Integrated Vocational Rehabilitation Services Centre
Service Description
It provide persons with disabilities with one-stop integrated and seamless vocational rehabilitation services specially designed to accommodate their limitations, in which they can be provided with work training, develop their social and economic potential, achieve upward mobility in vocational rehabilitation, and be prepared for potential advancement to open employment.
Eligibility for the Service
Persons with disabilities who are aged 15 or above in need of vocational training or support to take up open employment.
Service Contents
- Vocational skills training comprises centre-based training such as simple processing, assembling and packaging, desk-top publishing and laundry service, and outdoor work training such as car-washing, office cleaning, delivery services, retailing and leaflet distribution;
- Job finding and matching, coaching and follow-through support;
- On the job training includes job attachment, job trial and post-placement services;
- Retraining and other vocational training services; and
- Allowance-generating work skills training (training allowance is in general calculated according to the kind of job training and the trainees' participation).
*Note: There is no employer-employee relationship between the service units and the trainees
Application Procedures
- Referrals can be made by school social workers, medical social workers, family caseworkers and staff of rehabilitation service units to the Central Referral System for Rehabilitation Services of the SWD;
- Referrers or applicants can also approach the service units for direct application;
- The application is free of charge.
Fees and Charges
Free.