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sheltered workshop
Etymology: ME, sheltrun, body of guards; AS, werc + sceoppa, stall a facility or program, either for outpatients or for residents of an institution, that provides vocational experience in a controlled working environment. The workshop also offers related vocational rehabilitation services, such as job interview training, to people with physical or mental disabilities. workshop [werk´shop] 1. the meeting of a group of people for a specialized purpose such as having a discussion, learning something, or studying something. 2. the place where such a meeting is held. sheltered workshop a facility where individuals with handicaps are employed to produce a product, to socialize, and to increase their sense of self worth. Want to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit the webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Nelson (1971) stated that the definition of a sheltered workshop was from the National Association of Sheltered Workshops and Homebound programs, which adopted a definition of a sheltered workshop: "A sheltered workshop is a nonprofit rehabilitation facility utilizing individual goals, wages, supportive services, and a controlled work environment to help vocationally handicapped persons achieve or maintain their maximum potential as workers" (p. Types of risks accepted: Commercial children's daycare centers, in-home (family) children's daycare centers, children's camps, Head Start programs, nursery schools, latchkey programs, mental health clinics, family counseling clinics, sheltered workshops, Goodwill/Salvation Army and similar facilities, homeless shelters, most nonprofits excluding colleges, universities, unions, churches and municipalities. Another 30 percent of the individuals served are working in sheltered workshops, many of which are agencies that produce goods for state contracts. |
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