Action Research of Establishing a Filed of Labor and Living for Mental Disabilities：The Experience in Cuckoo-land Organic Farm

• Main Authors: Sing-Ting Wang, 王芯婷
• Other Authors: Li-Chen Cheng
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2007
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/74038969744701102845

碩士 === 國立臺灣大學 === 社會工作學研究所 === 95 === The theme of this research is a reflection of the researcher who attended the foundation of the Cuckoo-Land Organic Farm. And this research aims at analyzing and discussing issues which are derived from the action and are of labor and rights advocacy of mental disabilities. The Cuckoo-Land Organic Farm is the field to assist mental disabilities to obtain the chances to labor and to propose their rights. The purpose of the action is to fade the color of “patient” of mental disabilities through “laboring”. Staff and mental disabilities co-work as partners and attend all discussions and decisions together to impel the whole action. In the action, through the scheme of “the mode of Labor ”, “the mode of Salary ” and “Rights advocacy”, all the mental disabilities begins to have hopes of life, reveal their labor force and rebuild the relationship with common society. Moreover, they regain the independency of “normal human-beings”. Also, the researcher reflects during the action and more understand the needs and expectation when the mental disabilities facing the issue of “labor”. During the procedure of the action, continuously communication with mental disabilities who identify themselves with the action is needed. In addition, in order to reach the purpose, their needs and thinking must be respected, and staff there must assist them to carry out self-empower. 　　 At last, by means of analyzing the experiences about the labor and the rights advocacy in the Cuckoo-Land Organic Farm, this research aims at giving practitioners who offering services for mental disabilities a different point of view to realize the labor force of the mental disabilities and their needs for having jobs.