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Empowering Children with Disabilities: Social Work Strategies for Family and Community Integration

Explore the social work intervention framework implemented in Batangas, Philippines, focusing on empowering children with disabilities through multi-level training, community organizing, and advocacy. Learn about the successful results achieved, including the integration of children with disabilities into regular schools and the employment of youth with disabilities.

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Empowering Children with Disabilities: Social Work Strategies for Family and Community Integration

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  1. The Integration of Children and Youth with Disabilities into Family and Community Life: A Social Worker’s Experience A Presentation by Ma. Teresa R. Nuqui, Executive Director, NORFIL Foundation, Inc., Philippines for the 2012 Joint World Conference on “Social Work and Social Development: Action and Impact”, July 8- 12, 2012, Stockholm, Sweden.

  2. The Situation in 2003

  3. Batangas is an agricultural province made up of 3 cities and 31 municipalities and 1.078 villages 18, 194 adults with disabilities

  4. The Social Work Intervention

  5. Case Management Framework for C/YWD Partnership with Local government and other Stakeholders Community Family Multi– Level Training Community- Organizing Approaches: • Wholistic • Rights- Based and Life Cycle • Family Focused and Community Based • Multi– Disciplinary Integration in Family and Community Life Child Home- Based Rehabilitation Advocacy and Educating the Community

  6. The Strategies Used

  7. Partnership with Local government and other Stakeholders

  8. Multi- Level Training • Village community volunteers and coordinators • Parents of the c/ywds as they actively participate in the home- based rehabilitation sessions • C/y with disability based on their disability • Teachers and school principals/ administrators

  9. Multi- Level Training • Peer counsellors and trainers • Non- disabled students as child advocates • Officers of government line agencies • Village leaders • Police Officers, Court staff

  10. Adaptive Devices

  11. Home- Based Rehabilitation

  12. Advocacy and Educating the community Passage of local laws and ordinances e.g. opening of SPED classes, accessibility Health benefits for c/ywds Increase in the budget of LGUs for the disabled sector Creation of P/MCDAs

  13. Community Organizing Parent Core groups “AKAPIN” the organization of parents into a legal entity

  14. The Results (2010)

  15. 662 trained volunteers who serve as case finders and monitor the progress of the children

  16. 6, 610c/ywds received rehabilitation services

  17. 4, 420 parents with Philhealth membership • 5, 639 babies newborn screened

  18. 7, 284 children underwent ear screening by community volunteers

  19. 3, 214 public school teachers/ principals trained on disability, rehab and classroom management

  20. 26 SPED Classes

  21. 376 C/YWDs Integrated in Regular Schools

  22. SPED HOME Program as Distance Education

  23. 135 Public buildings accessible to

  24. “AKAPIN”(to embrace)

  25. Youth with Disability are Employed

  26. Thank You!!!

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