Description
The rationale for this project was the need to guarantee the high level of competency of our personnel (the employees have different work experience in the rehabilitation field) and to provide innovative services tailored to our clients' needs. The aim of the project is to improve our personnel's competency and the complexity of our services to provide better service quality for people with disabilities. Firstly, this project will help our personnel to be qualified in psychosocial rehabilitation methodology. Secondly, it will make it possible for us to start providing different new services: workplace evaluation for people with disabilities, we will also test the congruence of disability peer counseling and the Estonian rehabilitation system, and finally, our clients will have the possibility to try out different assistive devices. Our partner NGO Handicap is a disability advocacy organization, they will be responsible for the disability peer counseling service.
Summary of project results
The aim of the project was to improve the personnel's competency and the complexity of NGO's services to provide better service quality for people with disabilities. This goal was achieved because: • the personnel is qualified in psychosocial rehabilitation methodology and uses it in daily work with clients; • the NGO is ready to provide workplace evaluation for people with disabilities which is a great advantage due to different reforms about to take place in the Estonian rehabilitation system (shift towards work rehabilitation for people with disabilities); • the NGO found that disability peer counselling fits very well into the Estonian rehabilitation system and will continue with this activity; the Estonian National Social Insurance Board is also aware of the NGO's success and the NGO will continue to implement disability peer counselling with its partner NGO Handicap; • the clients and physiotherapists of the NGO use the set of different assistive devices daily and will continue to do so which contributes to the independence of people with disabilities.
Summary of bilateral results