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Education Programme 2008 - 2009

The Community Drug Advisory Council (CDAC) is a bilingual charitable organization that was established in 1984. It was formed by a group of parents and volunteer professionals, who all shared a common concern ¡V teenager drug abuse in Hong Kong. Having over twenty years¡¦ experience and efforts in the drug education field, CDAC remains dedicated to continuing our founders¡¦ work, raising community awareness about drug misuse in Hong Kong. We are currently conducting a programme targeting teenagers, addressing issues related to Drugs (legal or illegal), Smoking, Alcohol and Healthy Lifestyle Alternatives. All our programs are interactive and tailor-made to ensure flexibility around different age groups, needs and backgrounds of the teenagers while integrating them fully into the existing school curriculum. We are also offering training workshops for teachers and parents, which will provide them with knowledge of current drug issues; teaching and parenting skills; locally relevant community resources as well as referral options. It is important that we encourage teenagers to have a positive attitude towards body image, raise their knowledge of drugs, increase repertoire of skills to deal with societal pressure and educate them to live a healthy lifestyle. If you would like to know more about our programs or would like us to visit your school, please do not hesitate to contact us at 2521 2880 or cdac@netvigator.com.


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Wise Giving


CDAC has being a part in the WiseGiving network from May 2008. For further information of CDAC, you may click the hyperlink below for our organization accountability.


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Bilingual newsletter to parents

With the support of The Matilda Sedan Chair Race Charities Fund, a bilingual newsletter in English and Nepalese was published, contents include ¡§Teens today¡¨, Parental's Tips¡¨ and ¡§Drug Quiz¡¨. Please click the hyper link to download the PDF version.

Newsletter 1

Newsletter 2


The Matilda Sedan Chair Race Charities Fund

Thanks to Matilda CDAC now has the opportunity to expand the International service by providing Drug education to non-Chinese speaking students, from South-East Asian countries, using English as a medium of communication. By enhancing their knowledge about drugs and drug issues in Hong Kong, CDAC is working to help the students become aware of their own attitudes towards drugs and prevent them from using drugs while enabling them to make well-informed choices. We have also begun consulting the parents of these students, gathering opinions and learning to understand the needs of their children and the community as a whole. This in turn will help to facilitate the production of informative leaflets/bulletins/newsletters, in different languages.

At this early stage we have already received a lot of positive feedback and we look forward to working with the teachers, parents and students this semester.



QEF - Quality Education Fund - 'Drug Diet'

Another warm thank you to QEF who have helped CDAC facilitate a fresh new programme for female students in both the Local and International service.

Hong Kong in particular is a place where dieting and beauty is of great importance and today more young females are getting involved in drugs to help their appearance and slim their bodies. By running a programme for students in schools that creates awareness about the consequences of using illegal drugs and slimming aids as a way to lose weight, we believe we can promote a positive body image and encourage and train the students how to live a healthy life-style.

However, successful drug education programmes must involve the teaching staff, therefore CDAC aims to increase the confidence of the teachers by providing them with knowledge of current drug issues and up-to-date and locally relative teaching resources so as to involve them as a vehicle to initiate this project and apply this knowledge to the regular school syllabus.


If you would like more information, please feel free to contact us on 2521 2936.