
(14:00 - 17:30)

Nov 4 (Mon)

Overview of SALT

Applications

Nov 5 (Tue)

Overview of CLCP

Applications to Hong Kong

Nov 6 (Wed)

Knowledge Transfer

Partnerships

Nov 7 (Thu)

Evaluation

Wrap Up

The workshop is free of charge. Welcome to join!

 

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Become a change maker

Build connections in your neighbourhood, help people take ownership of the measures they take to stay healthy, support older persons in aging with dignity, create a safe, healthy and happy workspace, and create your green school. The SALT and CLCP approach is bringing joy to thousands of facilitators in their task of creating local action that contributes to better life conditions.

 

During the workshop, participants:

  • Experience an appreciative way of working with communities and groups, who take action to improve their own health situation.
  • Gain experience in facilitating a concrete learning cycle that takes groups step by step through a process that builds up ownership and improved action towards the health issue of their concern.

 

Learn applications to Hong Kong

  • Enter a network of professionals and community champions in Hong Kong, who strive for better (access to) health.
  • Access a global community of SALT-CLCP champions through an E-platform.
  • Develop a concrete action plan for do-able changes in their own way of working that contribute to community health.
  • Learn about an innovative process for measuring progress.

 

About instructors:

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Dr Tan, Day Seng Nason

Dr Nason Tan graduated from Kasturba Medical College, Manipal, India in 1998 and was attached with the Ministry of Health for more than 12 years serving as a government doctor in rural and urban areas of Malaysia. Following that, he went on for the next 11 years to be involved in humanitarian work around the globe which found him serving in Ethiopia, Sierra Leone, India, Nepal, Cambodia, Malaysia, and Borneo. He has managed emergency malnutrition crisis; epidemic outbreaks of Lassa Fever and Cholera; severe malaria; and the syndemic of substance misuse, Hepatitis C, and HIV among the MSM community.

 

 

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Ms Marlou de Rouw

Marlou is co-founder of the international NGO the Constellation. She is experiencing in her daily work how trust can be the basis of working relationships when we know and have expressed our shared dream. Marlou both has 18 years experience in facilitating community-owned responses to a variety of issues (such as HIV/AIDS/Ageing/Workplace/Living together/Refugees) and in a variety of places in the world (ranging from Europe, Asia and Africa).

 

 

SALT - Dr Rapeepun Jommaroeng

Dr Rapeepun Jommaroeng

Dr. Rapeepun Jommaroeng has obtained a PhD in demography from Mahidol University Institute for Population and Social Research and is currenting doing another doctoral degree in Public Administration (Public Policy) at National Institute of Development Administration Graduate School of Public Administration. Rapeepun worked at UNESCO Asia Pacific Regional Bureau for Education during 2008 - 2011 and at the Thai Red Cross AIDS Research Centre during 2002 - 2008. His areas of expertise include HIV and human rights programming as well as program monitoring and evaluation.

 

Registration

Please register here by October 31, 2024 (Thursday) at 6pm.

A confirmation email will be sent to successful registrants.

 

Enquiry

For enquiries, please email saltclcp@hku.hk.

To learn more about SALT-CLCP, please visit www.the-constellation.org.

 

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