With a new look, the brand image has been further established with the new image of “Rehab Side by Side”, hoping to stay with every patient and family member, live a prosperous life, and build an inclusive society.

Invite the Department of Social Work of the Chinese University to conduct research on the development of self-help organizations and establish a model and best practice guide suitable for the development of self-help organizations in Hong Kong to help organizations develop sustainably.

Introducing the ICF classification system (International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health) established by the World Health Organization into stroke services to align with international rehabilitation concepts.

CRN promotes digital independent learning and established the “e2care” online information and learning platform with funding from the Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Foundation to enhance the health awareness of people of all ages and promote healthy lifestyles.

Receiving funding from the Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Foundation, we launched the community hospice care pilot project to improve the quality of life of terminally ill patients through cross-sector collaboration and community mobilization. In the same year, the second self-help organization handbook “Self-Help Organization Handbook – Philosophy and Practice No. 1” was published, providing a valuable reference for those interested in establishing and developing local patient self-help organizations.

The word “self-help organization” appears in the policy address, and the Chief Executive’s commitment to increase funding also demonstrates the value of the patient self-help movement in society.

Keeping up with the development of the times, we have launched Hong Kong’s first mutual help and self-learning platform for chronic diseases, which allows patients to manage their health anytime and anywhere through games, exercises, Q&A and records.

The “‘SMARTCare’ Carer Support Network Plan” was launched, using the “medical, welfare and social” collaboration model to provide carer services, and won multiple service awards. In the same year, the report on psychosocial support services for chronically ill patients and their families was published, summarizing CRN’s more than ten years of rich experience in providing social support services for chronically ill patients.

The Hospital Authority has launched a patient self-reliance program in seven districts in Hong Kong, and the Wo Che Centre of the Community Rehabilitation Network successfully launched this service based on self-management in New Territories East, and later also launched this service in many districts.

Published self-study manuals and books on various core services, including stroke, hypertension, diabetes and arthritis, etc., and promoted sustainable development by sharing relevant work experience, which has been widely welcomed by the industry.

Receiving funding from the Social Welfare Department, we launched the “Support and Expansion Project for Self-Help Organizations of Persons with Disabilities” to serve more different types of self-help organizations for people with disabilities, chronically ill patients and families.

Receiving funding from the Government Lotteries Fund, we established the Hong Kong Society for Rehabilitation Community Rehabilitation Network Tai Hing Centre, Wo Che Centre and Tai Ping Centre.

We are the first to introduce chronic disease self-management courses from Stanford University in the United States to train patients, carers, the social welfare and medical community to adopt evidence-based methods to establish independent healthy living habits. In the same year, we and patient self-help organizations fought for the government to launch the “Disabled Persons/Patient Self-Help Organizations Subsidy Scheme” to provide financial support for the organizations to hire staff to handle conference affairs, marking a new milestone in the mutual aid movement.

We worked with rheumatology patient self-help organizations to set up priority services for people with disabilities in public heated swimming pools to facilitate aquatic rehabilitation and promote community rehabilitation. In the same year, in order to promote the self-help movement, we established an independent team dedicated to supporting the development of patient self-help organizations and mutual help groups in Hong Kong, called the Patient Mutual Help Development Center.

CRN officially received regular funding from the Social Welfare Department. In the same year, we received funding from the Social Welfare Department to launch the third Community Rehabilitation Network – West Kowloon Office, now renamed the Lei Cheng Uk Centre.

The government officially recognized the role and functions of self-help organizations in the White Paper on Rehabilitation Policies and Services.

The Hong Kong Society for Rehabilitation has received support from the government and various stakeholders, as well as funding from the Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust, to officially launch the services of the Community Rehabilitation Network, and established the Hong Kong Island Office of the Community Rehabilitation Network, which has now moved to Quarry Bay and renamed as Kornhill Centre; and the Kowloon East District Office of the Community Rehabilitation Network, now known as Wang Tau Hom Centre, providing services to community chronically ill patients and patient self-help organizations.

The Hong Kong Society for Rehabilitation has petitioned the Health and Welfare Bureau to establish Community Rehabilitation Networks and central information service centers in five districts across Hong Kong to provide comprehensive support services for chronically ill patients and their families.