Dear All
I am posting the abstract of the paper which i8s going to be presented at the International Conference on Life Skills Education to be organized by RGNIYD, Sriperumbudur, TN during 8-10th Dec. 2010.
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N Lakshmi Narayana, Director
GEO REHAB CENTRE
Geohouse, #2-3-173, Road No: 2, Adarsha Nagar, Nagole,
Hyderabad. AP. India. E-mail: grcnln@gmail.com
ABSTRACT
Keywords: Rehabilitation, Training, Employment, Access, Barrier Free Environment, Independent Living, Corporate Social Responsibility, Stakeholders, Sustainability, Quality of Life, Employability, Inclusion, Resource Centre, Placement Cell.
The persons with disabilities (PWDs) are facing several limitations in leading an independent living in the community as environment creates barriers at all levels. In addition, the process of liberalization, privatization and globalization (LPG) and its consequences lead for their poor access as poverty, disability and development are the cause and consequence of each other. Under these circumstances, PWDs have got limited opportunities for self help, decision making, education, employment and to be part of the family / community / development.
The government, industries, corporate, service providers, funding agencies and other stakeholders are extending matching services to the persons with disabilities and thus making them to lead better living in an inclusive and barrier free environment. United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) has brought the paradigm shift in the whole process of rehabilitation of the persons with disabilities from medial to socio-development to human resource model with right based strategies. In view of this, development of life skills of the persons with disabilities gains importance to improve their social, thinking and emotional skills and thus to improve their employable skills and finally to access better employment opportunities matching to their skills and needs in barrier free environment.
The spectrum of training and rehabilitation of the persons with disabilities starts from the stage of identification to empowerment and thus for their inclusion both socially and economically. In this process, the Industries and Corporate under their Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) supports persons with disabilities both for rehabilitation and to provide gainful employment with disabled friendly environment. The concept of Resource Centre cum Placement Cell (RCPC) is the working model between the Industries / Corporate and the services providers / non governmental organizations (NGOs) for providing rehabilitation to employment to persons with disabilities as an inclusive approach at all levels. The RCPC works with an integrated approach including registration, assessment, guidance, capacity building, orientation, placement, monitoring & evaluation with full participation with right based approaches.
The RCPC model with several functional compartments has been established between the Industry and NGO working for the persons with disabilities in parts of Andhra Pradesh and provided gainful employment for 202 persons with disabilities in various categories. In addition, RCPC provides platform for reemployment and other social issues and thus make them part of the community as a productive member with better sustainability and quality of life (QOL). This positive impact of the industry has been recognized by the government with matching awards and thus motivated others to adopt the model in empowering the target groups.
The RCPC model has got the acceptance from the stakeholders as it is flexible suiting to the needs and demands of the industry, service providers and persons with disabilities. To conclude, the skill development through the RCPC has resulted for gainful employment for the persons with disabilities and thus made them as part of the community in an inclusive and barrier free environment with better sustainability and quality of life. The paper presents the details of the need, concept and process of rehabilitation and skill development of the persons with disabilities which works for improving their employability as an inclusive strategy.
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Looking forward for your reflections and better networking.....
with thanks
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