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1st Step Association Limited vs "F. O. C. U. S." (Focus On Children's Understanding In School)

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Key details

Effective date
09/12/2007
06/09/1998
Charity number
91/5935
91/5178

About

Description
1st Step Association is a non-profit organization founded in 1999 by a group of social workers, doctors, lawyers, university tutors and members of the physically disabled communities. Our Association aims at providing extensive services and care to those with serious physical disabilities, which resulted from work injury or other accidents, and their families. The support services we provide include: case work, recovery guidance, law consultation and consultation on employee rights. Our association aims at empowering service users and their family through establishing support groups, where members may assist each other and in turn, assist themselves. Our Service Direction Our Association provides services to persons physically disabled due to work injury or other accidents through a “family-centric" way. We provide extensive assistance to members and their families as a unit in order to let them adapt to their new situation together.
For over 25 years FOCUS has been a trusted resource for Hong Kong parents, educators and medical professionals seeking to learn how to better support the academic and social lives of children with mainstream learning differences. FOCUS aims to improve educational and life outcomes of children with AD/HD and SpLD by expanding understanding and raising awareness of what it means to have a mind that learns differently Our mission is is to improve the education of mainstream students who are challenged by Specific Learning Difficulties (SpLD) and Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (AD/HD) by providing accurate evidence-based information, practical strategies and support to parents and professionals in education and healthcare and by improving understanding of how learning differences impact youth both emotionally and academically.

Contact

Address
Ground Floor, No. 58-61, Kai Yue House, Kai Yip Estate, Kowloon
Rm 617, 6/F, One Island South, 2 Heung Yip Rd, Wong Chuk Hang, HK

Status

Subvented
No
No
Subsidiary
No
No

Categories

Target beneficiaries

Governance & transparency

Annual report on website
No
No
Financial audits on website
No
No
Board of directors on website
No
Yes

Sustainable Development Goals

SDGs
SDG3
SDG4: Quality Education

Social links

Documents & video

Legal documents (audit)
Annual / impact report
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Video intro

Organisation structure

Structure
Company limited by guarantee under the Companies Ordinance

Disclaimer

Information is based on publicly available data and may not reflect recent changes.

This comparison is not a legal or professional audit.