Social Entrepreneurship Training for Persons with disability

Social entrepreneurship is the practice of recognizing and creatively pursuing opportunities that build social value. Regardless of race, sex or gender, and educational level among other factors, social entrepreneurs are innovative, practical, and results oriented. Worldwide, persons with disabilities (PWD) represent an increasing section of the adult population. This is partly due to the fact that populations are aging, and incidence of disabilities tends to increase with age. Research has found that disability influences a number of social and economic outcomes such as partaking in social activities and the work force, which may eventually lead to social exclusion for PWD, lost income for their families, and loss of tax revenue for governments. Our study hopes to set up a social entrepreneurship training program that can be an option to vocational training. It will promote training experience and learning for PWD in the field of social entrepreneurship. In this study, we will recruit 250-300 PWD; and then explore how our training program will help us to understand if social entrepreneurship training can be a successful vocational opportunity for persons PWD. We also hope to know whether the type of disability can affect the success of social entrepreneurship training. Lastly, we hope

Faculty Supervisor:

Bruce Martin

Student:

Partner:

The Kelowna & District Society for People In Motion;Economic Trust of the Southern Interior

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology

University:

Thompson Rivers University

Program: