Funded by The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust, the Jockey Club “Moments Not Wasted” Youth Education Programme (the Programme) is a city-wide youth alcohol education and intervention service for 2021 to 2024. The Programme is the first multi-level alcohol prevention and harm reduction programme that primarily targets adolescents and young adults in Hong Kong. The Programme aims to prevent alcohol consumption, reduce related harms and build a healthy and supportive community for youth in the long run.

Programme objectives:

• Increase young people’s knowledge around alcohol 
• Reduce the overall frequency of alcohol consumption among youth
• Increase skills to resist peer pressure

The Programme consists of the following elements:

• OurFutures Web-based Alcohol Education Course
  •  A comic-based self-learning activity, followed by a 1-hour debriefing session conducted by our trained staff
• Peer Facilitator Training
  • A peer support training initiative that prepares selected students to be leaders in engaging their peers on alcohol-related topics, including KELY-led campaigns or outreaches. 
• Parents and teachers seminar
  • Information sessions and workshops to provide update tips for discussing alcohol with teens
    
• Alcohol First Aid Training
  • A 3-hour certificate training programme in Alcohol Awareness & Harm Reduction Skills

This programme has concluded on 30 September 2024.