Lisa Mok has been working in the Wai Yin Chinese Women Society for about 9 years and is currently working as Assistant Director of the organization. In 1990, she completed her Degree in Nursing in Australia and her major subject was in Community Nursing. Lisa came to the UK 15 years ago and completed her Master Degree in Education on Primary Health Care at the University of Manchester. Believing in continuous improvement and life long learning, she is currently studying on a part-time Social Work degree course at the University of Salford. At present, Lisa is a member of the Greater Manchester CPS Scrutiny Panel; a Steering Group member of the Legal Advice Steering Group formed by the University of Manchester, School of Law; and a member of the Fawcett Society Advisory Group.
Lisa had worked in an organization in Manchester 8 years ago and had developed Chinese Older People Care services. Lisa is now a senior manager and a community worker with over 8 years of valuable experience in community/voluntary sectors which provide social care for the Chinese community and other BME groups. Lisa is now overseeing the Health & Social Care Unit, as well as the Adult Learning & Employment Unit of the Wai Yin Chinese Women Society.
Committing to quality management, Lisa has led the Wai Yin Chinese Women Society to achieve Investor in people quality mark since 2002, and achieved Matrix quality mark in August 2008.
Lisa was the lead person in Wai Yin and to work with 3 partners when the Wai Yin Chinese Women Society has won the 5 contracts from LSC and JCP in 2006 to 2008. The 3 delivery partners included the Inspired Sisters in Manchester, KYP in Rochdale, and Business Bolton in Bolton. These contracts have successful achieved its targets. When Ofsted inspected the Progress Employability Contract, Lisa Mok was the key person to ensure the quality standard is high and the result of the inspection was Grade 2 (Good). Lisa is also the line manager of the Women Construction Solution Project which has won 2 ESF awards in June 2008.
In line with Wai Yin’s ethos, Lisa believes in race equality and feels very strongly when she comes across with racial discrimination. In partnership with Manchester Council for Community Relation, Lisa has conducted a brief survey on Hate Crime issues in Chinese community in Manchester in 2003. The Min Quan Project of The Monitoring Group worked with Lisa closely few years ago and had located one of the Development Workers in the Wai Yin as this will be easier to engage Chinese community. Lisa is also hoping to see more services available to tackle hate crime problems existing in the society.
Lisa has strong passion for providing services to support asylum seekers and refugees. In the daily work of Wai Yin, the staffs come across of Chinese Asylum Seekers and provide different kinds of support to them every day. The Wai Yin has obtained funding from Oxfam last year and have started a project to provide befriending services as well as English class to Chinese Asylum Seekers. In partnership with Barnado, Lisa has worked with them to set up services to support trafficked children in the UK.