CORE SERVICES

Vocational Rehabilitation Services

社會福利署資助服務

Integrated Vocational Rehabilitation Service Centres

Service Introduction

imageNew Life Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association operates six Integrated Vocational Rehabilitation Centres (IVRSCs), including Sun Workshop (Sham Shui Po), Jockey Club Sun Workshop (Chuk Yuen), Jockey Club Sun Workshop(Tin King), Shek Pai Wan Integrated Work Centre, Kwai Shing Workshop, and New Life Farm. It provides people in recovery of mental illness and people with disabilities with market-oriented integrated vocational rehabilitation services to accommodate their training needs. Through progressive and diversified vocational modules, comprehensive assessment, structured training programmes, and continuous support services, service users are provided with a variety of vocational training programmes commensurate with their interests, abilities and talents for developing their social and employment potentials, preparing for advancement to supported employment or open employment where possible. IVRSC is a social service; There is no employer-employee relationship between the service units and the service users.

 

Our Aims

Grounded on "Care for People" and "Recovery-oriented" practices, we aim at:

  • Providing vocational training in a community integrated environment, and encouraging service users to sustain in a work training position with the opportunity for upward mobility which recognize their potentials and contribution;
  • Arranging job matching, on-the-job support and follow up;
  • Developing social and interpersonal skills of service users;
  • Facilitating service users' understanding on one's potentials and work adaptation to prepare for community reintegration.

 

Our Service

With a staff team comprising managers, social workers, occupational therapists, nurses, instructors and etc., the IVRSCs provide various well-organized services that allow service users to select suitable training according to their abilities, strengths, interests and developmental needs. Through Person-Centered Care Planning, vocational trainings, job attachment, individualized follow-up, diversified activities and intervention at different levels, we provide the following services:

  • Centre-based vocational training, including bakery, handicrafts, farming, vegetable processing, floral art, eco-friendly cleansing product production, food processing, packaging and processing-manufacturing-based training;
  • Community-based vocational training, for example, outdoor cleansing, car beautification, retailing, catering and community environmental services;
  • Vocational rehabilitation assessments for formulating person-centered and individual rehabilitation plan with regular review;
  • Employment-related services including job-related training and coaching, job matching, job attachment, job trial, on-the-job coaching and post-placement service;
  • Various life skills training, social, recreational, emotions and stress management, life-planning and well-being programmes;
  • Family life education and other support activities for service users and their families;
  • Tailor-made activities and nursing care services for service users who can no longer perform normal work tasks owing to old age or decline in work abilities through the Work Extension Programme (WEP);
  • Commercial-hired transport service (applicable only to Jockey Club Sun Workshop (Chuk Yuen)).

 

Service Target

IVRSCs provide services for people in recovery of mental illness or people with other disabilities with the following criteria:

  • Aged 15 or above;
  • Capable of basic self-care;
  • In need of vocational training or support to take up open employment;
  • Stable medical and psychiatric conditions;
  • Demonstrate to have work motivation/ability through pre-admission intake assessment;
  • Not assessed with severe intellectual disabilities;
  • No history of aggressive, substance abuse, infectious diseases, excessive drinking. drug abuse, pathological gambling or other severe behavioral problem in the past 6 months;

 

Application and Exit of Service

Applicants may approach doctors or social workers for referral through the Central Referral System for Rehabilitation Services operated by Social Welfare Department. Referrers or applicants can also approach the service units for direct application. Social workers of IVRSC will regularly discuss with service users on their progress and devise a discharge plan according to their needs.

 

Service Charge

The service is free of charge.

 

Contact Us

Service Unit Tel Fax Email
Sun Workshop (Sham Shui Po)
Address: 2/F-3/F, New Life Building, 332 Nam Cheong Street, Kowloon		 2778 6023 2776 7612 swssp@nlpra.org.hk
Jockey Club Sun Workshop(Chuk Yuen)
Units 101-108 & 117-124, G/F, Cheung Yuen House, Chuk Yuen (North) Estate, Kowloon		 2324 9974 2328 5178 jcsw@nlpra.org.hk
Jockey Club Sun Workshop (Tin King)
Units 9-24, G/F, Block 10, Tin Lok House, Tin King Estate, Tuen Mun, New Territories		 2466 0068 2464 6960 jcswtk@nlpra.org.hk
Shek Pai Wan Integrated Work Centre
Unit 1, LG3/F, Pik Fai House, Shek Pai Wan Estate, H.K.		 2552 4202 2814 7577 spwiwc@nlpra.org.hk
Kwai Shing Workshop
Units 101-104, 106 & 108, Block 9 and Units 101-118, Block 10, Kwai Shing West Estate, Kwai Chung, New Territories		 2428 8711 2485 1833 ksw@nlpra.org.hk
New Life Farm
33 San Fuk Road, Tuen Mun, New Territories		 2180 2330 3107 4618 nlf@nlpra.org.hk

 

Scope of Services

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