Midwives Nutritionist – dietician Social Workers Other Rehabilitation workers 1.3 Community Health Workers Barangay Health Workers Volunteer Health Workers Barangay Nutrition Scholar Community-based rehabilitation field worker (local supervisor) The training should include, but shall not be limited to, the following: 1. Early Detection and Identification of Disabilities 2. Immunization 3. Family Care Program for the Disabled in the Community 4. Psychosocial Concerns of Disabled Persons: Detection and Management of Psychosocial Problems Among Disabled Persons 5. Nutrition Education 6. Genetic Counseling 7. Psychiatric and Medical Emergencies: Identification and Management of Psychiatric Emergencies 8. Rehabilitation Procedures Including Dangers and Precautions 9. Interdisciplinary Approach: Tran disciplinary Awareness and Role Functioning 10. Environmental Hazards 11. Referral Network 12. Safe Motherhood 13. Safe Drugs RULE V SECTION 1. Auxiliary Social Services The State shall ensure that the marginalized persons are provided with the necessary auxiliary services that will restore their social functioning and participation in community affairs. Toward this end, the Department of Social Welfare and Development shall develop and implement programs on auxiliary social services that respond to the needs of marginalized disabled persons. With the implementation of the Local Government Code of 1991, Department of Social Welfare and Development devolved the above services for abandoned, neglected, abused and unattached disabled members of the family to the municipal and city government. The responsibility for provision of these services shall rest on the mayor who shall assign the implementation of these services to the DSWD devolved social worker in the municipality/city. When there are no social workers among devolved staff, the mayor should hire at least one to ensure effective implementation of these services. The DSWD shall develop the standards of these services, and assist in building the capability of the assigned social worker through training and technical consultation and regular monitoring of these services. The Social Worker shall provide these services through the following procedures: A. Provide subsidized program for the acquisition of prosthetic devices and Medical Intervention on Specialty Services. This service shall assist the marginalized disabled person to improve his physical residual capacity through medical intervention and/or use of technical devices. The City/Municipal Social Worker shall undertake the following steps: 1. Inform the community of the availability of the assistance for physical restoration services for disabled persons. 2. Refer the client to a doctor in the Regional Hospital or any other government hospital specializing in the provision of physical restoration devices for medical and physical assessment to determine the need for physical restoration. 3. Consult and coordinate with attending physician the need for prosthetic devices and/or medical intervention to restore residual physical capacities. Specification of prosthetic devices shall be recommend by the medical specialist.

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