SHELTERED WORKSHOP FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES AND OLDER PERSONS

The Sheltered Workshop for Persons with Disability and Older Persons is a community-based facility designed to provide training and productive employment for PWDs and OPs to enhance their capacity to attain a more meaningful,
productive and satisfying way of life and ultimately become self-reliant, productive, and contributing members of society.

This program is currently piloted in the NCR area, specifically in the Municipality of Asingan, Pangasinan.

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OBJECTIVES

The program aims to:

  1. Provide capability-building activities for PWDs and OPs.
  2. Provide employment for PWDs and OPs who can function in a controlled environment.
  3. Advocate for community support for PWDs and OPs, especially persons with developmental disability.
  4. Provide opportunities to parents, siblings, and community members to actively participate in the rehabilitation of persons with disability and older persons, whichever is applicable.
  5. Strengthen the expertise of staff/ workers in operationalizing sheltered workshops specifically designed to meet the needs of persons with disability and older persons.
  6. Provide Older persons the opportunity to continue working and contributing to society while enjoying a reasonable quality of life.
  7. Increase community awareness on issues that affect both the PWDs and OPs
  8. Lessen, if not to curb, the prevalence of mendicancy

COMPONENTS

  • Capability Building
    Strengthening/ harnessing knowledge, attitudes, and skills of the community leaders and the project staff involved to enable them to understand how to care for and handle persons with disabilities
  • Vocational Training
    This involves training project workers by MDO or MDA or equivalent staff in a particular trade, arts and crafts. This training also enables them to acquire skills, enhance self-esteem and chance of employment, and ultimately become productive
  • Social Skills Training
    Training of PWDs and OPs along with social skills to prepare them for integration into the community. These include personal hygiene, self-care, health and security, communications, travels and working with others, understanding of work preparations, and management of savings
  • Education of parents, sibling,s and interested community members
    Provide opportunities to parents, sibling,s and community leaders to be oriented/ trained on the subject of PWDs and OPs and their care and management, especially for person with developmental disability