SIE Box Breakers​

Project Objectives:

The venture uses Thai-boxing as an effective psychotherapy to help alleviate social isolation experienced by youngsters suffering from mental illness (MI) and underprivileged youths (U-youths).

Besides, this venture facilitates role transformation for U-youths to serve the community and people in needs, increasing their self-esteem and enhancing social capital.

• Enhance youngsters with MI‘s’ self-esteem and self-confidence, thereby helping to strengthen social inclusion.
• Improve participants' physical health and mental well-being
• Increase MIs' Heart Rate Variability (HRV),raise their ability to manage stress
• Help the distressed youths to have their own coaching business ,which can alleviate poverty and promote social mobility
• Provide U-youths with job opportunities and career development

This venture helps the youths from 4 aspects：

• Provide a platform for youngsters with MI to interact with the coaches and enhance their sense of self-identity
• Improve physical health and mental well-being via different Thai-boxing styles based on the symptoms and needs of individual participants
• Provide U-youths with mental health first aid training course, teach them how to interact with youngsters with MI and increase their competitiveness
• Hire U-youths as part-time coach assistants, develop career skills

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Benefited Youths

3

Job Opportunities

960

Teaching Hours