scholarly journals Community-based vocational rehabilitation (CBVR) for people with disabilities: experiences from a pilot project in Nigeria

2004 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 143-149 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eunice B. Alade
Keyword(s):  
Vocational Rehabilitation ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Pilot Project ◽  
Community Based

Vocational Services

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lauren B. Gates
Keyword(s):  
Vocational Rehabilitation ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Physical Disability ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Supported Employment ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Community Life ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Vocational Services ◽  
Rehabilitation System

Vocational rehabilitation (VR) services, provided through a jointly funded state–federal rehabilitation system and available in each state, help people with disabilities prepare for, secure, and sustain employment. Since 1920, VR Programs have helped 10 million individuals with disabilities reach employment. Anyone with a mental or physical disability is eligible for VR services. While a range of services is provided, the services most consistent with VR goals are those, such as supported employment, that promote full integration into community life. Social workers are essential to community-based VR services; however, a challenge for the profession is to assume new roles to meet best practice vocational standards.

Community-based health promotion programs for people with disabilities: Mapping the literature landscape

2009 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. e14-e15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jana J. Peterson ◽  
Charles Drum ◽  
Gloria L. Krahn ◽  
Susan Wingenfeld ◽  
Tom W. Seekins
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Health Promotion Programs

scholarly journals Community-based Early Warning and Adaptive Response System (EWARS) for mosquito borne diseases: An open source/open community approach

2014 ◽  
Vol XL-8 ◽  
pp. 167-170 ◽  
Author(s):  
A.N. Babu ◽  
B. Soman ◽  
E. Niehaus ◽  
J. Shah ◽  
N.L. Sarda ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Pilot Project ◽  
Spatial Decision Support System ◽  
Spatial Decision Support ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Response System ◽  
Community Approach ◽  
Surveillance And Response ◽  
Development And Validation ◽  
Control And Eradication

A variety of studies around the world have evaluated the use of remote sensing with and without GIS in communicable diseases. The ongoing Ebola epidemic has highlighted the risks that can arise for the global community from rapidly spreading diseases which may outpace attempts at control and eradication. This paper presents an approach to the development, deployment, validation and wide-spread adoption of a GIS-based temporo-spatial decision support system which is being collaboratively developed in open source/open community mode by an international group that came together under UN auspices. The group believes in an open source/open community approach to make the fruits of knowledge as widely accessible as possible. A core initiative of the groups is the EWARS project. It proposes to strengthen existing public health systems by the development and validation a model for a community based surveillance and response system which will initially address mosquito borne diseases in the developing world. At present mathematical modeling to support EWARS is at an advanced state, and it planned to embark on a pilot project

Disabled People’s Experience and Perception on the Pilot Project for Primary Care for People with Disabilities

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 151-154
Author(s):  
Youngjee Kim ◽  
Sujeong Shin ◽  
In Young Cho ◽  
Jung Eun Yoo ◽  
Jae-Hyun Park ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Pilot Project

Negotiations of Meaning with MOODLE

2010 ◽  
pp. 40-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Bettoni
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Foundation ◽  
Pilot Project ◽  
Knowledge Network ◽  
Knowledge Model ◽  
Research Knowledge ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Short Introduction ◽  
Collaboration Environment

In this chapter we present a design for an e-collaboration environment and its implementation with MOODLE within the context of a research knowledge network at our university. In the first part, after a short introduction of our constructivist knowledge model, we present our idea of what we call a “design for meaning”, explaining its theoretical foundation and developing its conceptual features. In the second part we show how we have implemented this concept with Moodle for supporting a community-based knowledge network of researchers at our university and reflect on the experiences that we have collected during this 3 years pilot project.

A model for government-community partnership in building sewage systems for urban areas: The experiences of the Orangi Pilot Project – Research and Training Institute (OPP-RTI), Karachi

2002 ◽  
Vol 45 (8) ◽  
pp. 199-216 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arif Hasan
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Informal Settlement ◽  
Treatment Plant ◽  
Pilot Project ◽  
Community Partnership ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Fourth Component ◽  
And Training ◽  
Training Institute

Over 20 years the Orangi Pilot Project has been working to understand the problems of Orangi, a district of Karachi largely characterised by high-density informal settlement, and enable its residents to develop and implement solutions. Sanitation was identified as the major problem and a sewerage system was built. From this work was developed the “internal-external” concept for sanitation, which has 4 levels: sanitary latrines in houses; underground sewer in lane; neighbourhood collector sewer; and trunk sewer and treatment plant. The first three components are “internal” and can be undertaken by low-income communities; the “external” fourth component has to be funded and carried out by government or similar agency. Successful and unsuccessful attempts elsewhere to replicate this model have both confirmed the effectiveness and practicality of such community-based action and shown the – largely organisational – pitfalls that must be avoided.

Recruiting and Retaining People With Disabilities for Qualitative Health Research: Challenges and Solutions

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (7) ◽  
pp. 1056-1064 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer R. Banas ◽  
Susan Magasi ◽  
Kim The ◽  
David E. Victorson
Keyword(s):  
Health Research ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
The United States ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Qualitative Health Research ◽  
Research Challenges ◽  
Participatory Health Research ◽  
Implicit And Explicit

There are 56.7 million people with disabilities (PWD) living in the United States; yet, PWD are significantly underrepresented in health research. Even when researchers purposively seek to include PWD in studies, challenges emerge related to recruitment and retention, leading to inadequate representation and surface understandings of this population. This in turn contributes to the perpetuation of implicit and explicit health disparities that are already experienced by this population. Grounded within a qualitative, community-based participatory health research framework, we highlight challenges associated with recruiting and retaining PWD in health research, including a critical analysis of the research enterprise structure, how this disables accessible research practices for PWD, and leads to continued skepticism among PWD regarding the value of participating in research. Finally, we propose solutions to create and maintain a culture of access and inclusion as well as long-term collaborative and equity-focused partnerships.

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