Our purpose in this study is to describe the circumstances and views of 16 individuals 8 years after their participation in one agency's conversion from a sheltered workshop to an exclusively community employment service. Individual interviews were conducted to examine participants' present employment circumstances and their perspectives on the agency changes and on their current life situation...

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BACKGROUND Genesee County Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health Program (REACH) is a Community-Based Public Health partnership for reducing African American infant mortality rates that hosts the Undoing Racism Workshop (URW). OBJECTIVES Assess the URW's effectiveness in promoting an understanding of racism, institutional racism, and how issues related to race/ethnicity can affect m...

SEVEN miles from Aberdeen, on the lovely road to Braemar, lies the Newton Dee Estate, recognised by the Ministry of Labour as a sheltered workshop for the mentally handicapped. There is a fundamental difference between it and most other "sheltered workshops," for it is a social experiment, and all who are there not only share the working life, but live together as a really integrated village co...

This study investigated whether sheltered workshops help prepare individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) for competitive employment within the community. Two groups of individuals were compared: (a) 215 supported employees who were in sheltered workshops prior to entering supported employment and (b) 215 supported employees who were not in sheltered workshops. Individuals from both grou...

as alterations to the patient's home. While medical rehabilitation is primarily the responsibility of the hospital team, many other people may be involved-in particular, the patient's general practitioner and the staff of voluntary organizations, local authorities, and Ministry of Health limb-fitting and appliance centres. The object of industrial rehabilitation is to find jobs for disabled wor...