Dear All
Development of Life Skills improves the employability of the people in general and more particularly for the Persons with Disabilities. A Paper on such subject has been published in the national Journal and the Abstract of the same is pasted below as:
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DEVELOPMENT OF LIFE SKILLS FOR THE EMPLOYABILITY OF PERSONS WITH
DISABILITIES – AN INCLUSION MODEL
ABSTRACT
The persons with disabilities (PWDs) are facing several limitations in
leading an independent life 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 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
(united) 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 contributing
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 paper presents the details of
the need, concept and process of rehabilitation and skill development of
persons with disabilities which works for improving their employability as an
inclusive strategy.
Keywords:
Rehabilitation, Employment, Access, Independent Living, Sustainability, Quality
of Life, Inclusion.
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Looking forward....
All the best.
