ILO/OTA/Philippines/R.6
CONFIDENTIAL
INTERNATIONAL LABOUR OFFICE
Regular Programme of Technical Assistance
REPORT
TO
THE GOVERNMENT OF THE PHILIPPINES
ON
THE VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION" .
OF THE DISABLED
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CONTENTS
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INTRODUCTION
1
.THE EXTENT .OF DISABILITY
3
TECHNICAL BACKGROUND
4
A.
Social ¥/elfare Administration,
Office of Vocational Rehabilitation
4
1.
2.
Historical
Situation on Arrival
4
5
National Orthopaedic Hospital
8
C. Bureau of Workmen»s Compensation
9
B.
'THE WORK OE THE MISSION
A.
Office of Vocational Rehabilitation,
Barranca Centre
1.
2;
3.
4.
5:
6;.
7.
8;
9i
10;
11;
12;
13.
B.
C.
D.
E.
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Approach to the Problem
Intake Procedure
Rehabilitation Team ....;.........
Social Services
Re-evaluation Team
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Vocational Training•Section
Medical Services
Placement Service
Eollow-up
Sheltered Workshop
Dormitory Accommodation
Over-all Supervision and Control
Rehabilitation Officers in the
Provinces
14. Regional Vocational Rehabilitation
Centres
National Orthopaedic Hospital
Bureau of Y/orkmen's Compensation
Department of Labour
National Council on Rehabilitation
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V.
VI.
EVALUATION OP THE WORK
26
RECOMMENDATIONS
28
A.
Social Welfare Administration
28
B.
National Orthopaedic Hospital
. 30
C.
Bureau of Workmen's Compensation
30
D.
Department of Labour
30
E.
National Council on Rehabilitation
31
F.
Further International Assistance
31
APPENDICES
APPENDIX 1 - Departments, Agencies and Offiees in
Manila
32
APPENDIX 2 - List of Cities and Towns Visited
33
APPENDIX 3 - Republic Act No. 1179
34
APPENDIX 4 - Office of Vocational Rehabilitation Caseload Statistics for Fiscal Years
1954-1960
43
APPENDIX 5 - Application Forms; Office of Vocational
Rehabilitation, Barranca Centre
45
APPENDIX 6 - Extract from the Government Survey and
Reorganisation Committee's Plan No. 50
54
APPENDIX 7 - Organisation of the Office of
Vocational Rehabilitation
59
APPENDIX 8 - Organisation of the Pilot Rehabilitation and Training Centre, Barranca
60
APPENDIX 9 - Functions of the Pilot Rehabilitation
and Training Centre, Barranca
61
APPENDIX 10- Republic Act No. 2615
68
APPENDIX 11- Functions and Organisation of Regional
Adjustment and Training Centres
74
APPENDIX 12- Draft Job Description for I.L.O. Expert
83
I.
INTRODUCTION
1.
In 1956 Dr. Henry H. Kessler visited the Philippines
•under the auspices of the United Nations Technical Assistance
Administration to review existing rehabilitation facilities and
to make certain recommendations for the future development of
services for the disabled.
His reportl included recommendations
for the expansion of the existing services provided by the Social
Welfare Administration and the National Orthopaedic Hospital, and
for the strengthening of the Bureau of Workmen's Compensation.
There was also a recommendation that the Government of the
Philippines should approach the I.L.O. for advice and counsel on
the vocational rehabilitation aspects of the whole programme..
As a result the Government of the Philippines requested the
I.L.O. to provide the services of an expert.
2.
The Director-General of. the I.L.O. nominated
Mr. Leif Nylen of the Norwegian Directorate of Labour to undertake
the assignment under the I.L.O. regular programme of technical
assistance.
Mr. Nylen arrived in Manila in December 1958,
initially for a period of 12 months; but this mission was
extended at the request of the Government and he remained until
December 1960.
The last two months of his mission were fully
taken up with his participation as an expert, lecturer and
associate director at the I.L.O. Asian Regional Seminar on
Vocational Rehabilitation which was held in Manila in November
19602, so, virtually, his work on this technical assistance
assignment was completed in October 1960.
3.
The expert's terms of reference, which were finally
settled after special consultation with the Government just
before he arrived in Manila, were as follows'
(i) to advise the Government of the Philippines on its
rehabilitation programmes and the agencies implementing
such programmes, including the Social Welfare
Administration, the National Orthopaedic Hospital,
the Bureau of Workmen's Compensation in the Department
of Labour and the proposed National Council on
Rehabilitation; the fields of such advice will
include vocational guidance and vocational training
and placement;
The Rehabilitation of the Handicapped in the Philippines,
prepared for the Government of the Philippines by
Dr. Henry H. Kessler, appointed by the U.N.T.A.A. (Report
No. TAA/PHl/3, 27 December 1957, U.N. New York).
2
I.L.O. Expanded Programme of Technical Assistance, Report
to Participating Governments on the I.L.O. Asian Regional
Seminar on Vocational Rehabilitation held in Manila, Philippines
from 7-23 November 1960 (document ref. ILO/TAP/AFE/R.ll, Geneva
1961),
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(ii) to establish suitable means of selecting disabled
persons for vocational rehabilitation and advising
them on training and future occupation - in the
vocational guidance process due regard being paid to
the usefulness of psychological testing;
(iii) to advise on the establishment of sheltered workshops;
(iv) to assist in formulating and implementing vocational
rehabilitation services in rural areas;
(v) to advise on the training of vocational rehabilitation
staff.
4.
In carrying out his mission the expert worked closely
with the Social Welfare Administration Office of Vocational
Rehabilitation, the Bureau of Workmen's Compensation of the
Department of Labour and the National Orthopaedic Hospital of
the Department of Health.
During the last months of his mission
he also worked closely with the newly-created National Council
on Rehabilitation.
5.
During his mission the expert visited a number of
departments, agencies and offices in Manila (shown in Appendix l)
as well as a number of cities and towns throvghout the country
where he conferred with officials of the Social Welfare
Administration and the Department of Labour and visited hospitals,
vocational schools and industrial establishments.
(A list of
the cities and towns visited is shown in Appendix 2.)
6.
The Director-General of the I.L.O. wishes to express
his thanks to all those with whom the expert came into contact,
for the great friendliness and helpfulness they showed him and
also for the interest displayed in the problems concerning
rehabilitation of disabled, persons.
Special mention should be
made of all the staff concerned with rehabilitation in the
different agencies who, by showing increasing interest in new
ideas and methods, were a great cause of inspiration to the
expert.
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II.
THE EXTENT OF DISABILITY
7.
The population of the Philippines according to the
1960 census was 27,500,000.
Of these well over 2 million lived
in the greater Manila conurbation (including Quezon City,
Pasay City, Caloocan, San Juan, Makati, Paranque and Mandaluyong).
8.
There are no really reliable statistics of the number
of disabled persons in the Philippines.
There were no figures
concerning disabled persons collected at the 1960 census nor at
the previous census of 1948.
But some indications exist of the
scope of the problem.
In a publication dated 1956 entitled
Philippine Statistical Survey of Households the following figures
of disabled persons aged ten years and over are given:
Males:
124,000.
Females:
69,000.
This survey excluded the persons resident in institutions, which
of course meant that hospital patients and those in mental
institutions were not reported.
It was estimated that there
were about 200,000 persons in all excluded from the population
count in the survey and that 40,000 of these were in institutions
(other than correctional institutions).
Some proportion,
probably fairly high, of these 40,000 were presumably disabled
in addition to the 193,000 mentioned above.
9.
It is not known how this household survey was carried
out or whether the information obtained in respect of disabled
persons came from medical or lay sources or simply by ascertainment by the investigators of visible or obvious disabilities.
It is almost certain that the figures are a considerable underestimate.
Nevertheless the total of 193,000 shown plus a number
(many thousands no doubt) from among those not counted in
hospitals and institutions represents almost 1 per cent, of the
entire population and is sufficient to caxise any government to
wish to improve its vocational rehabilitation services.
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III.
THE TECHNICAL BACKGROUND TO THE MISSION
A.
Office of Vocational Rehabilitation
1.
Historical
10. Effectively, vocational rehabilitation work in the
Philippines dates from the passing of the Vocational Rehabilitation
Actl in June 1954.
This Act created the Office of Vocational
Rehabilitation (called in this report the O.V.R.) under the
control of a supervisor in one of the four divisions of the
Social Welfare Administration.
The Supervisor was directlyresponsible for the work of the O.V.R. to the Social Welfare
Administrator and, in addition "shall perform such duties as
may be assigned to him by the Social Welfare Administrator from
time to time" (Republic Act No. 1179, section 7(i)).
The
functions of the O.V.R. are outlined in the Act referred to
above, the text of which is reproduced in Appendix 3.
11. Immediately after the passing of this Act the O.V.R..
established a rehabilitation unit for blind and other disabled
persons in the Central Office of the Social Welfare Administration
in Manila.
According to section 10 of the Act the services
provided by the O.V.R. were financed mainly by a yearly draw
from the Philippines Charity Sweepstakes and partly by the net
income from an annual fund-raising week known as Handicapped
Week.
Staff salaries were provided from the Social Welfare
Administration's ordinary budget which also covered the building
of the Barranca Rehabilitation Centre, which is referred to in
paragraph 12.
12. During the years 1955-56 the O.V.R. received technical
assistance from the American Foundation for Overseas Blind.
Mrs. J.M. Sills, an expert from the U.S.A., assisted the O.V.R.
during this period and when the training unit was transferred
to new buildings in Qiiezon City she helped to plan the work
there, especially for the blind.
This training unit, initially
named the Pilot Adjustment and Training Centre, Barranca, Quezon
City, was officially opened on 19 June 1956.
(The name of the
Centre was changed in 1960 to Pilot Rehabilitation and Training
Centre, known in this report as the Barranca Centre.)
13. The Barranca Centre was managed by an Administrative
Officer to whom were responsible the Casework Supervisor, in
charge of the social workers and all casework concerning the
clients; the Chief Instructor, responsible for the training
1
Republic Act No. 1179. An Act to provide for the
promotion of vocational rehabilitation of the blind and other
handicapped persons and their return to civil employment,
19 June 1954.
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section; the Social Worker, in charge of the Special Services
and the Sheltered Workshop Supervisor.
A Medical Services
Section had "been in operation for a few months, but the doctor
in charge of this section had been transferred to Welfareville
Institution before the expert arrived.
2.
Situation on Arrival of Expert
14. When the expert arrived the Barranca Centre was being
used mainly as an adjustment centre accepting blind and other
disabled persons for a period of six months, during which period
they were undergoing a period of adjustment and various training
activities.
The Centre had the following classes:
daily home living, in which the clients were taught the
everyday subjects such as eating and drinking in a proper
way, kitchen work, household tasks of different kinds, etc.;
travel technique, here the blind were taught to find their
way around by using a cane;
Braille, here the blind were taught reading and writing in
Braille;
grammar, in which all were given a little knowledge of
basic English, and script, where clients were taught how to
write their names so as to be able to sign for their
monthly training allowances;
typing, in which most of the clients had one hour's
instruction a day;
doll making, making dolls' heads and faces of papier-mache;
brick making, where a few clients received instruction in
making hollow blocks for constructional purposes;
knitting, in which a few clients knitted sweaters and
scarves;
painting, in which two or three clients were busy copying
pictures;
hand loom weaving, attended only by very few clients;
rope project, in which instruction was given in making
rope from coco-coir;
rug making, also a coco-coir project;
door mat making, also a coco-coir project;
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(n) .carpentry, simple carpentry work and cabinet making;
(o) garment making, basic instruction in making ladies' and
men's wear;
(p)
crocheting, attended only by very few clients;
(q) loom weaving, basic knox\rledge in weaving for a few clients;
(r) basketry, a popular class for blind clients; and
(s) agriculture, a class, which had been started at the end of
1958 but had already attracted a great number of clients.
(t) harmonica, a very popular class for blind clients who were
later placed in an orchestra called the O.V.R. Rondalla.
15. All persons who wished to be admitted to the Centre
had to apply in person to the intake section of the Centre.
This meant that applicants from the provinces had to go to
Manila before they knew whether they had a chance of being
admitted to the Centre or not.
After his first visit the
applicant was asked to come back to the Centre every day to
undergo a variety of tests during an exploratory period lasting
from one to four weeks.
He attended different classes and was
also interviewed by the social worker responsible for his case.
He also had to undergo medical examinations and laboratory tests
in hospitals or clinics outside the Centre.
Finally, the social
worker responsible for the applicant would present his case to
the weekly staff meeting.
Each staff member had the right to
vote on the applicant's admission or rejection and, in the case
of rejection, the staff decision was final.
16. Clients accepted for training in the Centre were
admitted at any time after selection and received an allowance,
paid monthly, of ^3.00 per day for each working day of the first
month and ?2.00 per working day for the rest of the training
period, regardless of where they lived.
They moved from class
to class during classroom training, spending only one hour in
each class.
The daily schedule was;
8.00
8.15
10.00
10.55
12.00
1.00
2.00
4.00
to
to
to
to
to
to
to
to
8.15 a.m.
10.00 a.m.
10.15 a.m.
12.00 noon
1.00 p.m.
2.00 p.m.
4.00 p.m.
5.00 p.m.
-
Flag ceremony
Classroom training
Break
Classroom training
Lunch
Social activities
Classroom training
Athletics.
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17. There was no team work among the Centre staff; they
never met in case conference to consider the resettlement of
individuals; there was no vocational covinselling, only very
haphazard methods of psychological testing and no cajor vocational
training courses.
Each of the 22 social workers employed at
the Centre made her own decisions about the kinds of training
to be followed by and the classes scheduled for her own clients
and she was responsible for their resettlement.
The Casework
Supervisor responsible for the section had little time to
discuss individual clients and their problems with her colleagues
for she was mainly occupied in allocating the clients to the
various social workers.
18. The duration of any ordinary client's stay in the
Centre was limited to six months; at the end of that period he
was terminated even if not fully prepared for return to work.
At this stage the social worker reported the case history and
future plans for the client to the weekly staff meeting, after
which the client was sent home.
The social worker responsible
for him in the Centre also carried en with the necessary follow
up, but no proper placement action was taken.
19. Some of the clients who had completed their training
course of six months were employed in the Centre as clerks,
janitors and assistant instructors; others, known as client
trustees, were retained for what was known as specialised
training which was indeterminate and resembled a kind of
sheltered workshop system.
20. The Centre also had a sheltered workshop, started in
1956, in which some blind clients worked one or two days a week
making zinc parts for flashlight batteries.
A few other
disabled persons were producing mats, trays and baskets for
sale but, because of the location of the Centre, there were
difficulties in selling the finished products.
The sheltered
workshop was administered by social workers and could not accept
work for the performance of which technical knowledge was
necessary.
21. Statistics of the operation of the O.V.R. are given
in Appendix 4.
The discrepancy between the number of registered
clients and the number of clients who underwent training and
received a training allowance is due to the fact that a number
of applicants who were accepted for training failed to report.
22. The principal difficulties and shortcomings of the
O.V.R. Barranca Centre were that it lacked;
(a) a systematic application system and proper application
forms for clients from the provinces who wanted to be
admitted;
(b) an over-all supervision of the activities in the Centre;
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(c) a team approach to the rehabilitation problems of the
client;
(d) medical assistance and guidance;
(e) satisfactory vocational guidance and psychological testing;
(f)
sufficient vocational training (there was a marked absence
of a regular training curriculum in the vocational classes);
(g)
systematic placement procedure for clients;
(h) a technical leader for the sheltered workshop.
B.
National Orthopaedic Hospital
23. The National Orthopaedic Hospital was founded in 1945
and occupied half of the building of the Philippine Mental
Hospital.
Construction of a new building, which would include
a limb and brace shop to be built to the specifications of the
Australian Government (see paragraph 27), had been started some
years ago.
In the report by the U.N. expert, Dr. Henry H. Kessler,
referred to in paragraph 1, it was recommended that a rehabilitation institution for the physically handicapped should be
constructed in connection with this hospital.
24. The hospital admitted patients with orthopaedic
disabilities, including paraplegics, from all over the country,
the main efforts at rehabilitation being concentrated on the
paraplegics.
There was a Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Department which had no permanent staff, the chief of the
department being an orthopaedic surgeon who also performed other
duties in the hospital.
25. When the expert arrived there were more than
100 paraplegic patients, located in separate wards for males and
females.
There were no hopes of rehabilitating many of them;
some of them had been in the hospital for over four years, and
no steps had been taken to segregate those who might be
rehabilitated from the hopeless cases.
26. A rehabilitation team, led by an orthopaedic surgeon,
met three times a i^eek to discuss and evaluate the paraplegic
cases.
The team was composed of two or three doctors, nurses,
physiotherapists, the psychologist, the occupational therapist,
the chief of the limb and brace shop and the vocational
counsellor.
27. The Occupational Therapy Department was under the
leadership of a very able occupational therapist, but it was
short of equipment and material and could not provide all the
occupational therapy needed.
It had, however, a small watchrepairing unit, used partly as occupational therapy and partly
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as vocational training, lout this section was also very short of
equipment.
The psychologist had no equipment and could not
perform any aptitude tests. The limb and brace shop was located
in a small "building and there was considerable delay in providing
the prosthetic appliances needed by the patients.
The
Australian Government had offered, through the Colombo Plan, to
provide equipment, materials and technical assistance in order to
expand the department's services, but it would be necessary to
construct a building of about 7,000 square feet before the
programme could become operative.
C.
Bureau of Workmen's Compensation, Department of Labour
28. The legislative basis is the Workmen's Compensation
Act, No. 348 of 1927, as amended in 1928, 1930, 1936 and 1952.
Section 14 of the Act, as amended, provided for the payment of
weekly compensation to workers incapacitated by injury or sickness.
The responsibility for payment of compensation was placed on
employers.
29. Paragraph 8f of the amended Act provided that if a worker
killed in an accident left no dependants the employer should pay
£"1,000 to the Workmen's Compensation Fund.
Section 55 provided
that the Fund should be under the custody and control of the
Workmen's Compensation Commissioner and should be used for payment
of the expenses of the administration of the Act and that any
surplus in the Fund should be used for the rehabilitation of
persons injured at work.
30. The Act was administered by the Bureatt of Workmen's
Compensation.
The responsibility for the rehabilitation of
persons injured at work was placed on the Evaluation Division
of the Bureau.
In October 1958 the Secretary of Labour appointed
a committee of five members to screen the applications for
rehabilitation from disabled xrorkers.
This committee met
weekly.
31. Requests for rehabilitation were sent to the Evaluation
Division of the Bureau and were referred to the Screening
Committee.
The eligibility conditions for consideration for
rehabilitation were that the client should be entitled to
compensation, be of working age and have a reasonable chance
of obtaining a new job.
The decisions of the Committee were
sent to the Director of the Bureau of Workmen's Compensation
and were finally transmitted to and approved by the Secretary
of Labour.
32. After the screening committee mentioned in paragraph 30
had been set up employers were contacted to ascertain if they
were willing to finance the rehabilitation of disabled workers.
Unfortunately, as the existing legislation did not specifically
require them to do so, they generally refused.
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33. The Bureau of Workmen's Compensation had no facilities
itself for the rehabilitation of disabled persons and could onlyact as a referring agency bearing the expenses of rehabilitation.
The Screening Committee had its difficulties, particularly with
cases from the provinces outside Manila because there were no
funds to transport the disabled persons from their homes to
Manila.
The services provided were also very limited and the
processing procedure very slow, with the. result that cases
possibly suitable for rehabilitation were overlooked.
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IV.
THE WORK OF THE MISSION
A.
Office of Vocational Rehabilitation, Barranca Centre
1.
Approach to the Problem
34. Whilst he worked with all three divisions of the Office
of Vocational Rehabilitation (Rehabilitation Standards Division,
Rehabilitation Services Division and the Barranca Centre), the
expert decided to devote most of his time to the Barranca Centre
with the object of securing some improvement in the procedure and
the work so that the clients might derive more benefit from their
stay.
At the same time, he considered that the Centre should
co-operate more closely with the National Orthopaedic Hospital
so that it might use the services of the orthopaedic consultant
at that hospital and obtain assistance in the provision of
artificial limbs for orthopaedically disabled clients.
35. There were some initial difficulties in securing full
co-operation from the Supervisor of the Office of Vocational
Rehabilitation and the staff, not the least of which was due to
the fact that the Supervisor had many other duties to perform in
addition to those at the Centre and was only able to spare a
little time for the expert.
It was not until some months after
his arrival that the expert was fully authorised to work with the
Centre staff in evaluating the different sections of the Centre.
36. Plans were already under way at the time of the expertJs
arrival to extend the training period so that the clients could
remain in the Centre for a maximum of one year.
The expert
assisted in drafting this and other proposals during his first
few months in the country and these were included in House Bill
No. 3082 presented to the 1959 Congressional Session and passed
as Republic Act No. 26151 on 2 July 1959 (see paragraph 66 and
Appendix 10).
2.
Intake Procedure
37. The expert began by examining the intake procedure.
He suggested that the use of the term "special client" should be
discontinued and that disabled persons should not be admitted to
training classes until they had been accepted as regular clients.
An Act to amend certain sections of Republic Act No. 1179
entitled "An Act to Provide for the Promotion of Vocational
Rehabilitation of the Blind and Other Handicapped Persons and their
Return to Civil Employment and to Create a National Council on
Rehabilitation".
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He designed a set of application forms, which are set out in
Appendix 5, and proposed that applications for admission to the
Centre should be screened by an Admission Committee, consisting
of the Supervisor of the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation
(the Superintendent of the Barranca Centre took over this duty
in September I960), the Centre Doctor and Casework Supervisor.
which would take decisions on the applications.
Until a permanent Centre Doctor was appointed, this part of the application
would be certified by the doctor who examined the applicant.
He
also suggested that clients accepted for training should be told
to report to the Centre on the first day of the month following
acceptance.
This action would enable the Training Section to
work with monthly groups of trainees instead of with individuals
arriving on a variety of dates.
The proposals were examined by
the Centre staff and were accepted by the Supervisor of the Office
of Vocational Rehabilitation in May 1959.
3.
Rehabilitation Team
38. The expert then suggested that a Rehabilitation Team
should be set up to discuss the clients in case conferences and
plan their future.
The team was established in July 1959 with
the following memberships
Casework Supervisor (Chairman)
Centre Superintendent
Centre Doctor
Vocational Counsellor
Psychologist
Chief Instructor
Placement Officer
Social Worker.
When the Chairman though it desirable, the Chief of the Rehabilitation Standards Division of the O.V.R. and a representative from the
Rehabilitation Clearance Section were also co-opted to the team.
39. The expert worked in close contact with each member of
the team and he also took part in all the case conferences in order
to teach the members of the team their new responsibilities and
give them the latest information about new indeas and methods in
rehabilitation and the techniques and methods of the special
vocational counselling which would be necessary.
40. Whilst the responsibilities of the Casework Supervisor,
the Doctor and the Chief Instructor were fairly easily definable,
some difficulties arose in connection with other members of the
team.
Although the social workers were very anxious to learn,
none of them was really qualified to act as a vocational counsellor.
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The expert emphasised the importance of vocational counselling and
took special steps to train suitable social workers in this field
of work, including taking them to visit industrial and other
establishments so that they might study occupations suitable for
disabled persons, working methods and job analysis.
The social
workers were nearly all women and, as he considered that there would
be considerable advantage in having a male vocational counsellor
to deal with men's cases, the expert recommended that the Office of
Vocational Rehabilitation should endeavour to recruit at least
one male vocational counsellor.
41. Although the psychologist had managed to borrow some
equipment from the University of the Philippines it was quite
inadequate to enable her to give proper attention to aptitude
testing; hence regard was paid solely to the personal attributes
of the clients.
The psychologist's reports were insufficient
to enable the vocational counsellor to analyse the client's
interests and ability adequately.
The expert, therefore,
recommended that some psychological equipment should be ordered from
the United Kingdom and the United States.
This was done and the
equipment arrived in December 1959.
4.
Social Services
42. Reorganisation of the social service was also necessary.
The duties of the social workers were not arranged in any
systematic manner and each of them was responsible for an assortment of clients which led to confusion in their daily activities.
For example, one social worker might be responsible for three
clients in training, a special client, six client trustees and a
number of clients whose training periods had terminated.
At the
expert's suggestion the system was reorganised so that particular
social workers were responsible for different groups of clients.
Pour social workers were allocated to clients in training, four to
client trustees, six to clients whose training periods had
terminated, two to applicants for admission whose cases were
pending and three to special service cases.
This organisation,
which was implemented in September 1959? was much more effective,
although it was necessary to allocate additional duties to some
of the social workers and, from time to time, to change the
groups of clients with whom they were working.
5.
Re-evaluation Team
43. In order that the different sections of the Centre might
be re-evaluated, a small team was selected for this purpose from
the members of the Rehabilitation Team.
This team was under the
chairmanship of the Chief of Rehabilitation Standards Division
with whom the expert worked closely in drafting new plans, rules
and regulations.
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6.
Vocational Training Section
44. The vocational Training. Section was re-evaluated first
and the Re-evaluation Team in conjunction with the expert
recommended that:
(a)
the classes in agriculture, dressmaking, tailoring,
carpentry and basket work, which were the only ones carried
on as real vocational courses in the Centre, should he
selected as the major courses in which each client should
receive a minimum of four hours' training per day;
(b) a sighted instructor, able to control the work of the two
blind assistant instructors, should be assigned to the
basketry class and a separate qualified instructor appointed
for the carpentry class;
(c) the tailoring and dressmaking classes should be separated
and a separate instructor appointed for each (the tailoring
instructor was appointed early in I960),
45. In order that the trainees should be able, on
completion of their courses, to compete with able-bodied trainees
from the regular vocational schools, courses of study, based on
the curricula of the regular vocational schools, were prepared by
the expert in co-operation with the Centre's Chief Instructor.
These courses were followed as closely as possible but there were
some difficult practical problems to be solved.
The main
problems were the different educational attainments of the
trainees, the lack of training material and equipment and the
short period of training each day.
46. The re-evaluation of the Vocational Training Section
was completed in September 1959 and the reorganisation of the
work of the social workers (see paragraph 42) was then implemented.
47. In January 1959 some equipment had been ordered for the
Office of Vocational Rehabilitation from the Colombo Plan.
The
list was revised after the expert's arrival to include sewing
machines and machines for the carpentry class. Most of the
equipment was eventually received but it could not be installed
because the electric motors of the machines were of the wrong
type and needed to be changed.
When this change has been effected,
the carpentry class in particular should be able to function more
effectively.
The expert also obtained a number of sewing machines
for the tailoring and dressmaking classes in July I960 and the
classes then operated satisfactorily.
At the end of the expert's
mission 30 clients were in training in these classes, some working
in the morning and others in the afternoon classes which each
lasted four hours, but the clients only worked a total of four
hours a day each.
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48. In order that the clients might get the greatest possible
"benefit from their stay at the Centre and he properly prepared for
subsequent employment it is to he recommended that their hours of
training in the major courses (see paragraph 44) should be increased
so that each can have six hours actual training per day.
Combined
with this development there should be an examination and overhaul
of the existing courses.
This should be followed by an investigation of the extent of the employment openings available for trained
disabled persons which could lead to the setting up of new
training courses to meet the demand.
7.
Medical Services
49. Whilst the members of the Rehabilitation Team (see
paragraph 38) had been making good progress with their work, the
lack of the services of the medical member was impeding the smooth
working of the team.
Early in 1959j the expert requested that a
doctor should be assigned to the Barranca Centre.
He repeated his
request in August 1959 and also asked for the assignment of a
qualified nurse.
The request was ultimately presented to
Congress at its I960 session.
Eventually in July I960 a doctor
took up his duties at the Barranca Centre.
50. The Doctor could not be present at all times at the
Barranca Centre and when he was visiting hospitals or conferences
a medical social worker was left in charge of his office.
This
arrangement was not satisfactory and it is recommended that the
request for the appointment of a qualified nurse for the Barranca
Centre be considered urgently.
8.
Placement Service
51. Prior to the arrival of the expert, placement of the
clients who had completed their training periods had been undertaken by the social workers in respect of their own individual
clients.
These clients had received very little real vocational
training and attempts at placement were on a haphazard basis
consisting mainly of contacts by the social workers with some
factories, other establishments, friends and relations.
52. With the introduction of the longer training periods and
the reorganisation of vocational training, some of the clients had
the opportunity of becoming qualified in occupations such as
carpentry, tailoring and dressmaking.
The expert suggested at
this stage that a special Placement Unit should be set up and that
placement work should be undertaken by placement officers who
should devote their whole time to finding suitable jobs for clients
who had completed the training course.
Two social workers were
transferred from general social work to placement work in November
1959 and they were taken on instructional visits to industrial
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establishments and instructed in job analysis by the expert.
The
Placement Unit which was administered by the Rehabilitation Services
Division, and located in the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation,
was functioning satisfactorily at the end of the expert's mission.
Nevertheless, it is considered that additional placement officers,
of whom at least one should be male, will be needed to handle the
steadily increasing number of clients who have completed trainingin the Centre.
53. Whilst an increase in the number of placements can be
expected as the placement Y/orkers gather experience, the possibilities of the placement of disabled workers should not be overestimated in view of the prevailing high levels of unemployment
and underemployment in the Philippines.
It must also be admitted
that influence can play an important part in securing employment
whether it be in the civil services, factories, industrial and
other establishments.
It is, therefore, most probable that only a
limited percentage of the clients who have completed training
courses will be placed in the open market; many of them, particularly those who have completed training courses in agriculture,
basketry, dressmaking and tailoring, will have to resort to selfemployment.
54. It is, therefore, recommended that tne Office of
Vocational Rehabilitation should include in its future budgets
an item for the purchase of material and equipment for clients who
need to set up in self-employment (e.g. a sewing machine for one
trained in tailoring? working toolsj a few pigs, chickens, etc.
for a trainee from the Agricultural Section, etc.).
9.
Follow up
55. Prom the outset the expert tried to establish a followup system to ascertain the results of the rehabilitation
programme at the Barranca Centre.
In July 1959 letters were
sent to the first 200 clients who had completed their training
period and, although only 30 persons replied to the letter in
four months, letters were sent to the next 200 clients and the
process continued until all clients who had terminated up to
December 1959 had been contacted.
56. Following this preliminary essay, a regular follow-up
system was initiated and was still in progress when the expert
left.
Follow-up forms were to be sent by the social worker
responsible for the case to all clients six months after the
completion of training and again at the end of one year after
the completion of training.
If necessary, further follow-up
action would be taken at a later stage until the result was
finally ascertained.
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10.
Sheltered Workshop
57. During his visits to industrial establishments the
expert discovered that there was a great deal of goodwill towards
assisting disabled persons to secure employment. Among these
establishments there were some radio factories which were willing
to send winding and assembly work to the Barranca Centre's sheltered
workshop provided the work could be controlled by a competent
person.
Unfortunately, as there was no technical person in charge
of the sheltered workshop, it was difficult to accept orders
requiring technical and mechanical skill.
There were good
opportunities for such work or will be in future and it is
recommended that a technically qualified person, preferably with
experience in a radio factory or a fine precision workshop, should
be appointed to act as manager of the sheltered workshop.
11.
Dormitory Accommodation
58. The Barranca Centre is non-residential, clients reporting
at 8 a.m. and leaving at 5 p.m.
Those from outside the Manila
area had to find lodgings and pay for them out of the daily
allowance they received whilst at the Centre - $.3 per day for the
first month, ^.2 per day for the remaining months.
59. Officials of the Field Clearance Section, a section of
the Rehabilitation Services Division of the Office of Vocational
Rehabilitation, who were responsible for co-ordination between
the Barranca Centre and the regional and provincial offices of the
Social Welfare Administration, assisted the clients in finding
accommodation but because of their limited means they were
usually accommodated in slum districts.
This frequently had bad
effects, particularly on young persons, and what was gained during
training periods' might have been destroyed by bad influences in
or near their living quarters.
It is considered that the clients
should be under more rigid control both in the Barranca Centre
and during their free time and it is therefore recommended that a
dormitory to accommodate at least 50 clients should be built on
the Barranca Centre premises and that better allowances should be
given to those who have to live in lodgings.
12.
Over-all Supervision and Control
60.
During his two years' mission the greatest problem
encountered by the expert was the lack of over-all supervision
of the Barranca Centre.
The Supervisor and many social workers
had other duties to perform in the Central Office of the Social
Welfare Administration.
This sometimes led to difficulties at
the Barranca Centre where nobody with the over-all responsibility
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for the running of the Centre was present on a permanent basis.
The Supervisor was very frequently called upon to undertake other
duties at the Social Welfare Administration and was seldom able to
devote more than a part of his time to the Office of Vocational
Rehabilitation.
It is strongly recommended that the Supervisor
of the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation should be left to his
work of planning and implementing the rehabilitation programme of
the Social Welfare Administration and should only be called upon to
perform other duties in an emergency.
61. In theory, an administrative officer had the over-all
responsibility for the economic and administrative aspects of the
Barranca Centre but she was not in over-all control and supervision
of the technical and the educational work.
In July 1959 her
official title was changed from Administrative Officer to
Superintendent but no changes were made in her real duties as she
still had to spend many hours in the Social Welfare Administration
Central Office on other duties.
This was bad for the Centre which
felt the lack of a leader.
62. Following representations by the expert, in AugustSeptember I960 the position of the Superintendent was reviewed and
additional responsibilities placed upon her.
The position at the
end of the mission was that the Superintendent had the over-all
supervision of all sections of the Barranca Centre and was also
charged with the responsibility for continuing the work established
by the expert and for implementing his recommendations.
The
Superintendent had also taken over the functions of the Supervisor
as member of the Admission Committee of the Centre (see paragraph 37).
63. At the beginning of 1956 a reorganisation plan (No. 50)
in respect of the Social Welfare Administration was drafted by
the Government Survey and Reorganisation Commission.
An extract
of the part of this plan covering O.V.R. is given in Appendix 6.
The plan became operative in the summer of 1959 but the part
concerning the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation contained a good
deal of overlapping and by then needed revision.
The expert
suggested some necessary changes and rewrote the staff functions;
these were accepted, and implemented in the summer of I960.
The
present plan, based on the expert's recommendations, gives a clearer
picture of the total activities of the O.V.R., especially in the
Barranca Centre.
(The revised organisation of the O.V.R., the
revised organisation and functions of the Barranca Centre and the
job descriptions of the Superintendent, the Medical Officer, the
Casework Supervisor and the Chief Instructor are given in
Appendices 7 to 9.)
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13.
Rehabilitation Officers in the Provinces
64. In the autumn of 1959 an in-service training course, in
which the expert participated by giving some lectures, was held
for six social workers who were to become rehabilitation workers
in six of the Social Welfare Administration's regional offices.
These trained rehabilitation workers took up their duties in the
provinces in October 1959 but, for a variety of reasons, only two
continued in post, one in Manila and one in Dagupan.
Subsequently
two additional new rehabilitation workers were assigned to the
cities of Naga and Zamboanga and another one, under training in
the Barranca Centre, was scheduled to take up her duties in Cebu
city at the end of I960.
It is recommended that rehabilitation
workers should also be assigned as soon as possible to the Social
Welfare Administration's regional offices in Tugurgarao, Iloile and
Davao.
65. These rehabilitation v/orkers in the regional offices
should expect to receive some assistance from the Director of
these offices.
This is a new experimental service and these
newly recruited and trained officials should not be too rigidly
controlled and should be allowed to act on their own initiative
as much as possible, particularly because they are feeling their
way in their districts and must make their efforts in the
directions which it appears to them will yield the best results
for the disabled as well as for the O.V.R. service.
14.
Regional Adjustment and Training Centres
66. During the expert's mission the Fourth Congress of the
Republic, at its Second Special Session, passed Republic Act No.
2615 which amended certain sections of the Vocational Rehabilitation
Act (Republic Act No. 1179) referred to in paragraph 10.
Republic Act No. 2615, whose text is reproduced in Appendix 10,
amended the original Act in three ways? it increased the
maximum training period for disabled persons from 6 to.12 months
(see paragraphs 18 and 36); it established a National Council on
Rehabilitation (see paragraphs 86 and 87); it authorised the
establishment of nine Regional Adjustment and Training Centres
over a period of four years at Dagupan, Juguegaro, San Pablo, Naga,
Iloile, Cebu, Cagayan de Oro, Davas and Zamboanga.
67. The Social Welfare Administration maintained eight
regional offices, 55 provincial offices and six city offices. The
regional and provincial offices visited by the expert had very
poor accommodation and were ill equipped, many of them being
without telephones and typewriters and only two or three of them
having any means of transport.
The staff were allowed to spend
a few pesos on public transport, but they had to use their own
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money and claim vouched expenditure subsequently from Manila;
these claims were not settled very promptly and one provincial
office had unsettled claims dating hack to 1957.
In passing it
is therefore recommended that the staff in the regional and
provincial offices of the S.W.A. should he given sufficient funds to
cover the travelling and other expenses incurred in their duties.
They should not have to meet these expenses out of their salaries.
68. The regional and provincial offices also had great
difficulty in assisting disabled persons because they had no money
for transporting clients from their homes to the Barranca Centre
in Manila.
Some of the offices visited by the expert had no funds
from which to assist indigent people who approached them for aid
and they had to rely on the goodwill of civic-minded people; one
or two shipping companies, for example, provided free transport
for disabled persons going to Manila.
This state of affairs
should not be allowed to continue and it is recommended that the
Office of Vocational Rehabilitation should provide funds for the
transportation of clients in its budget.
69. As a result of these visits to the Social Welfare
Administration's regional and provincial offices the expert came
to the conclusion that the whole organisation was not sufficiently
strong as yet administratively or financially to support the
number of rehabilitation centres proposed in Republic Act 2615.
Even if these centres were supposed to be self-supporting with a
special budget, it seemed inevitable that once the regional and
provincial offices ran into difficulties they would call on the
rehabilitation centres for support.
Moreover, it seemed likely
that, because of the lack of trained staff, lack of financial
resources and the administrative civilisation in Manila, it would
be a long time before all the proposed rehabilitation centres
can be built,
70. It is therefore recommended that the Social Welfare
Administration should plan to establish only three regional
rehabilitation centres over the next decade.
These might
preferably be built in Dagupan, Cebu and Zamboanga; Dagupan, in
the northern part of the island of Luzon, could receive clients
from that part of the country; Cebu could receive clients from
the middle of the country5 and Zamboanga, on the southern tip
of the island of Mindanao, could cover the southern part of the
country.
The remaining six regional centres can be set up once
the first three have been successfully established and operated.
A site is now available in Dagupan and construction of this
first centre could start in 1961. A description of the
organisation and functions of this first regional centre was
worked out jointly by the expert and the Chief of Rehabilitation
Standards Division of the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation;
this is reproduced in Appendix 11. Placement services were not
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included in the functions of the regional centres as this duty
was placed on the rehabilitation worker in the Social Welfare
Administration regional office, who should he appointed without
delay.
The rehabilitation centre was supposed to he located in
the same town or city as the regional office.
B..
The National Orthopaedic Hospital
71. Each week whilst he was in Manila the expert attended
one or two meetings of the Rehabilitation Team which met at the
National Orthopaedic Hospital to discuss patients' cases. The
most noticeable feature of these meetings in the early stages of
the mission was that the doctors did not appear to know the
patients.
Paraplegic patients were frequently not visited by a
doctor for weeks and the doctors discussing the cases in the
Rehabilitation Team were not those who were responsible for the
same patients in the wards.
72.. Personal contact with the patients was left to nurses,
social workers, the psychologist and the vocational counsellor when
the last named was eventually appointed.
The nurses carried the
greatest burden and, because of the absence of doctors in the
paraplegic wards, they were really responsible for the patients.
The social workers did not obtain sufficient detail about the
patients' problems and their reports to the team conferences
frequently left the rest of the team to solve a number of
problems.
73. The psychologist had no equipment to enable him to
undertake aptitude testing of patients.
On advice from* and with
the help of, the expert, material for psychological testing,
including aptitude testing, was ordered from the United States and
the United Kingdom.
This material was received early in I960.
74. The staff of the National Orthopaedic Hospital did not
include a vocational counsellor, but a social worker was paid by
the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes to act as such on a half-day
basis at the hospital. As it was obvious that a great many of
the patients needed guidance and counselling, the expert
suggested early in I960 that two vocational counsellor posts
should be created in the hospital.
These officers would, in
addition to their counselling work, be responsible for the social
work involved in the patients' return to their homes and in
finding suitable work for them.
Two vocational counsellors were
appointed in July I960, one of whom underwent in-service training
at the Barranca Rehabilitation Centre, the other being due to
start her training early in 1961.
75. The Occupational Therapy Department at the National
Orthopaedic Hospital was ably led by a trained occupational
therapist, but the accommodation was much too small and,
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unfortunately, there was no room for its expansion in the existing
hospital premises.
The only action which the expert was able to
take to improve matters was to arrange for the recruitment of
two watch repairers for the watch repairing unit, the purchase
of some small tools, the donation of five wheelchairs from the
C.A.R.E. Organisation for use by the patients in the watchrepairing unit and the purchase of some books on rehabilitation.
76. As the National Orthopaedic Hospital is a normal hospital
and patients have to be discharged on completion of their treatment,
the hospital should not expand its own vocational rehabilitation
services.
There is also a need for many more beds for
orthopaedic patients in the hospital, it being necessary quite
frequently to put two patients in one bed in the emergency wards.
It is therefore recommended that the Department of Health should
approach the Social Welfare Administration with a view to
arranging for the O.V.R. to undertake the rehabilitation of
paraplegic patients.
This might be achieved by building a
dormitory for them in the Barranca Centre and subsequently
employing them in the Centre's sheltered workshop.
C.
The Bureau of Workmens1 Compensation
77. The expert arranged to attend the weekly meetings of
the committee appointed in the Evaluation Division to screen
applications for rehabilitation from injured and disabled workers.
At these meetings the expert took the opportunity to brief the
members on the principles of vocational rehabilitation.
He
found that the nurse and the social worker of the Evaluation
Division were examining cases for rehabilitation and contacting
employers with a view to resettling the injured workers. No
active rehabilitation procedure was, however, set up until the
expert succeeded in linking the Bureau of Workmen's Compensation
with the National Orthopaedic Hospital and the Barranca Centre.
78. The expert considered it essential that there should
be close co-operation and co-ordination between the Bureau of
Workmen's Compensation, the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation
and the National Orthopaedic Hospital.
Co-operation was
necessary with the National Orthopaedic Hospital because many
of the disabled workers required artificial limbs and braces and
the National Orthopaedic Hospital was. one of the very few hospitals
in which such appliances were made.
The expert considered that
the Bureau of Workmen's Compensation could pay for these
appliances out of the Rehabilitation Fund provided it was
certified that they were absolutely necessary to enable disabled
workers to enter suitable employment.
In spite of his efforts
satisfactory financial arrangements with this end in view had not
been completed by the end of his mission.
It is recommended
that such arrangements should be made as soon as possible.
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79. A number of disabled workers needed vocational training
before they could enter a new occupation.
Go-operation between
the Bureau of Workmen's Compensation and the Office of Vocational
Rehabilitation was therefore necessary because vocational training
for the disabled was really available only in the Barranca Centre.
Following the expert's representations and suggestions the Office
of "Vocational Rehabilitation and the Bureau of Workmen's Compensation agreed that clients should be sent to the Barranca Centre
for training and that the Bureau of Workmen's Compensation would
make a "per capita!: payment to the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation in respect of each client.
80. The number of cases discussed by the Screening Committee
was not large but they were often brought up for rediscussion on
more than one occasion, unnecessarily so, it seemed to the expert.
Furthermore, because of the slow administrative procedure, it
proved difficult for the Screening Committee to make any decisions
favourable to the disabled workers.
It is to be hoped that methods
can be adopted to speed up the procedure so as to avoid delays in
arriving at decisions.
81. Most of the injured workers whose cases were discussed
by the Screening Committee came from the greater Manila area.
The
number of cases coming from the provinces for rehabilitation was
very small.
This was thought to be due in part to the fact that
the long delays in the official settlement of cases under the
Workmens' Compensation Act probably led to the direct settlement of
many cases between employers and workers for sums much less than
were provided for in the Act. Another reason was the great
difficulty, in regular compensation cases, of meeting the cost of
the transport for disabled workers coming from the provinces to
Manila.
At the instigation of the expert the question of
whether the Rehabilitation Fund could bear the expenses of transportation of the disabled and their vocational training in
institutions other than the Barranca Centre was submitted to the
Auditor General.
The Auditor General expressed the opinion that
reasonable expenses incurred in the transport of disabled workers
from their places of residence to Manila or other places of
training and their return home, and the payment of subsistence
allowances to them whilst undergoing training, were properly
chargeable to the Rehabilitation Fund, provided that these and
other items of expenditure in connection with rehabilitation were
itemised in a special budget to be approved by the President.
Despite the Auditor General's favourable opinion no action had
been taken in this respect by the end of the expert's mission.
This is a measure that could help a number of disabled workers,
more especially when further rehabilitation training centres are
offered.
It is therefore recommended that it should be put into
operation as soon as possible.
Furthermore every effort should be
made to administer the Rehabilitation Fund in as flexible and
positive a way as possible so as to ease the task of the Screening
Committee and provide more opportunities for disabled persons to
receive vocational rehabilitation.
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82. The Bureau of Workmen's Compensation could also render
considerable assistance by arranging to provide fully trained
disabled workers who are unable to compete in the open market and
for whom self-employment is the best form of resettlement with the
equipment necessary to enable them to commence in business on
their own account.
It is recommended that the Bureau of
7/orkmen's Compensation should regard the purchase of equipment and
materials for starting small businesses and workshops as a necessary
item in the rehabilitation of the disabled and properly payable
from the Rehabilitation Fund.
83. Some of the members of the Screening Committee, in
company with placement officers and vocational counsellors from the
Barranca Centre and a vocational counsellor from the National
Orthopaedic Hospital, took part in surveys of 33 industrial
establishments in the Manila area.
The expert participated in
25 of the visits, the objects of which were to ascertain the
types of employment suitable for rehabilitated disabled workers and
to give some idea of the work performed in industrial establishments,
.job analysis and work traditions.
It was understood at the end
of the mission that this programme was to be continued with
visits to other establishments.
This is to be recommended.
D.
Department of labour
84. The export also tried to establish co-operation with the
Manpower Service of the Department of labour in the placement of
disabled persons and to set up a section in the Department for
that purpose.
It was not possible to find any official in the
Department with the necessary experience and qualifications.
Moreover, even had a suitable person been found, it would have been
difficult to provide suitable accommodation for him in the Manila
Employment Office.
The expert therefore, abandoned this intention
for the time being.
85. Nevertheless matters ought not to rest tuere, for the
Department of labour should be fully drawn into the vocational
rehabilitation programme and should assume its rightful share of
the work and responsibilities.
It is therefore recommended that
at the earliest possible moment a Placement Unit for the disabled
should be established, preferably in the Manila Employment Office.
The placement officer allocated to this task should be authorised
to visit industrial establishments in the Manila area (which
current regulations would not allow him to do) to locate suitable
openings for the disabled and should help persons referred to him
from the Barranca Centre, the National Orthopaedic Hospital, the
3ureau of Workmen's Compensation and other agencies.
In the long
run selective placement of the disabled should be taken over by the
Department of labour, to which it properly belongs, but until this
comes about all disabled persons seeking employment should be
referred to the Placement Unit of the Office of Vocational
Rehabilitation.
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E.
National Council on Rehabilitation
86. The U.N. expert, Dr. Henry H. Kessler, in his report
on his visit to the Philippines in 1956 (see paragraph 1) recommended
that an Interdepartmental Committee should be established so that
each department could be kept informed of the rehabilitation
activities being carried out in the other departments.
This
recommendation was finally implemented in 1959 with the passing of
Republic Act 2615 (see Appendix 10).
The statutory functions
of this Committee, known as the National Council on Rehabilitation,
included the formulation of policy for the rehabilitation of the
disabled in the Philippines, the co-ordination of rehabilitation
programmes and the preparation of necessary rules, regulations etc.
for this purpose.
In addition to these functions, it is
recommended that the Council should also concentrate its efforts on
the placement of handicapped workers and that the members of the
Council should actively support this object.
87. The members of the Council, all officials of high rank,
were appointed on 15 July I960.
Many of them did not, or were
not, able to attend the Council meetings regularly.
This was
most unfortunate.
It should be realised that the implementation
of the rehabilitation programmes in the country depends very
mnch on the work and efforts of this Council which represents a
forum where the interests and problems of all the interested
government departments may be discussed.
It is desirable to have
members who carry authority in the departments and agencies which
they represent.
But if it continues to be difficult for senior
officials to attend the Council meetings regularly because of
their other responsibilities it is suggested that they should make
way for technical members of their staff who could attend meetings
regularly and become active members of the Council.
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V.
EVALUATION OP THE WORK
8 8 . The e x p e r t encountered a good many d i f f i c u l t i e s i n h i s
e f f o r t s t o a t t a i n the o b j e c t s of h i s m i s s i o n .
At t h e o u t s e t t h e r e
v/as some d e l a y i n s e c u r i n g t h e c o - o p e r a t i o n of t h e S u p e r v i s o r of
t h e Office of V o c a t i o n a l R e h a b i l i t a t i o n ; t h i s was l a r g e l y due t o
the f a c t t h a t he had o t h e r j o b s to do and was not a b l e t o devote
h i s f u l l time t o the work of the Office of V o c a t i o n a l R e h a b i l i t a t i o n .
S i m i l a r l y , t h e r e o r g a n i s a t i o n of t h e B a r r a n c a Centre was impeded by
t h e l a c k of o v e r - a l l s u p e r v i s i o n .
Here a l s o , u n t i l l a t e i n I 9 6 0 ,
t h e S u p e r i n t e n d e n t had t o u n d e r t a k e o t h e r d u t i e s i n t h e S o c i a l
Welfare A d m i n i s t r a t i o n which took up a g r e a t d e a l of h e r t i m e and
she was, i n consequence, unable t o s u p e r v i s e the Centre on a p e r manent f u l l - t i m e b a s i s .
89« D e s p i t e t h e s e d i f f i c u l t i e s , t h e e x p e r t was i n s t r u m e n t a l
i n e f f e c t i n g improvement i n t h e B a r r a n c a C e n t r e , n o t a b l y by i n t r o ducing a new i n t a k e procedure and a r e h a b i l i t a t i o n team, r e o r g a n i s i n g t h e S o c i a l S e r v i c e and V o c a t i o n a l T r a i n i n g S e c t i o n s , s e t t i n g up
a Placement Unit i n t h e Office of V o c a t i o n a l R e h a b i l i t a t i o n and
i n i t i a t i n g a p r o p e r procedure f o r t h e f o l l o w - u p of c l i e n t s as w e l l
as t r a i n i n g t h e s t a f f i n new methods.
He was a l s o a b l e to make
recommendations i n c o n n e c t i o n w i t h t h e improvement of o t h e r
a c t i v i t i e s of t h e C e n t r e .
90. The expert was able t o suggest some improvements in the
operation of the vocational r e h a b i l i t a t i o n s e r v i c e s a v a i l a b l e a t
the National Orthopaedic Hospital and the r e h a b i l i t a t i o n programmes of the Bureau of Workmen's Compensation.
He also
managed t o improve the co-operation between these two organisations
and the Office of Vocational R e h a b i l i t a t i o n .
The development of
the l a t t e r action i s , however, contingent to some extent on e a r l y
a c t i o n being taken by the Government t o l i b e r a l i s e the present
r e s t r i c t i o n s on the uses to which the R e h a b i l i t a t i o n Fund of the
Bureau of Workmen's Compensation may be p u t .
9 1 . The outstanding event during the mission, i n which the
expert played a p a r t , was the passing of Republic Act 2615 i n
July 1959 which increased the maximum t r a i n i n g period for the
disabled at the Barranca and other centres operated by the O.V.R.
from 6 t o 12 months, authorised the s e t t i n g up of nine Regional
Adjustment and Training Centres and s e t up a National Council on
Rehabilitation.
The increase i n the authorised t r a i n i n g time
w i l l provide f o r more o p p o r t u n i t i e s for the disabled c l i e n t s at the
Barranca Centre and is a great step forward.
The immediate
e f f e c t s of these other amendments t o the o r i g i n a l Vocational
R e h a b i l i t a t i o n Act of 1954 have been inconsiderable as y e t ; but
they do hold a future promise for the widening and improving of
the vocational r e h a b i l i t a t i o n f a c i l i t i e s i n the P h i l i p p i n e s .
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92. Unfortunately, the expert's efforts to persuade the
Manpower Service of the Department of Labour to assume the responsibility for the placement of the disabled, at first from the
Manila Employment Office, were unsuccessful.
This is much to
be regretted as it throws the full responsibility for placement,
which is essentially an Employment Service function, on the
O.V.R. which is not as well equipped or staffed for this purpose
as is the Manpower Service.
No doubt in time this situation will
be rectified, the sooner the better.
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VI.
BECOMMEHDATIONS
93. In spite of what has "been'achieved as a result of this
mission there is still much to he done and many aspects of the
question to be dealt with.
The following recommendations are
therefore made to complete what has already been started and to
help with development and expansion of services to meet future
needs, especially for vocational training.
Some of these points
on which follow-up action is needed have already been indicated
in the text of this report, others are a logical outcome of the
state of development reached so far.
A.
Social Welfare Administration
1.
The Supervisor of the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation
should be allowed to devote his full time to the implementation of
the national rehabilitation programme.
He should not be given
other duties not connected with his official functions.
2.
The Superintendent of the Barranca Centre should be
allowed to devote her full time to the supervision and control of
the centre.
Other extraneous duties unconnected with this task
should not be put on her.
3.
The Office of Vocational Rehabilitation should make
renewed efforts to secure the appointment of a qualified nurse
for the Barranca Centre.
4At least one male vocational counsellor should be
recruited for the Vocational Counselling Section of the Barranca
Centre.
5.
Additional placement officers, at least one of whom
should be a male, should be recruited for the Placement Unit in
the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation.
6.
Further technical training staff are needed at the
Barranca Centre:
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
a sighted instructor for the basketry class to
supervise and assist the two blind assistant
instructors?
an instructor for the carpentry class;
an instructor for the dressmaking class.
When the last appointment has been made it will enable the
tailoring and dressmaking classes to become quite separate.
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7.
A technically qualified person should be appointed to
act as Manager of the Sheltered Workshop at the Barranca Centre.
When this appointment has been made, an expansion of the activities
of the Sheltered Workshop should be aimed at.
8.
The vocational training courses at the Barranca Centre
selected as major courses (agriculture, dressmaking, tailoring,
carpentry and basketry) should be overhauled to see that they
meet the needs of the employment market and are at the right
technical level to ensure adequate preparation of disabled
clients.
New courses should be added when the need is felt and
the opportunity occurs.
9.
The hours of daily training for each trainee in the
major vocational training courses at the Baranca Centre should be
increased to six as soon as possible.
10. The Office of Vocational Rehabilitation should provide
funds in its budget for:
(i) the transportation of clients living in the provinces
to and from Manila;
(ii)
a sum for the purchase of materials and equipment for
clients who need to set up in business on their own
account at the end of their rehabilitation and training.
11. The Office, of Vocational Rehabilitation should consider
the building of a dormitory in connection with the Barranca Centre
to accommodate 50 clients. Better allowances should be given to
those living in lodgings.
12. A Rehabilitation Officer should be assigned on a
permanent basis to each Regional Office of the Social Welfare
Administration as soon as possible.
These officers should be
given allowances to cover their travelling and other expenses
incurred in performing their duties.
13. Caution should be exercised and care taken over the
creation of Regional Training and Adjustment Centres.
These
should be limited to three over the next ten years preferably
situated in Dagupan, Cebu and Zamboanga.
The remaining regional
centres should be set up once the first three have been successfully established and operated and the necessary experience
gained.
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B.
National Orthopaedic Hospital
14. The Department of Health should co-operate with Welfare
Administration with a view to arranging for the Office of
Vocational Rehabilitation to. undertake the vocational rehabilitation of paraplegics and possibly their subsequent employment in
the sheltered workshop at the Barranca Centre.
0•
Bureau of Workmen's Compensation
15• Co-operation between the Bureau, the Office of
Vocational Rehabilitation and the National Orthopaedic Hospital
should become closer and should be strengthened so that everything possible can be done to arrange the rehabilitation of
injured disabled workers.
16. The procedure adopted by the Screening Committee set up
in the Evaluation Division should be simplified and streamlined so
that early decisions on cases suitable for rehabilitation can be
made and applied.
17. More flexibility should be introduced into the uses of
the Rehabilitation Fund so that it can be used for:
(i) the purchase of orthopaedic appliances essential for
rehabilitation and employment purposes;
(ii)
(iii)
the purchase of equipment and materials for starting
small workshops as a necessary item in the rehabilitation of the disabled who will become self-employed;
the transportation of injured and disabled workers
living in the provinces to and from Manila;
(iv) rehabilitation facilities available at any recognised
institution.
D.
Department of Labour
18. The Department of Labour should reconsider its attitude
towards the placement of the disabled.
It should set up a placement service of this kind with experienced and selected staff so
as to co-operate with the Placement Unit of the Office of
Vocational Rehabilitation.
This could be based initially on the
Manila Employment Office and then extended to other employment
offices as experience is gained.
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E.
National Council on Rehabilitation
19. Everything should be done to ensure that the members
of the National Council on Rehabilitation are selected from persons who have an interest and competence in the subject, have
time to attend the meetings and to take an active part in the work
of the council.
P.
Further International Assistance
20. The Government has already indicated that it now wishes
to concentrate future efforts on the vocational training aspects
of the rehabilitation programme.
It has accordingly requested:
(i) the services of an expert on the vocational training
of the disabled;
(ii)
a fellowship for a vocational training instructor.
21. It is recommended that the services of this expert
should be used in order to have advice on the vocational training
of the disabled in general and the extension of appropriate
facilities.
This should include not only the vocational training facilities available at the Barranca Centre and any regional
centres that may have, or may be in course of being, set up,- and
at the National Orthopaedic Hospital, but also any other vocational training facilities to which the disabled have, might
have or should have access. A draft job description for this
expert appears in Appendix 12.
22. It is also recommended that the fellowship requested,
if granted, should be awarded to the Chief Instructor at the
Barranca Centre.
23. Furthermore it is recommended that the Government
should consider the desirability of requesting further fellowships, at a later date, for some of the Rehabilitation Workers
in the Regional and Local Offices of the Social Welfare
Administration and some of the personnel at the proposed Regional
Adjustment and Training Centres.
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APPENDIX 1
Departments, Agencies and Offices in Manila
National Economic Council
Department of Education
Department of Labour
Social Welfare Administration
Pilot Rehabilitation and Training Centre, Office
of Vocational Rehabilitation
Social Security System
National Orthopaedic Hospital
Veterans Memorial Hospital
V. luna General Hospital
Philippine General Hospital
School for the Deaf and Elind
American Foundation for Overseas Blind
Quezon Institute
Don Bosco Vocational School
Rodriguez Vocational School
International Co-operative Administration
Philippine College of Arts and Trades
Philippine College of Commerce
Y.M.C.A.
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APPENDIX 2
Visits made to Offices of Social Welfare Administration
and Department of Labour, Hospitals and Vocational
Schools in the Following Cities and Towns
Town or City
Province
Aparri
Cagayan
Tuguegarao
Cagayan
Baguio
Mountain Province
Dagupan
Pangasinan
Los Banos
Laguna
San Pablo
Laguna
Naga
Camarines Sur
Legaspi
Albay
Cebu
Cebu
Iloilo
Iloilo
Bacolod
Negros Occidental
Davao
Davao
Cotahato
Cotabato
Cagayan de Oro
Mis amis Oriental
Iligan
lanao del Norte
Mar aw i
Lanao del Sur
Zamboanga
Zamboanga
Jolo
Sulu
Bongao
Sulu
Basilan
Zamboanga del Sur
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APPENDIX 3
REPUBLIC ACT No. 1179
AH ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE PROMOTION OP VOCATIONAL
REHABILITATION OP THE BLIND AND OTHER HANDICAPPED
PERSONS AND THEIR RETURN TO CIVIL EMPLOYMENT
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of
the Philippines in Congress assembled:
SECTION 1.
This act may be cited as Vocational Rehabilitation
act.
OBJECTIVES
SECTION 2. (a) To provide for the promotion of vocational
training for the blind and other persons disabled by natural and/or
accidental causes resulting in job handicaps in the form of physical
or mental impairment and their subsequent return from helplessness
to competence, from dependency to self-sufficiency, from hopelessness to active participating and contributing members of society;
(b) To prepare such disabled persons for suitable employment
so as to place them on the right jobs suitable to their abilities
and talents;
(c) To train them to be able to take their rightful place
in the economic and social activities of the country; and
(d) To make available to such persons vocational rehabilitation services as a legal right.
VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION OFFICE
SECTION 3. Creation of.- In order to ensure the most
effective scheme of vocational rehabilitation of the blind and
other handicapped persons to implement the social welfare
program of the government in the amelioration of this deprived
class of society, there is hereby established a Vocational
Rehabilitation Office hereinafter referred to as the Office.
The Office shall be under the executive supervision and control of the Social Y/elfare Administration and shall be headed by
a chief who shall be referred to as supervisor shall be appointed
by the Social Welfare Administrator and shall receive a compensation of five thousand four hundred pesos per annum.
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POWERS AND DUTIES OP THE SOCIAL WELFARE ADMINISTRATOR
SECTION 4.
shall:
Under this act, the Social Welfare Administrator
(a) Designate the Vocational Rehabilitation Office as the
sole agency for the administration, supervision and control of the
Vocational Rehabilitation program;.
(b) Formulate the program, policies and methods in carrying
out the work to render any or all services for the blind and handicapped persons;
(c) Provide that the vocational rehabilitation program be made
available only to classes of employable individuals defined under
this act;
(d) Appoint qualified and technical personnel to carry out
the work of the Vocational Rehabilitation Office as provided herein;
(e) Appoint, subject to civil service rules, such staff
members as may be necessary and proper to carry out this Act.
Said staff members shall be composed of public officials whose
status and conditions of service are such that they are independent
of changes of government and of improper external influences, and
recruited with sole regard to their qualifications; and that such
persons shall be free from political domination and influence, and
that subject to the needs of the service, they shall be assured of
stability of employment in keeping with the highest standards of
personnel administration;
(f) Promulgate rules and regulations governing the administration of this Act; and exercise such powers and delegate such of
these powers, except the making of rules and regulations as he
finds necessary in carrying out the purposes of this Act.
THE VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION PROGRAM
SECTION 5. To effect and facilitate rehabilitation of
disabled individuals, the office shall adopt and maintain a plan,
to be known as Vocational Rehabilitation Plan, which shall be as
follows i
(a) Early start. - The Office shall take care of the prompt
location of the blind and handicapped either by correspondence or
other means, so that rehabilitation may begin before he is unduly
subjected to the disintegrating effects of idleness and
hopelessness.
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(b) Rehabilitation diagnosis. - The Clinic of the Office shall
subject each individual to medical examination, personal interviews
and tests of aptitudes and interests with a view to meeting his
problems and needs, discovering the nature and extent of his
disability, and determining the type of work he might best perform.
These medical examinations may also be secured from hospitals and
other allied government agencies according as each individual case
may require.
(c) Counseling and Guidance. - Each individual shall be given
advice and made to understand by the counselor designated by the
office for each individual of his assets and liabilities, the
causes of his problems and steps necessary to correct these difficulties so as to enable him to adjust to his handicaps and select
the type of job fitted to his abilities.
(d) Medical Service. - Physical restoration, when needed to
remove or reduce disabilities shall be furnished and secured for
the individual by the Office or by other allied government agencies
on behalf of the client.
(e) Vocational Training. - Having selected a specific job
goal through the help and advice of the counselor, the Office shall
furnish the disabled the necessary training and education necessary
to fit them for the chosen work.
(f) Auxiliary Service. - The Office shall provide transportation, books and other training materials, occupational tools,
equipment and licenses when necessary during the period of
vocational rehabilitation.
(g) Placement. - The Office shall secure for each individual
employment best suited to his capacity and talents and for which he
is trained.
(h) Pollow-up. - The Office shall conduct the follow-up on the
individual's job performance for a reasonable time to make whatever
adjustments may be necessary, or to provide further medical,
surgical, and psychiatric care if needed, or to supplement training
if required.
PERSONNEL STANDARD
SECTION 6.
General requirements of personnel of the Office. The officers and staff members of the Office should have a general
knowledge of the adjustment and vocational training for the blind
and other disabled persons. And a knowledge of all the services,
both public and private, available to the blind and other disabled
persons| and must be conversant in the casework techniques incident
to the employment problems of the blind and other handicapped
persons.
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DUTIES AND POWERS OP THE SUPERVISOR
OP THE VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION OPPICE
SECTION 7.
It shall be the duty of the Supervisor;
(a) To supervise and coordinate all rehabilitation services
to the blind and other handicapped persons.
(b) Over-all supervision of the disabled persons undergoing
training in the Adjustment Center.
(c) To advise the different blind and other handicapped
groups and associations in their activities for self-help.
(d) To keep track of the latest progress in rehabilitation
service, of the blind abroad and to direct efforts for the application of such which may be applied to the disabled persons in the
Philippines.
(e) Whenever possible, to render vocational information
service, self-inventory service and counseling service to the
blind and other handicapped persons to help them determine
decisions and plans to improve their lot.
(f) To supervise and arrange the placement to training of
the blind and other handicapped persons to the right job, either
in sheltered workshop, self-employment, or employment with
business or industrial or agricultural countries.
(g) To help maintain public relations especially among the
local, civic, religious and welfare agencies as those abroad.
(h) To help promote cordial relationship and healthy
recreational activities among the organizations of the blind and
other handicapped persons.
(i) To perform such duties as may be assigned to him by the
Social Welfare Administrator from time to time.
SECTION 8. To establish immediately an Adjustment and
Training Center for the disabled persons with the following
characteristics:
(1) A concentrated, individualized program for each client.
(2) The nucleus, at least, of a full-time staff.
This
nucleus shall consist of a rehabilitation specialist who shall
act as supervisor of the Centers qualified vocational counselors
and instructors for the work projects and a property clerk.
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(3) The evaluation, through an "item" approach, of the
individual as a total personality.
(4) Opportunity for participation in a group as a motivating
and learning device.
(5) An organized and systematic program to:
a.
Assist each individual to acquire efficiency into special
techniques necessary to perform the demands of daily living;
b.
Help each individual gain insight into his physical,
psychosocial and vocational needs;
c.
Provide exploratory or try-out work experiences to J
(1) Demonstrate the wide Variety of tasks each individual can
perform;
(2) More thoroughly evaluate the attitudes and skills of
each individual;
(3) Train each individual to perform certain household tasks;
(4) Develop desirable work habits and attitudes;
(5) There is a terminal point for each individual in the
center program;
(6) There is a consolidation of the program experiences by
the "item" to form the basis for future planning with
each individual;
(7)
In general, the Adjustment Center is a process of
developing within the clients a proper perspective
toward his disability, as well as that of developing
certain basic skills of the client in order to compensate for his handicap and loss of normal faculties.
(A) Program flexibility. - Flexibility in the outlined
program may be obtained without sacrificing orderly procedure.
While there must be a general schedule of instruction going on
all the time, there has to be a schedule for an individual that
will meet his needs in line with his capacities, his previous
experiences and his objectives.
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(B) Program "balance. - An individual's program may be kept
in balance through the use of a schedule which will be of maximum
benefit to him.
The formulation of such a schedule will be made
apparent through consideration of diagnostic reports and
proposed objective.
(O) Client introduction to Center. - The introduction of the
client to the center and to the program is of utmost importance
since his first impressions are the most lasting.
All preliminary
reports of the client should be reviewed very carefully by the person who interviews him upon his arrival at the center.
The first
few days should be taken up by a free program of orientation to the
center, both the physical plant and the program.
When more
experienced trainees are available,, the new client should be
assigned to a trainee whose interest and background most closely
parallel his own and through this trainee he will soon become
familiar with the various classrooms and extra curricular
opportunities provided by the center.
A similar procedure can
be adopted for use by centers that serve clients who enter in
groups.
The Adjustment Center should operate eight hours a day, five
instructions days per week for a minimum duration of three months
with individual extensions possible up to a maximum of six
months.
There shall be a gratuity allowance for the trainees
to be fixed by the Social Welfare Administrator, and assigned as
maintenance while in training,
(D) Discharge of clients from Center. - When, through staff
conference it is determined that a client is prepared to accept
vocational training or placement, definite plans are made for his
discharge.
If the counselor or the referral agency, concurs in
the findings of the staff, the trainee is then called in for a
personal conference at which time his entire progress is reviewed
with him.
At this conference also is ascertained his understanding
of his future plans name by the referral agency.
The definite time
of departure is agreed upon, and transportation arrangements are
made.
Any necessary notification to his family, cooperating
persons or agency, is sent.
It is very important that the trainee
have a thorough understanding of his future plans and that he is
satisfied in his own mind that he is ready for the next step in
his rehabilitation program.
(E) Records of Center Program. - The center workshop and
agricultural projects should maintain and preserve service,
employment and other operating records in sufficient detail to
evaluate the capacities and limitations and his needs in relation
thereto, outline his program, chart his progress and record his
ultimate disposition.
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The employment records for each client should show, in addition
to identifying information, the kind of work performed, the hours
worked (daily and weekly), the amount produced, the rate of pay,
the amount earned in cash and otherwise, the date of payment and
the period covered.
The amount of premium pay for overtime work
cash subsidies or other cash assistance, deductions from wages etc.,
should be recorded as separate items.
In addition to the above records, which apply to both homebound clients and those working in the workshop, each homebound
client or a person in the home of a homebound client should
maintain a daily record of work performed.
In addition to the
identifying information such record should show for each workday
the date, the starting and stopping times, the total hours worked,
and the units produced.
This record should be submitted to the
center at stated intervals and should become part of the employment
records.
All employment records should be preserved 'by the center for
at least such periods as may be required by the Social Welfare
Administration.
The center project should have adequate accounting operation,
sales and other records essential to the effective management of
their responsible management board or committee at least quarterly,
Their bocks should be audited annually by a certified public
accountant or government auditor designated for that purpose.
ELIGIBILITY
SECTIOIT 9.
person must:
To be e l i g i b l e for vocational r e h a b i l i t a t i o n a
(a) Be of work age.
(b) Have a substantial job handicap in the form of physical
or mental impairment.
(c) Have a reasonably good chance of becoming employable or
of getting a more suitable job through rehabilitation service.
AVAILABILITY OP FUNDS
SECTION 10. Money to be made available for the purpose of
the Act shall be raised by:
(a) Authorizing the President of the Philippines to set
aside an annual fund raising week to be known as "Aid tc the
Blind and other Handicapped Week".
Money realized from such
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fund raising campaign shall constitute a trust fund to be known
as "Blind and Handicapped Fund" which shall he under the control
and administration of the Social Welfare Administrator.
(b) Authorizing the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office
to hold, coincident with the fund raising week, one special
sweepstake race the whole proceeds of which shall after deducting
the payment of prizes and expenses provided in Act Numbered
Forty-one hundred thirty, as amended by Commonwealth Act Numbered
Five hundred forty-six, be turned over to the Social Welfare
Administrator which shall constitute a part of the said Blind and
Handicapped Fund.
(c) Authorizing the appropriation out of any funds in the
National Treasury not otherwise appropriated any such sums as may
be necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act.
The construction of the Training Center may be drawn from this allocation.
DEFINITIONS
SECTION 11. The following terms as used in this Act have the
following meanings.
(a) Vocational Rehabilitation or rehabilitation services. ~
Any service necessary to render a disabled individual fit to
engage in a remunerative occupation.
(b) Blind. - A person having visual acuity not to exceed
20/200 in the better eye with correcting lenses, or visual acuity
greater than 20/200 but with a limitation in the fields of vision
such that the widest diameter of the visual fields subtends an
angle no greater than twenty degrees.
But a person who is blind
in one eye only, or who has a visual acuity greater than 20/200
without a field defect shall not be considered blind for the
purposes of this Act.
(c) Disabled Person. - Includes not only the blind but also
persons, with substantial job handicap in the form of physical or
mental impairment.
EFFECT IV IT Y
SECTION 12.
APPROVEDs
This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
(SGD) EULOGIO RODRIGUEZ
President of the Senate
(SGD) JOSE LAUREL JR.
Speaker of t h e House
of R e p r e s e n t a t i v e s
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Finally passed by the Senate on May 19, 1954, in consolidation
with Senate Bill No. 143.
(SGD) FIDEL EEUARES
Secretary of the Senate
This Act, which originated in the House of Representatives,
was finally passed by the same on May 18, 1954*
(SGD) NARCIZO PIMENTSL
Secretary of the House
of Representatives
APPROVEDi
11:00 A.M.
June 19, 1954
(SGD) RAMOII MAGSAYSAY •
President of the Philippines
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APPENDIX 4
Office of V o c a t i o n a l Rehab H i t a t i on - C a s e l o a d
f o r the F i s c a l Years 1954-1960
Number of clients registered
1954-1955 "
Blind
Deaf mute
Orthopaedic
Others
106
31
109
47
293
1955-1956
Blind
Deaf mute
Orthopaedic
Others
Statistics
C l i e n t s t r a i n e d and i n r e c e i p t
of a t r a i n i n g ; allowance
1954-1955
Blind
Deaf mute
Orthopaedic
Others
1955--1956
30
8
45
8
1956-1957
Blind
Deaf mute
Orthopaedic
Others
54
11
69
20
1957-1958
Blind
Deaf mute
Orthopaedic
Others
58
22
53
64
197
1957--1958
61
12
82
Blind
Deaf mute
Orthopaedic
Others
1761958-1959
Blind
Deaf mute
Orthopaedic
Others
65
12
75
_2?
181
1£56:-1957
154
Blind
Deaf mute
Orthopaedic
Others
34
184
91
Blind
Deaf mute
Orthopaedic
Others
67
20
63
46
5
64
10
125
1958--1959
60
27
80
-2i
203
Blind
Deaf mute
Orthopaedic
Others
48
16
62
3
129
1959-1960
1959-1960
Blind
Deaf mute
Orthopaedic
Others
GEAND TOTAL
43
19
70
11
143
1,060
Blind
Deaf mute
Orthopaedic
Others
GRAND TOTAI
41
16
51
4
112
928
APPENDIX 5
APPLICATION FORMS - BARRANCA CENTRE
Case N o . V R
Republic of the Philippines
Office of the President
Social Welfare Administration
OFFICE OF VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION
SWA-OVR FORM W o . 1.
(7/1/60)
APPLICATION FOR REHABILITATION AND/OR VOCATIONAL TRAINING
""
(Municipality)
Cross Reference;
Name
Case No.
PA
Cl-J
Region
Category;
(Provincial Office)
(Date of Application)
PRTC Case No;
(Do not complete this)
"(Municipality or City Office)"
(Source of Referral]
(Address of Source)
PART A
Block I - Identifying Data;
1. Name ef Applicant;
(Surname)
(Given Name)
(Other Name)
2. Applicant's Address;
3.
4.
7.
10.
12.
14.
17.
Permanent
Temporary
Parent's or Nearest Relative's Name;
and Address:
.
5. Date of Birth:
6. Place:
Age;
8. Nationality;
9. Religion:
Sex;
11. Position in the Family: Breadeamer
Civil Status;
Dependant
No. of Dependants;
13. Occupation:
1 5 . Nature of Employment: Temporary:_
Monthly Income:
1 6 . Other Sources of Income of Family:
Permanent:
Total Income of Faiiily:
Block II - Educational Background and Training of Applicant:
1 8 . School Attendance:
Highest Grade
Attained
Name and Address of
Last School Attended
Year of
Attendance
Primary
Intermediate
High School
1
College
1 9 . Other Training
]
Type of Training
Where Taken
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Block III - Work Experience:
21.
Jobs Held or Work Engaged in (Start with first)
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PRTC Case No:
(Do not complete this)
Case No. VR
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(Municipality)
(Name of Applicant)
PART B
1. What efforts have been made to resettle applicant without Rehabilitation and
Vocational Training?
2.
Is school placement recommended?
3. What suitable occupations are available locally for applicant?
4. Will rehabilitation and vocational training assist client in local
placement?
5. What social and economic problems do you know which i^ill affect the
applicant during rehabilitation and training?
6. Will previous employment take him back after rehabilitation and
vocational training?
7.
Do you recommend rehabilitation and vocational training?
reasons for recommendations.
Give
8. Will applicant need SWA Transportation Assistance?
9.
Business and home address of applicant's last doctor.
(IMPORTANT: Social Worker should please arrange for an X-ray or fluoroscopic Examination
and findings thereof known before applicant is sent to a medical officer.
Applicant
must have a seven months1 TB Negative Reportto be considered eligible for rehabilitation
services* otherwise a medical certificate need not be executed by a medical officer and
the application need not be sent to the PRTC, OVR.)
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(Name of Applicant)
PART C
(To be completed by applicant's doctor or indicated doctor)
Full name of applicant:
(Surname)"
(Given "Name)
Category?
1.
Date of Injury:
Age at Disablement
2. Description of Disability:
3.
Did the disability arise from any of the following: - Please check - ( ) War,
( ) Industrial Accident, ( ) Disease, ( ) Congenital, ( ) or Other Causes Specify.
(a) Please check - Categories
(Please refer at the back)
4-. When was treatment started?
a. Has treatment been completed?
b.
Or is further treatment necessary?
5. Has he any physical aids or prosthetic appliances?
Does he need any?
6.
Please delete those functions applicant cannot perform: Walking, Sitting, Climbing,
Lifting, Pulling, Stooping, can use his/her fingers independently.
7.
Is there a speech defect?
8.
Is there a hearing defect?
9.
Has he any defect of the eye?
Please check:
( ) Total loss of sight
( ) Partial visual handicap
(Within legal definition)
10.
If the applicant suffers from epilepsy, is it major or minor?
11.
Has he any mental defect?
12.
Has he pulmonary tuberculosis or any other lung ailment?
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(7/1/60)
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Block IV - Veterans1 Status;
22.
Have you served in the Armed Forces?
If YES, Check:
Army
Navy
Air Force
23.
25.
Last Ranks
24. Serial Number:
Reasons for Discharge:
(Attach certified copy of discharge papers)
Is your disability service connected?
Yes
26.
Yes
No
No
Block V - Plans of Applicant:
27.
28.
29.
Are you willing to undergo vocational training?
Yes
No
Does your wife/husband/parent/guardian agree to your going to the SWAOVR Centre for the period of rehabilitation and/or vocational training?
Yes
No
If accepted at the Centre in which trade do you wish to be trained?
First Choice
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Second Choice
.
Block VI - Application for Vocational Rehabilitation:
I, the undersigned would like to apply for the vocational rehabilitation services
which may be necessary to prepare me for employment.
It is understood that information regarding my vocational preparation, medical records, and other personal data
may be released when necessary in developing a rehabilitation plan for me.
I hereby further declare that the above information about myself is true.
(Signature of Applicant)
Residence Tax Certificate
Number
Issued at
Date
NOTED:
(Intake Social Worker)
Note:
Social Worker should attach Part A -Intake Observation and Part B
and Part C - Medical Certificate duly completed before having
this application sent to the Centre.
SWA-OVR Form No. 1
(7/1/60)
Case No. VR
Page
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PRTC Case No;
(Do not complete this)
(Municipality)
1
(Name of Applicant)
PART A - 1
INTAKE INTERVIEW AND OBSERVATION
Dates
APPEARANCES
ATTITUDE;
l)
Towards his problem -
2) Towards his handicap -
3)
Towards the need to request for agency's help -
SWA-OVR Form No. 1
(7/1/60)
PRTC Case No;
(Do not complete this)
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Case No. VR
Page
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(Municipality)
(Name of Applicant)'
13. What is his blood pressure?
After Physical Exertion
a)
Systollic
b)
Diastollic
14.
Apart from his disability as shown above is he otherwise in good health and free
from infectious diseases? (Please see attached laboratory and clinical
examination).
15.
Are there other pertinent findings that may hinder him from undergoing
vocational training? (Specify)
16.
Do you think that rehabilitation/vocational training would benefit the
applicant so as to secure gainful employment?
17.
Recommendation - (Light, Medium* Moderately Heavy, Heavy work).
(Date)
(Signature of Examining Doctor
Name;
(Please Print]"
Provincial Address;
Home Address;
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Republic of the Philippines
Office of the President
Social Welfare Administration
OFFICE OF VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION
Barranca, Quezon City
PART D
(To be completed by the Admission Committee)
Name:
Date:
Category:
1.
I consider this applicant n
on Sligihlp
non-eligible
for
Rehabilitation Vocational Training
(If non-eligible, please state reason)
Medical Officer
Date
2.
I consider this applicant '•^'J^igibie' ^ o r Rehabilitation Vocational Training
(If non-eligible, please state reason)
Chief of Social Service
Date
3.
I consider this applicant
• ^ 1 - g - y e for Rehabilitation Vocational Training
(If non-eligible, please state reason)
Social Welfare Supervisor
Date
PART E
1.
I consider this applicant ^ f r ^ e
for Gratuity
non-eligxble
(If non-eligible, please state reason)
Date:
Chief of Activation
2.
Entered in register of applicants on date:
Case Number:
Accepted/Rejected
Date Local OVR Representative notified of result of application for
entry into Centre
Date:
OVR Superintendent
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OVR - CF - No. 3
Republic of the Philippines
Office of the President
Social Welfare Administration
OFFICE OF VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION
Barranca, Quezon City
APPLICATION NOTICE
To:
Date:
Dear
This is in reply to your application for rehabilitation services at the
Office of Vocational Rehabilitation dated
.
We hereby inform
you that the Admission Committee has approved/rejected your application.
Reasons for approval/rejection:
Yours sincerely,
Intake Worker/Chief Rehabilitation
Clearance Section OVR, PRTC, Quezon
City
NOTE:
For Approved Application:
Upon receipt please complete Reply Slip with enclosed stamped envelope.
Please report at the Intake Section on
,
REPLY SLIP
To
Date:
: Intake Worker/Chief Rehabilitation Clearance Section
OVR, PRTC, Quezon City
Dear
This is to inform you that I received my Application Notice
on
I shall arrive on
at the OVR Centre.
Thank you.
Yours sincerely,
Applicant's Signature
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Republic of the Philippines
Office of the President
Social Welfare Administration
OFFICE OF VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION
Barranca, Quezon City
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APPENDIX 6
Extract from the Government Survey and Reorganisation
Committee's Plan No. 50
ARTICLE VII - OFFICE OF VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION
14. The Office of Vocational Rehabilitation is reorganised
with the following functions:
(a) Administer a program of material or caeh assistance for
indigent physically handicapped who are undergoing vocational
trainingj
(b) Administer a training program for the physically handicapped,
such program to include training in vocational pursuits and
in social adjustment?
(c) Counsel and test physically handicapped to determine their
aptitudes;
(d) Administer a workshop for the physically handicapped with the
dual purpose of training and of production of goods for sale
in private marketing outlets;
(e) Arrange for employment opportunities for the physically
handicapped through placement services and through a public
educational campaign;
(f) Administer a demonstration training center; and
(g) Administer an educational program for adult blind as well as
for children,
15. The Office of Vocational Rehabilitation shall be
financed by appropriations from the General Fund as contained in
the General Appropriation Act.
Functions of the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation
Sec. 19.
The Office of Vocational Rehabilitation shall be
responsible for functions including, but not limited to, those
enumerated in Section 14 of the Plan.
This Office shall establish
policies, standards, rules and regulations for the guidance and
compliance of the field offices to which related social case
studies and follow-up activities are delegated.
Sec. 20. The Office of Vocational Rehabilitation shall have
a Division of Rehabilitation Standards, a Division of Rehabilitation
Services and a Pilot Rehabilitation Training Center.
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Sec. 21. The Division of Rehabilitation Standards shall
have the following functions, among others:
(a) develop training programs for physically handicapped
persons emphasizing vocational rehabilitation;
(b) provide technical guidance and advice to the Pilot Rehabilitation Training Center in carrying out the training program;
(c) review and evaluate operations of the rehabilitation program
and make recommendations for adjustments as may be necessary;
(d)
study and formulate measures for the improvement of the
basic techniques involved in the rehabilitation process;
(e) correlate the rehabilitation program with the over-all
program of the Administration; and
(f) maintain liaison with and draw advice and assistance.from
agencies, both public and private, concerned with the welfare
of physically handicapped persons.
Sec. 22. The Division of Rehabilitation Services shall be
responsible for the development of programs to provide rehabilitation services to the physically handicapped clients of the
Administration.
This Division shall have a Services to the NonBlind Section, a Services to the Blind Section, and Advisement
Services Section and a Placement Services Section.
(a) The Services to the Non-Blind Section shall have the
following functions, among others:
(1)
initiate and develop a program to provide medical,
economic and social services to the physically handicapped clients other than the blind;
(2) review and evaluate field operations in this area for
necessary adjustments in the program; and
(3) provide policy guidance and consultative services to
personnel concerned in the field offices.
(b) The Services to the Blind Section shall have the following
functions, among others;
(1) initiate and develop a program to provide medical,
economic, and social services to the physically
handicapped clients who are blind;
(2)
review and evaluate field operations in this area for
adjustments in the program as may be necessary; and
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(3) provide policy guidance and consultative services to
personnel concerned in the field offices.
The Advisement Services Section shall have the following
functions, among others?
(1)
initiate and develop plans and programs for aptitude
testing of physically handicapped clients, including
counselling and advisement services, to assist them
in their vocational adjustment problems;
(2) review and evaluate field operations in this area for
necessary adjustments in plans and programs; and
(3)
provide policy guidance and consultative services to
personnel concerned in the field offices.
The Placement Services Section shall have the following
functions, among others:
(1) develop a program for placement of physically
handicapped people;
(2)
encourage and develop employment opportunities for
the physically handicapped through public contacts and
educational campaigns;
(3) maintain liaison with employers hiring rehabilitated
physically handicapped persons for post-placement
review; and
(4) provide policy guidance and consultative services in
this area to personnel concerned.
Sect. 23.
The Pilot Rehabilitation Training Center shall
the following functions, among others;
(1) Administer the training program for the physically
handicapped, including training in vocational pursuits
and in social adjustment;
(2) administer a workshop for the physically handicapped
with dual purpose of training and of production of
goods for sale in private marketing outlets;.
(3)
certify and recommend trained physically handicapped
for employment opportunities through the placement
services^ and
(4)
conduct follow-up of the physically handicapped who
have undergone training in the Center for their
complete social adjustment.
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APPENDIX 8
SOCIAL WELFARE ADMINISTRATION
OFFICE OF VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION
Organisation of the Pilot Rehabilitation and Training Centre. Barranca
Pilot Rehabilitation
and Training Centre
1 Superintendent
1 Secretary
General Service
1 Caretaker
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1 Casework
Supervisor
Property
Property Clerk
Vocational
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1 Chief Ihst,
Intake Service
1 Senior Intake
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1 Junior Intake
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Medical Social Service
1 Medical Social
Worker
Social Casework Service
16 Social Workers
Vocational Counselling
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1 Senior Vocational
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1 Junior Vocational
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Psychological Testing
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1 Guidance
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Agriculture Class
1 Agriculturist
Garment Trade
Instruction
1 Garment Trade
Instructor
1 Tailoring Inst.
Carpentry Class
1 Carpentry Inst.
Basketry Class
1 Basketry Inst.
Brickmaking
1 Client Tutor
Metal Work
1 Instructor
Typing Class
1 Instructor
English I and II
1 Instructor
Braille Class
2 Instructors
Knitting Needle Craft
1 Instructor
Coco-coir Project
1 Instructor
Travel Technique Class
.1 Instructor
Daily Home Living
1 Instructor
Harmonics Class
1 Instructor
Sheltered
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1 Workshop
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Social Hour
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Group Leaders
Citizenship Training
1 Unit In-charge
Group Instructors
Group Leaders
Adapted Physical
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Group Instructors
Group Leaders
Library Services
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Medical
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APPE2DIX 9
FUMCTI0M5 OF THE PILOT H E M E I LI TAT I OF AM) TRAININGCENTRE. BARRANCA
(A) Administers the training programme for the disabled,
including training in vocational pursuits and in social
adjustments.
(B) Administers a workshop for the disabled with the dual
purpose of providing specialised training and terminal
employment.
(C) Certifies and rocommends, through the Placement Services,
trained disabled persons for employment opportunities.
(D) Conducts follow up of disabled who have undergone
training in. the Centre for their complete social
adjustment.
(E) Reviews and evaluates procedures in co-operation and in
co-ordination with the Rehabilitation Standards Division
and the Rehabilitation Services Division.
(p) Provides social work students with field experience and.
practical application of theoretical knowledge about
vocational rehabilitation.
(G)
The Pilot Rehabilitation Training Centre provides the
following servicess Social Services, Vocational Training,
Medical Services, Special Services and Sheltered Workshop.
SOCIAL SERVICE
(A) Conducts intake service where pertinent data are gathered
to determine client's eligibility for the services;
determines client's needs, problems and interprets
Centre's needs.
Vocational evaluation is provided by
work samples and job-task testing.
(B) Assists in solving family personal problems; interprets
results of evaluation of rehabilitation team to client
and his family; aids in adjustment of client and his family;
conducts intensive casework; aids in adjustment of client
to his disability, to treatment, to environment and to
vocational programmes; arranges referrals to appropriate
communitjr re-sources; works on placement in co-ordination
with the Placement Officer.
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(C) Provides psychological services to determine client's
ability and aptitudes.
(D) Possesses the physical restoration and other medical
assistance needed by the client.
(E) Assists client with his financial problems whilst in
active training through the gratuity assistance.
(P) Provides vocational counselling services to ascertain
educational background, former occupation and the kind
of work in which he would like to be trained.
(&) Assists in the establishment of the client's rehabilitation plan.
SPECIAL SERVICES
(A) Provide a recreational, citizenship and leadership training
programme to give disabled persons experience of group
and other social activities whilst undergoing vocational
training.
(B) Supervises study hour, social hour, student government,
and adapted physical education.
SHELTERED WORKSHOP
(A)
Provides renumerative employment for eligible clients
until such time as arrangements are made for open
placement.
(B) Provides terminal employment for those who by the nature
of their handicap are unable to work in competitive
industry and those who work best under close supervision.
(C)
Provides work therapy, on-the-job training, develops
work tolerance and work habits under competitive
pressures.
JOB DESCRIPTIONS
Job descriptions of the Superintendent, Rehabilitation
Medical Officer, Casework Supervisor and Chief Instructor are
attached.
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SPPERHSTTENDENT
(1
Takes charge of all technical and administrative work in
the Pilot Rehabilitation and Training Centre.
(2
Directs and co-ordinates services in the P.R.T.C. in order
that clients may "benefit as much as possible from the
programme.
(3
Execute policies and regulations and work plans as adopted.
(4
Reviews and evaluates procedures and operations in the
P.R.T.C. in co-ordination with Rehabilitation Standards Division
and Rehabilitation Services Division.
Evaluates'cases of the P.R.T.C, as member of the rehabilitation team.
(5
(6
Certifies and recommends trained disabled persons for
employment opportunities.
(7
Conducts periodic inspection of the Centre.
(8
Is responsible for personnel management of the Centre:
(a) gives administrative decisions on personnel problems
within the limit of his authority;
(b) approves applications of the staff for maternity,
sickness and vacation leave.
(9
Conducts correspondence with other agencies.
(10
Submits periodic report to the O.V.R. Supervisor about'
the accomplishments, problems and needs of the P.R.T.C.
(11
Requisitions materials needed at the Centre.
(12
Controls the proper distribution of equipment and supplies
it to the different sections and projects of the Centre.
(13
Maintains public relations.
(14
Meets visiting officials.
(15
Supervises construction of the Centre which is still in
progress, including screening of requisitions, purchases
and deliveries.
(16) Performs such other function as may be assigned.
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Special Assignments
(1) Assists in the preparation of the proposed budget of the
O.V.R.
(2) Assists in the interpretation of the budget and the
programme to the Budget Commission, General Auditing
Office and Congress.
Notes;
This and the following job description were prepared
by the Rehabilitation Standards Division of the O.V.R.
September 1960.
REHABILITATION MEDICAL OFFICER
Studies and interprets the medical referrals and requests
completed by local doctors.
Conducts medical and physical examinations of clients
upon admission to the Centre.
Suggests necessary referral or request to different
specialists of government or private hospitals for
proper diagnosis, evaluation and treatment if necessary.
Diagnoses and treats clients, staff members and their
dependants in the clinic.
Advises the vocational counsellor on the physical
capacities and work tolerance of the clients.
Participates in all meetings of the rehabilitation team
in formulating or following up the clients' rehabilitation
plan.
Conducts periodic and continuous medical and physical
check-ups of these clients during training.
Advises
on physical activities suitable for clients.
Advises clients when discharged on how to take proper
care of themselves in co-ordination with the respective
social workers.
Visits hospitals and confers with the appropriate
authorities about the different laboratory requests
or referrals for proper co-ordination if necessary.
Performs home visits if very necessary and upon
recommendation of the social worker.
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(11) Communicates with the proper health authorities, either
by letter or personal contact, with permission of the
administration in case of reportable diseases.
(12) Inspects health facilities in work areas, buildings and
other premises of the Centre to see that they provide
adequate means of prevention of any hazards.
(13)
Issues medical certificates to clients and staff members
of the O.V.R. upon request.
(14) Attends evaluation meetings in other rehabilitation
agencies when deemed advisable.
(15) Makes periodic reports about the accomplishments,
problems and needs of the Medical Section to the
Superintendent of the Centre.
(16) Attends regular staff meetings.
(17)
Performs such other functions as may be assigned.
• CASEWORK SUPERVISOR
(1) Supervises Intake Service, Medical Social Services,
"Vocational Counselling Services, Psychological Testing
Services at the Pilot Rehabilitation and Training
Centre of the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation,
Social Welfare Administration, Barranca, Quezon City.
(2) Assigns cases to social case workers in accordance with
the problems, needs and interests of the clients.
(3)
Supervises social caseworkers in their continuity of
service to client through adequate and up-to-date
case recordings of action talc en.
(4) Holds individual regular case conferences with each social
caseworker to discuss workers' problems, the action taken,
the plans and other pertinent problems.
Suggests procedures to be followed and possible sources of assistance.
(5) Presides in the evaluation of cases as chairman of
Rehabilitation Team,
Together with the members of the
team assists in the interpretation of psychological
testing results, vocational counsellor's recommendation,
reports from Chief Instructor and results of medical
examination with a view to the formulation of the
rehabilitation plan for the client*
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(6)
Studies and schedules cases for evaluation'in accordance
with the working procedures of the P.R.T.C.
(7) As member of the admission team of the P.R.T.C. studies
and recommends cases for active and vocational training
and other rehabilitation services.
(8) Arranges regular monthly meeting of social caseworkers.
Special speakers on assigned topics are invited to
acquaint the social workers with the latest trend in
social work and rehabilitation.
(9) Confers with Supervisor, P.R.T.C. officials and other
divisions, agencies, regarding common problems and
follows up difficult or unusual cases.
(10)
Makes consolidated narrative report regarding social
services rendered to clients, submitted to the
Administration, P.R.T.C.
(11) Assists Administration in all assignments and reassignments of workers within her field of supervision.
(12) Performs such other functions as may be assigned.
CHIEF INSTRUCTOR
JOB DESCRIPTION
(1)
Supervises and co-ordinates instructions at the
Vocational Training Section of the Office of Vocational
Rehabilitation.
This training section is composed of
classes offering the four major courses; thirteen minor
courses; two courses for the blind and five required
activities.
(2) Assists Rehabilitation Standards Division in formulating
policies, objectives and work plans for the section,
through the Supervisor, P.R.T.C.
(3) Prepares the cou.rse of study for commercial crafts which
is adapted to the limited abilities of the disabled
students.
Supervises clients' activities in course.
(4) Undertakes research for effective vocational instruction.
Observes instructors' teaching methods said gives comments
and suggestions for improvement.
(5) Prepares progress reports for the evaluation of individual
trainees in the Training Section in co-operation with
their respective instructors.
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Confers with other members of the rehabilitation team in
evaluating cases.
Co-ordinates with Casework Supervisor in problem cases.
Represents the Training Section at the Rehabilitation
Team in planning and in following up the vocational
courses'for the rehabilitation plans of each disabled
trainee.
Attends to changes of clients' schedules as approved
by the Rehabilitation learn.
Collates all reports of each instructor and makes the
over-all monthly report'on the Training Section to the
Superintendent* P.R.T.C.
Requisitions supplies, equipment and materials for the
training sections and'distributes them upon request to
the different classes.
Prepares budget estimates for the Training Section's
operations and submits this to the Sliperintendent.
Attends to visitors making observation tours of the
Training Section.
As a member of the School Placement Committee, in
specific assignments at the parochial schools said
vocational schools looks for schools that could aid
disabled trainees in carrying out specialised courses
which are temporarily not given by the Centre.
Also
visits trainees'in schools and assists in their evaluation
and advancement.
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APPENDIX 10
H. No. 3082
FOURTH CONGRESS
OP THE
REPUBLIC OP THE PHILIPPINES
SECOND SPECIAL SESSION
Begun and held in the City of Manila on Monda^r,
the first day of June, nineteen hundred and fifty-nine
/REPUBLIC ACT No. 26157
AN ACT TO AMEND CERTAIN SECTIONS OP REPUBLIC ACT NUMBERED
ONE THOUSAND ONE HUNDRED SEVENTY-NINE,'ENTITLED "AN ACT
TO PROVIDE POR THE PROMOTION OP VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION
OP THE BLIND AND OTHER HANDICAPPED PERSONS AND THEIR
RETURN TO CIVIL EMPLOYMENT", AND TO CREATE A NATIONAL
COUNCIL ON REHABILITATION
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of
the Philippines in Congress assembled:
SECTION 1, Subsection (b), section seven of Republic Act
Numbered One thousand one hundred seventy-nine, is amended to
read as follows;
"(b) Over-all supervision of the Pilot Adjustment and
Training Center and ail the regional training centers that may
be established."
SEC. 2.
The second paragraph of subsection (c), section
eight of Republic Act Numbered One thousand one hundred seventynine, is amended to read as follows:
"The Pilot Adjustment and Training Center a.nd the regional
training centers that may be established shall operate eight
hours a day, five instruction days -ger week for a minimum
duration of three months with individual extension possible up
to a maximum of twelve months."
SEC. 3.
Two new sections are inserted after section eight
of Republic Act Numbered One thousand one hundred seventy-nine
to read as follows:
"REGIONAL TRAINING CENTERS
"SEC. 8-A (l) Creation - To ensure that vocational rehabilitation services shall benefit the blind and other handicapped
in the provinces, there shall be established, in addition to
the now existing Pilot Adjustment and Training Center at
Barranca, Cubao, Quezon City, according to the period hereinafter
specified suitable regional adjustment and training centers for
vocational rehabilitation, as follows:
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"For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixty, Region
No. 1, comprising the provinces of Ilocos Sur, Ilocos Norte,
Abra, La Union, Mountain Province, Pangasinan, Zambales, Tarlac
and the cities of Baguio and Dagupan, possibly in the regional
headquarters at Dagupan City; and Region No. 7, comprising the
Provinces of Misamis Occidental, Zamboanga del Sur, Zamboanga del
Norte and' Sulu and the cities of Zamboanga, Gzamis and Basilan,
possibly in the regional headquarters at Zamboanga City.
"For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixty-one,
Region No. 4, comprising the provinces of Camarines Norte,
Camarines Sur, Albay, Sorsogon, Catanduanes and Masbate and the
City of Naga, possibly in the regional headquarters at Naga City;
and Region No. 5, comprising the provinces of Negros Occidental,
Romblon, Antique, Capiz, Aklan and Iliolo and the cities of
Bacolod, Roxas and Iloilo, possibly in the regional headquarters
at Iloilo City;
"For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixty-two,
Region No. 2, comprising the provinces of Cagayan, Isabela,
Nueva Vizcaya and Batanes, possibl^r in the regional headquarters at Tuguogarao, Cagayan; and Region No. 8, comprising
the provinces of Suricao, Bukidnon, Misamis Oriental, Lanao,
Agusan, the cities of Davao, Butuan, Cagayan de Oro and Marawi,
possibly in the regional headquarters at Cagayan de Oro City;
and Region No. 9, comprising the provinces of Cotabato and
Davao and the cities of Davao and Cotabato in the regional
headquarters at Davao City.
"For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixty-three,
Region No. 3, comprising the provinces of Nueva Ecija, Pampanga,
Bulacan, Bataan, Rizal, Quezon, Cavite, Laguna, Batangas,
Oriental Mindoro, Occidental Mindoro, Marinduqe and Palawan
and the cities of Cabanattian, Pasay, San Pablo, Tagaytay,
Cavite, Trece Martires, Lipa, Quezon and Manila, possibly in
San Pablo City; and Region No. 6, comprising the provinces
of Negros Oriental, Bohol, Leyte, Samar and Cebu and the cities
of Cebu, Dumaguete, Calbayog, Tacloban and Ormoc, possibly in
the regional headquarters at Cebu City.
"(2) The establishment of these regional adjustment and
training centers shall be at the cost of at least fifty
thousand pesos each and shall be patterned after that of the
first pilot project now in operation.
The funds for these
constructions may be drawn from the fiduciary funds of the
Office of Vocational Rehabilitation.
And the operating
expenses of all existing rehabilitation centers under the
Office of Vocational Rehabilitation shall be incorporated in
the General Appropriation Act to be marked as 'Special
Purposes for Vocational Rehabilitation'.
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"(3 The following'shall compose the nucleus of the staff
for such regional centers with, the corresponding compensation:
"(a
One superintendent, at ^3,984 per annum, range P43
"(b
One clerk, at #1,476 per annum, range P23
"(c
One intake social worker, at ^1,884 per annum,
range P28
"(d
One social worker, at ^1,884 per annum, range P28
"(e
One homebound social worker, at £'1,884 per annum,
range P28
"(f
Two vocational counselors, at 1*1,884 per annum,
range P28
"(g
One part-time physician, at ^1,800 per annum,
range P27
"(h
One chief instructor, at ^3,108 per annum, range
P38-40
"(i
One Braille instructor, at ^1,716 per annum,
range P24-32
"(3
One travel technique instructor at ^1,716 per
annum, range P24-32
"(k
One craft instructor, at ^1,716 per annum, range
P24-32
"(1
One rural project instructor, at Pi,716 per annum,
P24-32
'(m
One clerk-laborer, at ^1,152 per annum, range
P18
"(n
One caretaker, at ^1,152 per annum, range P18
"(o
One guard-driver, at ^1,440 per annum, range P22
"The compensation for the staff of the regional centers
shall be drawn from the fiducia^ fund of the Office of
Vocational Rehabilitation which are its net proceeds from the
Philippine Charity Sweepstakes draw as stipulated in section
ten (b) of Republic Act Numbered One thousand one hundred
seventy-nine.
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"NATIONAL COUNCIL OP REHABILITATION
"SEC. 8-B. (a) Creation - In order to have a central body
to coordinate activities relating to all phases of rehabilitation
of handicapped persons, there is hereby established a National
Council on Rehabilitation, hereinafter referred to as the
Council.
"The Council shall have fifteen members composed as follows:
"The first six members shall be nominated by the heads of
the following Government agencies; Department of Health;
Department of Education; Department of Labor; Department of
National Defense; Social Welfare Administration and the Social
Security System, which shall be referred to as Group I.
"Under Group II, shall be four representatives from
medical, educational, scientific and legislative fields; four
representatives from civic, financial, industrial, labor
organizations, and one representative from radio and press.
"All these fifteen members shall be appointed by the
President to compose the National Council on Rehabilitation.
"(b) Term of Office - Each appointed member of the Council
shall hold office for a term of four years, except that any
member appointed to fill a vacancy occurring prior to the
expiration of the term for which his predecessor is appointed
shall be appointed for the remainder of such term; and except
that, of the members first appointed, Group I shall enjoy four
years of office, members of Group II shall be appointed with
three holding office, for three years, another three for two
years and the next three for one year as designated by the
President at the time of appointment.
"None of these members shall be eligible for reappointment
until a year has elapsed after the end of his preceding term;
however, the six members from Group I shall enjoy eligibility
of reappointment to ensure continuity and direction of program
without the stipulated one year provision.
"(c) Duties and Functions - It shall.be the duty and
function of the Council;
11
(l) To formulate policies regarding rehabilitation of
the handicapped in the Philippines;
"(2) To help provide proper coordination of existing
rehabilitation programs so as to extend maximum services to the
blind and other handicapped persons and to prevent or minimize
overlapping of services.
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"(3) To help determine standards and criteria for all
organizations and agencies engaged in rehabilitation work, whether
governmental or voluntary;
"(4) To formulate rules and regulations to implement the
purposes for which the council has been established;
"(5) To initiate appropriate actions, including legal, for
any violation of such rules and regulations which shall be
promulgated;
"(6) To initiate research on rehabilitation;
"(7) To compile- statistics on the following?
"(aa) Consus of handicapped individuals in the
Philippines in relation to number and
classification;
"(bb) Census of rehabilitation facilities;
"(cc) Census of rehabilitation needs;
"(dd) Census of already qualified handicapped
workers; and
"(ee) Census of employment opportunities;
"(8) To conduct and supervise campaigns to raise fund as
provided for in section ten (a) of Republic Act Numbered one
thousand one hundred seventy-nine; and
"(9) To submit annual report to Congress.
"(d) Chairman - The fifteen members of the Council shall
appoint its chairman 'by democratic process from among its members
within fifteen days from the date of appointment while meeting
in banc.
"(e) Executive Secretary - The Council is also empowered to
appoint an executive secretary outside of its members by s,
majority vote.
The executive secretary shall be paid an annual
compensation of five thousand four hundred pesos which shall be
drawn from the fiduciary fund of the Office of Vocational
Rehabilitation which are its net proceeds from the Philippine
Charity Sweepstakes draw a.s stipulated in section ten (b) of
Republic Act Numbered One thousand one hundred seventy-nine, and
shall possess the following qualifications; At least five years
experience with accepted competence in rehabilitation work, at
least a four-year college course graduate and with good moral
standing.
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"(f) Compensation of the members of the Council - The members
of the Council which shall meet at least six (6) times a year
shall receive no compensation, hut shall he entitled to an
honorarium not exceeding twen^-five pesos per meeting; and shall
also be entitled to receive an allowance for actual and necessarytraveling and subsistence expenses while so servijig away from their
places of business."
SEC. 4.
This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
Approved,
August 1, 1959
EULOGIC RODRIGUEZ
President of the Senate
Finally passed by the
Senate on May 21, 195So
FIDEL H. HECTARES
Secretary of the Senate
DAL7IAL Z. ROMUALDEZ
Speaker of the House of
Representatives
This Act, which originated
in the House of Representatives,
was finally passed by the same
on July 2, 1959.
BTOCEITCIO B. PAREJA
Secretary of the House of
Representatives
Approved:
CARLOS P. GARCIA
President of the Philippines
002341
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APPENDIX 11
FUNCTIONS AND ORGANISATION OP REGIONAL ADJUSTMENT
AND TRAINING CENTRES
FUNCTIONS;
The functions of the Regional Training Centre are
similar to those of the Pilot Rehabilitation and
Training Centre and trill provide social services
and vocational training for the blind and other
physically-handicapped persons in their respective
regions.
PROCEDURE FOR APPLICATION AND ADMISSION
0F_0.V.R. "CLIENTS TO THE REGIONAL CENTRE
I.
Eligibility Requirements
To be eligible for vocational rehabilitation a person musts
1.
Have a substantial job handicap in the form of physical or
mental impairment.
2.
Be of working age.
3.
Have a reasonably good chance of becoming employable or
of getting a more suitable job through rehabilitation
service.
4.
Be willing to undergo vocational training.
II.
Intake•
1.
Applicant who presents himself at the centre is referred
to the intake worker where he is asked to fill up the
required forms.
If unable to complete the forms, the
intake worker assists him.
2.
From the intake worker where Part A of the application form
is completed, client's application is referred to the
social worker who makes a home visit, subsequent visits
and follow ups, the purposes of which are to gather
collateral information needed in filling up Part B of the
application form to complete case study.
3.
Simultaneously, social worker, after explanation to the
client of the purposes, makes the referral to the medical
officer for the completion of Part C of the application
form.
4.
The social worker completes the case study of client and
consolidates the application form - Parts A, B, C.
Application is then sent to the Admission Team for their
comments and approval.
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5.
The Admission Team, which is composed of the medical officer
and the superintendent of the centre will meet and discuss
with the social worker the case presented.
Accepted - If the case is accepted, the superintendent
registers the case and through the intake worker sends
notice to the applicant informing him of the approval and
the appropriate date he has to report at the centre.
Rejected - If the case is rejected, the superintendent
registers the case as rejected and through the intake worker
sends notice to the applicant informing him of the rejection
and the reasons for it.
(The Admission Team completes Part D of the application
form.)
III. Activation
A.
Classification of clients: Clients at the centre will he
classified into two groups: active clients and the special
clients.
1.
All newly-registered clients duly certified by the
Admission Team as eligible for vocational training
shall he considered active clients.
They shall,
however, he classified into: active clients without
gratuity, active clients with gratuity and clients on
specialised training.
(a)
Active clients without gratuity entitlement are
those who are financially able to maintain and
support themselves while undergoing vocational
training.
(b) Active clients with gratuity entitlement are
those who are eligible to enjoy the benefit of
gratuity during the training period due to
inadequate income.
(c) Clients on specialised training are those who
have undergone a training period but who are
reactivated later owing to the need for
specialised training at the centre.
2.
Special clients
(a) those who are given special services other than
training.
Services provided are material
assistance, medical and homebound services,
counselling and placement, and
—
Ib
(b) those who have finished their vocational training
but whose placement is still pending.
Sheltered
workshop facilities on piecemeal compensation are
provided for them.
Gratuity Entitlement
1.
The social worker assigned to the client should prepare
the following necessary forms;
(a) Application Form (Parts A, B, C, D)
(b) Form for Gratuity Entitlement
(c)
Case summary of client.
2.
All the requisite forms specified above must be
completed at noon or before the last Friday or the
last preceding office day of the month at the
superintendent's office for processing and inclusion
in the list of active clients for the next month.
3.
List of active clients must be presented to the staff
for comments.
This includes;
(a) active clients with gratuity ?
(b) active clients without gratuity;
(c)
clients on specialised training.
4.
The effective date of active clients with gratuity
entitlement begins on the first regular working day
of the following month when all forms are duly
completed and the gratuity entitlement recommendation
had been approved by
.
5.
Amount of gratuity benefits;
Active clients eligible for gratuity receive three
pesos (^3.00) for the first month of active training
(daily) and two pesos (^2.00) a day for the next
succeeding months.
Duration of Training
1.
For both the active clients and those on specialised
training the duration of training shall be eight (8)
hours a day, five (5) instruction days per week for
a maximum period provided for by the law.
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Record of attendance; Active clients" names should be
contained in a record of attendance.
This will record
attendance, undertime and absences.
Undertime - penalty of a proportionate deduction from
the daily gratuity.
Absences
- unless excused, the client will forfeit the
corresponding day's gratuity,
Extension of training for active clients with a minimum
of six months' activation.
(a) Social worker shall file a request for her active
client for an extension of another six months,
in the form prescribed for the purpose, to
administration.
(b) The form must be filed five days before but not
later than five days after the expiration of said
six months' period.
(c) Failure of the social worlcer to comply with the
requisite forms shall mean the cancellation of
the name of the active client from both the
record of attendance and pajrroll.
Note;
The Rehabilitation Tean shall examine all
requests for extension and recommend appropriate
action.
Postponement of training shall last for a period of
not more than six months, except in the case of medical
treatment when postponement is indefinite.
(a) The following reasons may cause postponement;
(1) Medical treatment - when medical treatment
is necessary a medical certificate should
be secured.
(2)
School placement— (other than vocational
training) a certificate from the principal
of the school showing admission of the client
is important.
(3) Placement - a certificate from the management
of the establishment would be needed.
In other cases, an explanatory letter from the client's
social worker would suffice.
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(b) Request for postponement;
(1) Postponement form must be completed by the
social worker.
(2) Tills must be presented to the Rehabilitation
Team and be forwarded to the superintendent
for approval.
(3)
5.
Active clients enjoying gratuity benefits
shall be removed from the payroll during the
postponement period.
Clearance'
(a)
Clients enjoying gratuity benefits must, upon
completion of prescribed period of training,
complete the necessary clearance form, otherwise
their gratuity for the last allotment shall be
withheld.
(b) Non-gratuity clients shall, upon the termination
of the period of training, likewise complete and
submit a certificate of clearance to the
superintendent.
IMPORTANT;
Requirements for clients on specialised training
will be the same as that of the Pilot
Rehabilitation Training Centre.
Rehabilitation Plan
Exploratory period;
(a) On one of the initial days of the exploratory period
the social worker refers the client to the chief
instructor for testing on the different vocational
projects.
After the testing, a list of projects is
recommended by the chief instructor, based upon the
choice of the client; this list must give the client
enough projects to choose from.
(b) The client is then examined liy the medical officer of
the centre to determine his physical fitness for the
projects he plans to take.
(c) After the vocational orientation and medical examination, the client goes back to the social worker and
presents the list of projects suitable for him as
certified bjr the doctor.
(d) The client is then referred by the social worker to
the chief instructor for scheduling.
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(e)
In the course of his training, during the exploratory
period, the client is referred to the vocational
counsellor who will interview him to find out about
his education, former occupation, the kind of work he
would like to be trained in, etc.
(f) The vocational counsellor then refers the client to
the psychologist for a battery test.
Before testing,
the counsellor will confer with the psychologist
regarding the client's plan and state clearly what he
wants to know about the client.
iifter the tests have
been conducted, the psychologist will discuss the
tests' results with the vocational counsellor who
thereafter presents a tentative plan to the social
worker.
Meanwhile, the social worker continues her
study, observation and follow-up of the client's
progress in his exploratory period.
(g) The tentative plan should be presented to the client
in case the client disagrees; if he disagrees, he
is referred back, to the vocational counsellor for
further counselling.
(h) After two to four weeks of training, the social worker
submits the case study with the tentative plan to the
superintendent before it is scheduled for presentation
to the Rehabilitation Team to determine the final
rehabilitation plan for the client.
2.
Rehabilitation Teai:
(a) The members of the Rehabilitation Team vrill meet and
discuss the tentative plan of the client.
The team
shall be composed of the following?
(1
Superintendent - chairman
(2
Social worker of the client
(3
Chief instructor
(4
Vocational counsellor and psychologist
(5
Vocational counsellor and placement officer
(6
Medical officer.
When vital to the plan, the superintendent may ask
other members of the staff to attend.
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(b) After the meeting of the Rehabilitation Team, the social
worker will have another conference with the client and
will present the decision of the team - in case the
client was not present during the meeting.
(c)
If they both agree on the plan, a permanent schedule
will be made.
(d) During the client's active training, the social worker
continues the follow up to see if the plan is being
carried out.
When necessary, the case will be
presented to the Rehabilitation Team for discussion.
(e) The case is again discussed by the team in his third
month of training.
A final review of the case is made
before he terminates training.
(f) The case is finally referred to the vocational
counsellor - placement officer for placement.
(Prepared by: REHABILITATION STANDARDS DIVISION, O.V.R.,
October 1960)
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REGIONAL TRAINING CENTRES
PERSONNEL ORGANISATION CE'iRT
1
1
1
1
Superintendent
Clerk
Caretaker
Guard/Driver
1
Social
Service
1
1
1
1
i
Medical Service
Part-time
Physician
Intake Worker
Social Worker
Homebound Worker
Vocational Counsellor
(Placement Officer)
1 Psychologist Vocational Counsellor
j Vocational
j Training
j1 Chief
j Instructor
1 Braille Instructor
1 Travel Technique
Instructor
1 Craft Instructor
1 Rural Project
Instructor
o lerlc Labourer
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REGIONAL TRAINING CENTRES
PLOW CHART
from other.
nReferrals
Agencies and Provinces
Regional Centres
Intake Worker
Sooial Worker
Medical Officer
Admission Team
Siiperintendent
Intake Worker
Social Worker
Chief Instructor
Medical Officer
Chief Instructor
Vocational Counsellor
Psychologist
u_„
Rehabilitation Team
—
Social Worker*
Placement Officer
* Same social worker as the first one
APPENDIX 12
Draft Job Description for I.I.O. Expert
Post:
Expert
General Field:
Vocational Training of the Disabled, including
the Blind
Operational HQ:
Manila area
Duration:
12 months
When Required:
October 1961
Duties:
To advise the Government, especially the
Departments of Education, Health and labour and
the Social Welfare Administration on the
vocational training of the disabled and the
extension of appropriate facilities in this regard.
Particular attention will be devoted to the
vocational training workshops at the Pilot
Rehabilitation and Training Centre, Barranca,
Quezon City, and any other regional rehabilitation
centres which may be set up by the Office of
Vocational Rehabilitation, Social Welfare
Administration.
The expert's duties will include:
(i) an examination of existing vocational training
facilities for the disabled and how these might
best be co-ordinated, improved and extended;
(ii) advice on the establishment of further or
alternative training courses and the utilisation
of new equipment;
(iii) preparation of revised training programmes
and syllabi;
(iv) advice on up-to-date methods of workshop
practice, inspection and supervision\
(v) advice on the selection of suitable vocational
training staff, especially workshop instructors,
and on the training of this staff;
(vi) advice on the practical work, testing and
assessment of disabled persons.
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Qualifications5
(i) Sound general and technical education with
an engineering background;
(ii) experience of the organisation and administration of programmes of vocational training for
the disabled, including the blind, and the
selection of suitable training trades?
(iii) wide practical experience of the organisation,
lay-out, management etc. of vocational
training centres or schools for the disabled.
(iv) Experience in the selection and training of
staff.
language;
English essential.