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=== <span style="background:#F2DACE">'''PWDs fully understand their suitability for job options / career paths → PWDs are best positioned to secure open/sheltered employment'''</span> === | === <span style="background:#F2DACE">'''PWDs fully understand their suitability for job options / career paths → PWDs are best positioned to secure open/sheltered employment'''</span> === |
Revision as of 08:27, 1 April 2020
Click on each outcome in the Theory of Change to explore services, gaps and ideas.
To change anything in this page, feel free to contribute directly or to propose revisions and amendments in the Discussion page.
Theory of Change
Short-Term Outcomes
(skills, knowledge, attitudes) |
Mid-Term Outcomes
(behaviours) |
Long-Term Outcomes
(impact) |
Social Impact | |||
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PWDs and employers are aware of fair employment practices | → | PWDs can seek recourse against employment discrimination | → | PWDs are protected against unfair work practices | → | Disabled people can secure, retain and progress in their careers |
Employers understand PWD capabilities | → | Employers are willing to hire PWDs | → | PWDs are best positioned to secure open/sheltered employment | → | |
Employers know how to accommodate PWDs' needs | → | |||||
Employers find it financially feasible to hire PWDs | → | |||||
PWDs fully understand their suitability for job options/career paths
(strengths/preferences, managed expectations) |
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PWDs know about available job opportunities | → | |||||
PWDs acquire work skills
(vocational, technical, soft, employability) |
→ | PWDs can apply work skills in actual settings | → |
PWDs fully understand their suitability for job options / career paths → PWDs are best positioned to secure open/sheltered employment
Programmes | Gaps | Ideas |
BizLink Vocational Assessment Service
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ARC Employability & Employment Centre (E2C) Programme
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An individual with autism received vocational assistance from ARC; he paid $494 (after subsidy) for the vocational assessment but was deemed unemployable, yet managed to secure a job later at Dignity Kitchen.
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SG Enable — Job Advisory
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PWDs know about available job opportunities → PWDs are best positioned to secure open/sheltered employment
Programmes | Gaps | Ideas |
SG Enable - Job Advisory
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SG Enable — Disability Employment Jobs Portal
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Jobs listed on most job portals do not reflect if the hiring company is interested to employ PWDs. Career events are not always universally designed as well. | Employers can reflect if they are keen to employ PWDs, at career events, on job portals and other avenues.
Having a “ready-to-hire PWDs” mark would ease PWDs’ job search process. |
ABLE Return to Work Programme
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BizLink Vocational Assessment Service
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SPD Employment Support Programme (ESP)
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SPD Transition To Employment Programme (TTE)
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ARC Employability & Employment Centre (E2C) Programme
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MINDS Employment Development Centres (EDCs)
Provides vocational training for adults with intellectual disabilities aged 18 and above: |
PWDs acquire work skills → PWDs can apply work skills in actual settings
Programmes | Gaps | Ideas |
Transition & Vocational Training in SPED schools: list here | Some SPED students have difficulty mastering job skills training even when approaching graduation/18 years old. | Allow SPED students to attend courses ad-hoc, after graduation, taking into consideration income loss too. |
SPED school graduates lack internship opportunities during their school-going years. SPED schools and VWOs typically have to get their own contacts. | Have a central coordinator that facilitates the internship process, or have more opportunities to dialogue with partners like WSG/MOM. | |
Skills taught in WSQ- and WPLN- certified courses may not always be retained, nor applied. | Study European apprenticeship models to improve on vocational training and transition planning. | |
Because of job tracking, SPED graduates tend to lack information on job opportunities beyond their track, e.g., ex-student who worked in Coffee Bean switched to forklift driving. | Explore the feasibility of freelance/cottage industry labour, evergreen sectors like waste management, funeral parlour work, and purposeful job re-designs. Remember to take into account caregiver perceptions and potential reservations, where relevant too. | |
Lack of information on job opportunity and industry trends that SPED schools usually train their students to enter. | PWDs’ employability may be at risk in view of increasing automation and technological advancement. Can we equip them to work alongside technologies such as digital media, handheld tech, machines? Learn from Orana, Australia. | |
SPED graduates tend to be pigeonholed into specific tracks/job roles which are mostly low-skilled. | ||
Mountbatten Vocational School - ITE Skills Certificate (ISC)
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Metta School’s Vocational Certification Programme-
Institute of Technical Education Skills Certificate (ISC)
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Metta School’s Employment Pathway Programme (EPP)
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Metta School’s C (Career) Programme
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APSN Delta Senior School’s Vocational Certification Programme - Singapore Workforce Skills Qualifications (WSQ)
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Sheltered Workshops
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MINDS Employment Development Centres (EDCs)
MINDS regularly organises internships in industries as diverse as laundromats, supermarkets, hardware shops and car wash facilities in petrol stations for its clients starting from the age of about 16. By around age 19, some PWDs can be guided towards working in sheltered workshops that cater to them, doing work such as packing, retail, baking and making crafts. Others are placed in the general labour market, where they are mentored and supported by job coaches from Minds who ensure that they are not stressed in their new environment or check that they are able to take public transport to work.[1] |
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Rise Mentorship Programme
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IHL Internship Programme
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CV Clinics by Singapore Business Network on Disability
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Cerebral Palsy Alliance Singapore – Goodwill, Rehabilitation and Occupational Workshop (GROW)
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Singapore Association for the Visually Handicapped - Skills Development Programme
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Down Syndrome Association – Adult Enhancement Programme | ||
Training Courses at Continuing Education and Training (CET) Centres | There is a lack of knowledge of which courses (e.g., WSQ courses) are disability-friendly, or which Continuing Education and Training (CET) centres are conducive or accessible to PWDs (e.g. traveling to and within centres, sensory disturbances). | CET centres can consult relevant organisations to understand the considerations involved in ensuring that a venue is accessible (not just in the centre/building, but also getting there) |
Training Programmes at SG Enable: list here |
PWDs can apply work skills in actual settings → PWDs are best positioned to secure open/sheltered employment
- Government is looking to set up employment centres in residential neighbourhoods to train and offer jobs to PWDs - consider using HDB void decks or unwanted public buildings as training venues
Programmes | Gaps | Ideas |
School-to-Work Transition Programme (S2W)
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ABLE Return to Work Programme
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ARC Employability & Employment Centre (E2C) Programme
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SPD Employment Support Programme (ESP)
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Hospital-to-Work Programme
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SPD Transition To Employment Programme (TTE)
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Job coaches face difficulties in providing psychosocial support for those with acquired disabilities. Some PWDs have difficulty accepting their disabilities and the job coaches are not trained to provide psychosocial support to address these issues. | |
Sheltered Workshops
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PWDs are best positioned to secure open/sheltered employment → Disabled people can secure, retain and progress in their careers
- Job placement and job support services can be linkedin to mainstream job agencies to access larger network of potential employers?
- Use a tiered quota system for hiring?
Programmes | Gaps | Ideas |
School-to-Work Transition Programme (S2W)
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ABLE Return to Work Programme
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ARC Employability & Employment Centre (E2C) Programme
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SPD Employment Support Programme (ESP)
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Public Service Career Placement (PSCP) Programme
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SPD Transition To Employment Programme (TTE)
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Job coaches face difficulties in providing psychosocial support for those with acquired disabilities. Some PWDs have difficulty accepting their disabilities and the job coaches are not trained to provide psychosocial support to address these issues. | |
Sheltered Workshops
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- ↑ http://www.straitstimes.com/lifestyle/myth-of-the-disabled-worker
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 http://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/education/scheme-to-help-students-with-special-needs-find-work
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 https://www.msf.gov.sg/policies/Disabilities-and-Special-Needs/Documents/Enabling%20Masterplan%203%20(revised%2013%20Jan%202017).pdf