Nai Disha -Vocational Training Center For Young Adults:

Nai Disha, as the same name signifies, is a new direction taken by Tamana. Nai Disha was conceived with the realization that the young adults at Tamana have to be equipped with skills to adapt appropriately to the needs of adulthood and thereby function as an independent whole-physically and emotionally. The program aims at creating an infrastructure, which ensures a smooth graduation from school to the outside world, for the young adult and the family. It also aims to ensure training and placements of the young adults in various vocations and organizations. This can either be done independently in the residential center or by associating with various sheltered workshops and training institutions. The vocational training program aims at the following-:

1) To develop relevant vocational skills and competence among the intellectually and multiply disabled youth to improve their quality of life.

2) To serve intellectually and multiply disabled youth, emphasizing school to career and other career readiness programs in the partnership with the parents, disabled friendly industries and corporate houses.

3) Build awareness about career and employment options for intellectually and multiply disabled individual who face significant barriers to employment; and provide education, training and workplace experiences so they may actively pursue these options.

4) Provide education in the fundamentals of business and economics, the importance of savings, the basics of personal financial management and related consumer issues

5) Students are assessed for ability and interest in learning skills for life vocations at Nai Disha Vocational Training Center. The areas of training are varied and dynamic and are sometimes introduced to suit the needs of particular students. Specific options include the following:

Textiles Printing Unit
Over the years this unit has grown into a sheltered workshop catering to orders round the year. Young adults here are trained on every aspect of screen printing, block printing tie and dye -starting from selecting the kind of materiel used for mixing of colors, printing, dying and curing of all the items made. A wide range of products are designed in this unit- silk / chiffon block printed scarves, kurtas, skirts and coasters; screen printed hand towels, T- shirts, table cloths, tea cozies; block printed and tie and dye dupattas.

Office skill management
Wherein depending on the competencies, a student is trained in office skills like typing, filing, photocopying, simple banking operations, stock-taking and answering phone calls.
Apart from this a computer centre at the school functions to equip the young adult with secretarial and accounting training for possible job placement besides enhancing their thinking skills and reasoning ability. This centre models the path for awareness, exploration, preparation, placement and follow up.

Paper Bag Unit
The aim of starting this unit was that it should filtrate of the market by selling and displaying in the shops, apart from the catering to the individual orders.
A core team of students is selected for this unit, keeping in mind their interest and competence. Each crease and fold is done by the young adult of our school with / without assistance of a teacher. Every effect is made to check the esthetics value and quality of the product. At present we are catering to individual orders, stores and organizations.

Paper recycling unit
The world is going ecofriendly and we wanted to the cause, thus started the concept of recycling unit. Here students are involved in tearing the newspaper and other rough paper are used at school. The student's there by learns to make hand made papers. which are used for selling, making files, folders and other products.

Pottery unit
Pottery has become a very popular in the present day world as a hobby and as a subject because of its therapeutic nature and educative value. Here the students learn to kneed the clay, mould it and give the unique designs. Gradually they are picking up the dynamics of the product and its usefulness at home and in the market.

Other skills that are taught are- · Home management unit- basic home management skills of cooking, baking, serving and computer skills training · Gift outlet management. · Candle making · Stationary Production- Making greeting cards, envelops , writing pads, file folders · Gardening