Employment Support & Training Centre for Persons with Hearing Impairment
Employment Support & Training Centre for Persons with Hearing Impairment
Funding Category
BaseLine Allocations
Service Types
Rehabilitation and Aftercare Services - Services for the Visually & Hearing Impaired
Funding Period
2024 - 2025
Project Code
RSPB-20-8102
Agency Name
Silence Limited
Project Name
Employment Support & Training Centre for Persons with Hearing Impairment
District
Territory-wide
Approved Allocation
HK$770,600
Project Detail
The Centre aims to provide job skill training for persons with hearing impairment, and to enable them to secure jobs and work independently in open employment. Vocational guidance, job matching and job skill training courses will be provided for them. Moreover, under the Job Interview Interpreter Scheme, volunteers will be trained to help the hearing impaired prepare job interviews, and to provide sign language interpretation service during job interviews. And under the Peer Counselling Scheme for Hearing Impaired Persons, peer counsellors will be trained to help them handle interpersonal relationships problems encountered in their work places.