Jamaica’s Government Allocates Over $55 Million for Skills Training and Special Education Needs

#Jamaica, February 21, 2018 – Kingston -The Social and Economic Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities Project, through the Ministry of Labour of Social Security, could see just over $55 million dollars injected to aid in the development of skills and training for individuals with disabilities between the ages of 18 – 38.

The plan is contained in the Estimates of Expenditure, which is currently before the House of Assembly in Jamaica.  “The Government will be strengthening the delivery of skills training and special education needs to poor persons with disabilities during the new fiscal year.”

The rehabilitative physiotherapy for children up to age six, in the Early Stimulation Programme (ESP), and workshops for parents of children with disabilities will run from April to August, 2018 and includes, “delivering workshops to parents of children with disabilities; procuring additional assistive aids, and procuring and implementing a management information system.”

Since it’s inception in 2013, over 500 people have been enrolled in the skills training programme, with 66 of those individuals having already been employed, and 66 children have received assistive aids through the PATH programme.

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