Day Care and Occupational Training Centre

Nambikkai Vocational and Occupational Training Centre

Employment is often difficult for the mentally ill because of the impact of mental illness that diminishes their focus and ability to work and making them more challenging to pursue. Secondly, most of the mentally ill lose jobs due to their inability to perform work or fulfill the requirements as per the employer’s expectations. This will cause a reluctance to offer a job opportunity for someone with mental illness. 

As a result of the disease, they neglect their health and lose social contact and become housebound. This will collide the family and increase the burden of care economically and psychologically.  

Treatment for mental illness is essential for the recovery that, too, with vocational training, the ailing person will improve significantly and would become a useful member of the family and the community as well. Vocational and occupational training fasten the recovery. 

Hence we started Nambikkai vocational and occupational training centre in 2000 to make their lives worthy and meaningful. 

How we do that

When a person with mental illness is exposed to the Vocational and Rehabilitation Center, he /she does not perform all the work immediately. The Social Worker and vocational instructor at the Vocational Education Center will discuss with the psychiatrist and collect information about his / her diagnosis and medication and analyze factors such as his / her skills, ability to perform, attention and concentration, understanding capacity and his interest to assign vocational training.

Thus, Vocational training is becoming increasingly important for the mentally ill to improve the state.

Job Skills & Placement 

Generally, vocational rehabilitationists evaluate a beneficiary and identify the skills which he /she has and then will match the skills with the needed skills for the trade or occupation. 

Strengthening these skills will immensely help the trainer in job identification, and this is an essential stage to assign the right person at the right place, which will kindle the beneficiary’s engagement and secure the maximum potential outcome. Failing to execute this accurately may affect the whole means of vocational rehabilitation and hinder the recipient and their families from realizing the importance of recovery.

Once they are improved and trained, we try to find job placement or try to accommodate them in our hospital for employment or they return to their formal jobs or their family business.