Initiative available in Nanaimo, Vancouver, Kelowna, Prince George
Individuals in and around four B.C. communities now have access to a program supporting workers injured off the job to get back to their jobs.
Sheila Malcolmson, Nanaimo MLA and minister of social development and poverty reduction, said participants will receive support from a certified disability management professional in collaboration with health-care professionals. Aside from Nanaimo, the three-year pilot program is also being introduced in Vancouver, Kelowna and Prince George. The minister said those communities were chosen to spread the program to different areas of the province as well as test it in different-sized cities.
Wolfgang Zimmermann, executive director of NIDMAR, which spearheaded the program, said it is modelled off of a system used in Belgium, where disability management is a regulated and legislated profession.
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