After years on the frontline, our Youth Crime Prevention Centre saw a gap: Just telling young people that drugs are dangerous won’t always work. Looking for new ways of intervention, research led them to the Meaning Centred Approach, a methodology developed by a Canadian psychologist to help those in hardship find hope, purpose and direction. In partnership with City University of Hong Kong and with funding from Beat Drugs Fund, the team created Project MAP in 2020, a locally adapted framework tailored for young people caught in cycles of addiction. Pioneering the approach, social workers dared to ask deep questions, […]