Mindset

Reintegration

Goal and Objectives

Through MINDSET, we are able to express care and concern for people with or recovering from mental illness and service users also appreciate that they are being looked after — by the community and by Jardines. With patient support activities and Job Training Programmes, MINDSET aims to enhance the public’s understanding and promote their acceptance of people with mental illness.

MINDSET Place

MINDSET has established its first long-stay care home in Hong Kong for people recovering from the effects of chronic mental illness.

Operated by New Life Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association, MINDSET Place will offer a professional level of care and support for service users with chronic conditions in a home-like environment to facilitate their reintegration into the community.

With the high standard of services provided at MINDSET Place, it is hoped that the residents will develop a stable pattern of life and be trained on social and communication skills so that they can be ready for life in the community again in future.

Job Training Programme

The Job Training Programme aims to provide training opportunities within the Group to rehabilitated individuals to help them reintegrate into society. Group companies offer to service users training opportunities or contract term employment ranging from a few weeks to one year.

Since the launch of the programme in early 2005, with the help of our partnering NGOs, the programme has benefited over 811 rehabilitated individuals. On the average, about half of them were able to rejoin the workforce after taking up these training opportunities.

To encourage the hiring of more rehabilitated people throughout the Group, the Jardine Ambassadors organize workshops inviting mental health professionals to explain to Jardines managers about how to work with the rehabilitated.

Patient Support Activities

The Jardine Ambassadors partner with two specialist hospitals and other mental health organizations to organize patient support activities such as visits to IKEA, Pizza Hut, and donations of mooncakes and news magazines.