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WWR Host To
Rehab. Specialists
Woodrow Wilson Rehabilitation Cfenter (WWRC), Fishersville, a unit of the Virginia Department j{ Vocational Rehabilitation, will play host to a national meeting of rehabilitation facilities specialists, July 18-19. State vocational rehabilitation agency personnel from 48 states, including Alaska and Hawaii, and from Puerto Rico and the Virgin islands, plus officials from the U. S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, will discuss “the role of rehabilitation facilities and workshops in a changing society.” Presiding at the two-day meeting will be R. Kenneth Barnes, chief, division of rehabilitation facilities and workshops, Rehabilitation Services Administration, Washington. Prime purpose of the meeting will be to train new facilities specialists on procedures in working with local groups and agencies to obtain federal matching grants for sheltered workshops and other facilities to serve the handicapped. Another objective will be to research more efficient ways of serving disabled persons. A third important aspect of the meeting will be a review of the 1968 vocational rehabilitation amendments and their establishment of a new role for state agencies - that of working with disadvantaged groups whose cultural and economic deprivation are construed as handicaps to employment.
The Rehabilitation Services Administration states that during fiscal 1960 through 1968 sheltered workshops in the nation served 59,701 handicapped citizens. Rehabilitation and adjustment centers during the same period served 174,616 persons who were clients of state vocational rehabilitation agencies.
The meeting will be sponsored by the School of Rehabilitation Counseling, Virginia Commonwealth University, in cooperation with WWRC and the Rehabilitation Services Administration rehabilitation facilities.
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