Seoul Social Service Institute Enhances Capacity of Disability Activity Support Services

Seoul Metropolitan Southern and Northern Regional Disability Health Care Centers Sign Agreement to Promote Health Rights for Disabled Persons
Specialized Training for Disability Activity Support Workers and Caregivers Linked

[Asia Economy Reporter Lim Cheol-young] The Seoul Social Service Institute (Seosa-won) will sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Seoul Southern and Northern Regional Disabled Health Care Centers on the 13th.

The Seoul Southern Center operates under Boramae Hospital, while the Seoul Northern Center operates under Seoul Rehabilitation Hospital. The participating institutions recognize the importance of strengthening the capabilities of their staff and have formed a cooperative relationship to provide professional training and thereby promote the health rights of local disabled individuals.

The first step in this cooperation, capacity-building training, will be conducted from June targeting Seosa-won's care workers, led by expert instructors linked to the Seoul Southern and Northern Centers. The main training topics for disability activity support workers include ▲Understanding challenging behaviors of people with developmental disabilities, such as physical and verbal aggression, self-injury, and destructive behaviors that severely interfere with daily life ▲Communication methods for people with developmental disabilities. For care workers, the main training topics include ▲Emergency response ▲Cognitive impairment management ▲Infectious disease prevention.

Additionally, Seosa-won will provide emotional management training such as stress management and depression prevention to ensure that workers' healthy mindsets lead to better disability activity support services.

Meanwhile, Seosa-won is planning to improve the current 9 to 6 working hour system, which limits service provision, to support 24-hour care services in order to provide care services, including disability activity support, in ways that users desire.

Hwang Jeong-il, CEO of Seosa-won, said, “Through training by expert instructors linked to the Seoul Southern and Northern Centers, I hope that Seosa-won's professional service staff can advance to the next level as experts,” and added, “We will strive to enhance the health rights of disabled individuals through user-tailored care services.”

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