Guyana gets update on Regional Training Centre
Minister within The Ministry of Education, Hon. Nicolette Henry was brought up to speed on the cooperation and technical assistance Agreement between CARICOM, the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Cuba and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for the establishment of the Regional Training Centre. This project is aimed at stimulating the development of children, adolescents and young people with special educational needs associated with disabilities.
The appraisal was done during a courtesy call from the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Julio Cesar Gonzalez Marchante and Professor Jorge Duvalon Ramirez on Monday January 16, the Minister announced on her Facebook page.
The Agreement for this initiative was signed in December 2016 by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hon. Carl B. Greenidge, Ambassador Julio Cesar Gonzalez Marchante and CARICOM Secretary-General, Ambassador Irwin LaRocque.
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The proposal to finance this project was made by the Government of Cuba at the V CARICOM-Cuba Summit in 2014.
Some of the specific objectives of the project are to:-
1. Improve the evaluation, diagnosis, and counseling of people with disabilities in any context in which they are, from the earliest ages.
2. Promote educational training strategies to improve the prevention, correction, compensation, and rehabilitation and socio-professional integration services offered by professionals, based on social cooperation.
3. Promote cooperation among various social welfare institutions and educational leaders in the transfer of strategies, methods, and techniques in the transformation of comprehensive attention provided to persons with disabilities.
4. Improve professionals, technicians and other educational agents training and preparation involved in the educational attention of persons with disabilities in the region
5. Develop programmes for Education and guidance of family and community members who interact with persons with disabilities.
6. Stimulate the realisation of research to improve the quality of educational attention of persons with disabilities.
7. Promote scientific production that contributes to socialise the best experiences of managers, teachers, and specialists from CARICOM countries.
The implementation of the project has five stages inclusive of Awareness and Diagnostic Comprehension; Design of the Training Centre and Counselling to People who will work on it; Implementation of the Planned Development Centre; Performance of Regional Training Centre for Educational Attention of Persons with Disabilities and Monitoring and Evaluation.
The expected results are to improve teachers training for providing education to persons with disabilities; improve diagnosis quality and effectiveness and stimulate the development of children, adolescents, youth and adults with disabilities; improve the life quality of persons with disabilities in any context in which they are, and model validation of regional training center to provide comprehensive educational attention to children, adolescents and youth with disabilities.