In January of this year, our monthly The WorkPlace was transformed from newsletter to magazine. Our quarterly periodical, WorkForce Development , has become a show place of good ideas and information about the field of vocational rehabilitation and the many issues that ebb and flow about this wonderfully caring and highly professional field. People deserve choices. As you have read in my monthly columns in The WorkPlace , CRPs that began decades ago as sheltered workshops have transformed themselves in so many ways. One of the important ways is that their business enterprises have become more professional in their market delivery and more caring and important as a source of training and employment of a segment of our society that wants to work.
People deserve choices.
People who face employment barriers deserve supervisors and foremen who are not only professional overseers of skill development and quality outputs, but also understand and work with those who have special needs or require some accommodations in their work place lives. These accommodations can be in the workplace, or in getting to and from the workplace, or even a place to live. CRPs are in every city and town and understand how to serve the needs of their communities when others can not or will not. The Drucker Foundation serves as a home and showcase of the vitality of what he calls the Social Sector and other call the independent or freedom sector. CRPs have long understood the need for non-governmental solutions to society's problems.