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2005 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

Study on the effect of work activities out side workshop for promotion of employment of persons with disabilities

Research Project

Project/Area Number 16592117
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field Fundamental nursing
Research InstitutionSaitama Prefectural University

Principal Investigator

ASAHI Masaya  Saitama Prefectural University, Associate professor, 保健医療福祉学部社会福祉学科, 助教授 (30315717)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) MARUYAMA Ichiro  Saitama Prefectural University, Professor, 教授 (50315727)
Project Period (FY) 2004 – 2005
Keywordssheltered workshops / out of workshop activities / Self Reliance Act for Persons with disabilities / open employment / sheltered employment / supported employment / services of transition / services of sheltered employment
Research Abstract

In order to grasp the situation and tasks for further development of out of workshop activities from the point of promotion of transition of persons with disabilities into open labor market, the survey for the all sheltered workshops in Japan was conducted. And hearing from several workshops which they experienced the trial activities for the promotion of employment of the client through out of workshop activities were conducted. A case study was also done by the participatory observation in one program of the transition from the welfare settings to open employment focusing on one person with intellectual disability cooperated with the workshop and enterprise in which she got job as a result of out of workshop activities.
As a result of survey, 45.4% of the responded workshops of the respondent have out of workshop activities and show the preference for concerns toward the motivation of related persons involved in the process of them and realistic recognition of tasks for further development of these kind of activities compared with the workshops without out of workshop activities which accounted 54.6% of the respondents. The Effect of out of workshop activities are founded in terms of recognition of tasks workshops facing and motivating not only client participating these activities but also the remainder in the workshops.
Finally the model of support for the transition from workshops to open employment was discussed, including view point of support basing both on the suggestions of specialists in this field and advance experiences of supported employment in Sweden.

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Published: 2007-12-13  

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