Primary Programmes
Contract Work
Headset Recycling
In IDEA EDC, most of our clients are engaged in sheltered employment which comprises of contract work such as headset recycling. The work activities of this contract work serve as therapeutic and training mediums to enhance the vocational and productivity skills such as their manipulative and dexterity skills. The clients are trained to carry heavy loads using proper lifting methods, unpacking and sorting, disentangling of headset wire, cleaning, testing and packing the headsets.
Besides, some of the clients learn to operate the washing machine and the dryer to wash and dry the sponges of the headsets. The clients also learn to operate the sealer to seal the plastic container after putting in the clean sponges. The aim of all these trainings is to enhance their work skills in preparation for Open Employment.
Vocational Skill Training
Besides contract work, one of the main tasks for IDEA EDC is to place our clients out into supported or open employment. Clients that are found to have potential to work in open employment will be given vocational skill training within the centreto equip them the necessary skills for potential emloyments. The training involves aspects of community mobility training to the actual skills needed to be employed in the job itself, for e.g. domestic and industrial cleaning, laundry services and F&B services.
Community Living Skills Programme
Every month, Training Officers from each unit will bring two to three clients out to the community where they will be taught some basic community living skills such as commuting the public buses and MRT, purchasing of items from a supermarket or shopping complex, purchasing a meal from the hawker centre or food court, using the community facilities such as the library, public phones, information counters, public bus services directory, etc. This programme aims to expose all our clients to the community and to educate them the facilities available that they can use when they are in need of them.