Joyce Chevalier Centre for the Handicapped
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Mission Statement
The Joyce Chevalier Centre Protective Workshop (the Centre) works with adults with an intellectual disability (ID) providing work-type occupations. - To provide useful meaningful occupations for adults with ID who are not able to work in the open labour market. - To provide developmental, health and training activities to develop their skills with regard to work skills, work habits and life skills. - To improve the independence of adults with ID.
About This Cause
The Joyce Chevalier Centre started as a support group for mothers with children with disabilities in 1972 after Joyce had a son with Down Syndrome. This group became an organization under the supervision of St Kiaran’s Presbyterian Church. In 1999 the Centre was established as an adult workshop and became a Non-Profit Organization. At this time, they bought the building after an extensive fundraiser which coincided with the death of the founder. Currently, the Centre funding comes from fundraising, Department of Social Development funding and worker fees, and from the work contracts that the workers complete (roughly a third from each source). The aim of the protective workshop is to provide work in a protective environment to maximize skills and development of work but also to develop the person. To this end, the work programme has a social and exercise programme along with work skills and habits and general life skills. Furthermore, this project aims to include the wider community to promote inclusion into the Community as well as increase the reach of the organization to persons with ID who don’t have access to programmes.