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Effectiveness of Vocational Rehabilitation: Challenges in returning injured workers back to work within the Workers' Compensation Board Model in Canada.
Abstract
Vocational rehabilitation services provided under Canada's Workers Compensation Board programs have expanded in scope and expenditure. However, these programs have been scrutinized for their effectiveness in satisfying the mandate of work reintegration of workers with an injury. The tenets guiding vocational rehabilitation highlight the challenges in achieving successful outcomes in work reintegration. Eligibility and scope of vocational rehabilitation services and the measure for success are identified as the underlying factors complicating effective service delivery. The framework of vocational rehabilitation and the outcomes in reintegrating injured workers in the workforce suggest that vocational rehabilitation services fall short of meeting its goal of returning workers who have sustained permanent injuries back to work in an accessible, safe and sustainable environment.
Submitted by
J. Shiroya Changirwa, Family Counsellor with the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo ; Email: shiroya.changirwa@woodbuffalo.ab.ca
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