Work Placement/Vocational Skills Training

The consumers at the Work Center are engaged in various vocational projects and they are paid on a piece rate basis.  Here, actual work is simulated where regular working hours with time for coffee and noon breaks are observed like regular employees.  Aside from providing the mentally handicapped gainful employment, it also aims to develop good work habits among the consumers so that they would be suited for community reintegration.  Buffer groups or groups of normal workers are also employed not only to maintain flows of production but more so to help in the socialization of the Center’s consumers.  In addition to vocational projects, income- generating project such as food catering and managing a sari-sari store, provide the consumers extra income.

WC client receives his (salary) economic rewards/incentives for a job well-done.

Craft projects

Life Skills Training/Occupational Therapy

The WC consumers are trained to acquire skills in activities of daily living (ADL) for them to be contributing members of their family and community.  Activities in self-care, home and family management, and leisure form the bulk of the program.

"Gardening"

"Activities of Daily Living"

Play/Leisure activities

Psychosocial Services

This is primarily aimed at providing the consumers and their families care services thru individual or group counseling.  In addition, follow-up of active and inactive consumers through home visits and correspondence are undertaken.

Social activities are also held to provide opportunities for the consumers to interact with one another and with other members of the community.  TV and movie viewing, excursions, indoor and outdoor games, consumers’ meeting, dancing and singing are the usual activities of the Center for such purposes.  These activities also provide the consumers informal education on arts and sciences.

WC clients during a group session

Psychosocial Educational Program: topic - "Science"

Educational Field trip

 Psycho-educational Services

 The psycho-educational program process covers the biological, psychological, and social aspects of the human person.  Also known as SCORE, it has five identified areas of functionality to be nurtured, namely. S – social awareness, C – creativity, O – occupational skills, R –recreation and relaxation, and E – educational enrichment.

 Areas given emphasis are: Cognitive Development; Aesthetic and Motor Development with arts, music, sports and recreation, Character Education and Values Formation, Topics covering Nature and Science, History and Geography, Health Education and Current Events.

 It utilizes group and individualized teaching to accommodate high and low functioning consumers through an hour and a half thrice a week activity provided in an informal classroom session.  The teaching style used is highly interactive and experiential.  The program is structured in such a way that the family members, especially the parents are regularly involved.

 Expressive art activities and teacher-made medium are used as instructional guide.  Because of practicability and ingenuous implementation, psycho-education takes place in any location and at all points in the course of the consumer’s condition.  Selected staff members serve as teachers.

Performance rating of WC consumers during psychoeducation sessions

WC clients observe office time schedule on their attendance to vocational skills training and work placement at the center

Psychiatric Follow-up Services

To ensure proper medication routine, WC consumers are regularly scheduled for medical check-ups with psychiatrists.  This is implemented in coordination with the Clinical and Diagnostic services (CDS).

Consumer-Family Enrichment

Activities such as excursions and socialization promote closer and more harmonious relationship between the consumers and their families.  Quarterly parents’ meeting and seminar-workshops are also part of the program that aims to develop among family members, healthier ways of coping with their problems.

Parent Quarterly Meeting

Client Family Socialization

Training and Field Placement of Students

(Social Work and Occupational Therapy)

The RS Work Center provides a venue for training of social work and occupational therapy students who have special interest in working with the mentally handicapped.  The student-interns shall be trained and supervised by the staff concerned (Social Worker or the Occupational Therapist) in the following areas:  assessment and evaluation of clients, recording and documentation, preparation of treatment plan, reporting, conduct of individual and group activities, etc.