Social and vocational rehabilitation - SIVA

Our aim is to help to learn how to cope with functional impairments, restore or acquire skills that were lost due to various circumstances, help people to return to work and engage in social activities. To improve the social functioning abilities and independent living skills.

Social rehabilitation
For persons with impaired functioning of the working age (from 15 to the age of granting an old-age pension), as well as persons with impaired functioning conditions at working age who work and pay 
State social security contributions social rehabilitation service is 14 days.
For politically repressed persons (including members of the National Resistance Movement) and for the victims of the accident of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant and those who are affected by the accident of Chernobyl up to 18 years age social rehabilitation service is 21 days.
  • SIVA specialist – client
  • Promoting independent living
  • Environment assessment, suggestions on improvements, opportunities to receive assistive tools, teaching how to use them 
  • Occupational and physical therapy
  • Health promotion
  • Home safety assessment
  • Client training
  • Consultations on assistive technologies and ways of using them
  • Educating on personal care
  • Individual training plan for exercises
Vocational rehabilitation
  • Target group – persons with disability in a working-age (15-64 y.o.) or persons at the risk of getting disability who have recommendation from The State Medical Commission for the Assessment of Health Condition and Working Ability, persons with mental disorders.
  • Professional assessment 10 day (professional adequacy)
  • 26 Vocational training programs- lenght from 5 months until 4 years (Jurmala Vocational Secondary School and College)
  • Psycho-social assistance
  • Medical treatment assistance
  • Providing assistance in placement and job finding
  • Driving school
Jurmala Vacational Secondary school
  • Sale specialist
  • Industrial commercial employee
  • Computer Systems Technican
  • Data input operator
  • Cook/ Cooks assistant
  • Pastry assistant
  • Sewers assistant
  • Printing specialist
  • Laundry specialist and other
  • Skills training programs (Placement of goods and products in the sales hall, Gift wrapping & design, garden weeding)
College
  • Personnel Specialist HR
  • Accountant
  • Marketing and Sales
  • Manager
  • Hotel service manager
  • Programmer
  • Computer Systems and Networks Administrator
  • Sign language interpreter

HCBS In vocational rehabilitation

  • Started with the pandemic and remote learning process or interrupted training
  • Difficulties: clients are from all around the LV, frustration, confusion, technical equipment at home, computer skills and internet access
  • Benefits: support, motivation, a sense of belonging for people with health problems
  • Staff: career counsellor, social worker, psychologist, teachers and other specialists
  • Case management
  • Health promotion and disease prevention
  • Information and referral services
  • Promotion of healthy lifestyle
  • Keeping motivation for vocational rehabilitation