Study on Current Service Model of Community Operation Facilities for the Mentally Disabled in Yilan County-with Lan-Chui Social Welfare Foundation as an Example

• Main Author: 楊惠鳳
• Other Authors: 許文傑博士
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/44299882205117386634

碩士 === 佛光大學 === 公共事務學系 === 101 === Ministry of the Interior is the central competent authority in Taiwan for the establishment and implementation of social welfare policies, and local governments are in charge of the administration measures regarding the physically and mentally disabled such as economic security, caring service, life reconstruction service, education service, medical rehabilitation service, employment service and community participation service. A continuous and diversified planning facilitates the provision of supportive service in the aspects of personal caring for the disabled, family supports and social participation as to realize the protection of interests of the disabled. The “People with Disabilities Rights Protection Act” promulgated on July 11, 2007 (PDRPA) separates the administration departments into labor administration departments for occupational reconstruction service and social welfare departments for life reconstruction service. Prior to the establishment of PDRPA, “shelter workshops” were provided as a service measure by both the social welfare and labor administration departments. Later, PDPRA specifies the shelter workshops as one of the employment types for the disabled for which the employment relationship must be maintained according to the Labor Standards Act. A number of social welfare groups which provided shelter workshop service models for the disabled were closed due to the significant increase in human resource costs such as payroll, pension plan and insurance. Therefore, the Ministry of the Interior started the “pilot plan of service model of community operation facilities for the mentally disabled in daytime” from 2009 to 2010 to provide a continuous, appropriate and diversified service for the mentally disabled people who are not accepted by the shelter workshops for employment and not given with institutional services. There is no shelter workshop in Yilan County so far. Two social welfare service groups started the service model of community operation facilities for the mentally disabled in September 2011. It was found in this study on current service model of community operation facilities for the mentally disabled in Yilan County that the social welfare groups in Yilan are facing the following difficulties: differences in the identification of position, unstable sources of funding and subsidies, difficulty in operation activity development and lack of marketing ability and sales channels for products. For this, strategies and suggestions were proposed for the future of the service model of community operation facilities for the mentally disabled in Yilan County from the legislative and organizational aspects as a reference for the practice of helping the mentally disabled population.