Online Workshop
Asynchronous Session
The Effects of the Pandemic on Vocational Rehabilitation Service Delivery: Changes and Solutions View Digital Media
Workshop Presentation Michael Accordino, Charles Bernacchio, Gina Oswald
The pandemic had a major impact on not only people with disabilities but also how services were delivered at vocational rehabilitation offices. Changes such as virtual meetings, centralized processing, and hiring practices seem to be the most significant changes. This workshop will present some useful strategies for managing these changes through rehabilitation pedagogy and training. Recommendations for moving forward will also be discussed.
Attaining Functional Solidarity: Visioning an Inclusive Nation View Digital Media
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Josefina Ochoa
As societies and people become complicated, values have been lacking particularly loving the Creator and His creation and this inevitably result in chaos, conflicts and underdevelopment. The affect of solidarity seems to be lacking and needs reflections among leaders who should be visionary as they perform their functions. Mindfulness is such quality and awareness of something, a mental state achieved by focusing on the present moment, while calmly acknowledging and accepting one's feelings, thoughts, and bodily sensations. Social change theory posits processes of change in a culture’s past and present that would be possible thru reflections and visioning. This could be achieved in being mindful of the history, eventualities and the course of action undertaken by national leaders. This study explores the vision statements of leaders as well as their ways of attaining the vision. It assumed barriers to vision and solidarity attainment and social processes that are dispensed. It is qualitative in design, post positivist in paradigm and it employed one-on-one interview to select organizational leaders. The study puts in attributes for changes, such as magnitude of change, time span, direction, rate of change, and restructuring society as underlying themes to inclusive nation building. Implications for social psychology such as cooperation and leadership are forwarded.
