Training and Employment Services Policy Analysis: A Look at Community Based Services for Handicapped Individuals

摘要

This paper reports on an initiative to address the policies of training and employment services which affect the delivery of services to handicapped individuals in community - based sheltered workshops. The demand for special services is in contrast to the recent public policy of mainstreaming. The primary training and employment service facilities for severely handicapped persons in most communities are work activities centers, developmental centers, and other sheltered workshops. DHEW responded to studies and conferences on these workshops by initiating Training and Employment Services Policy Analysis (TESPA) to focus on the training and employment services. TESPA established a task force to identify the major issues, policy problems, and tentative action proposals. Also, TESPA will interview key personnel in six preselected States. The interviews will address the dual status of handicapped individuals in community - based sheltered workshops, financing of training and employment services, wage earnings and other income of handicapped individuals in workshops, work supply and technology, and the right of handicapped individuals to live and work independently. The working paper for the field testing and validation activity has refined major issues, policy problems, and action considerations in all of the above areas. Tables and references are included. Two appendices present a summary of the major findings and recommendations of related research and other studies, and the proceedings of the DHEW / TESPA Task Force on Current Issues and Policy Problems.