Social Inclusion & Employment Support
Chang Gung University supports people with psychosocial disabilities in strengthening vocational capabilities, exploring employment opportunities, and participating more fully in society. Through practical training, simulated workplace experiences, peer-based education, and digital learning development, CGU works to reduce barriers to social and economic participation.
University Social Responsibility Project
Competence, Inclusion and Sustainability: Employment Empowerment and Peer Support for People with Disabilities
The project focuses on vocational empowerment, employment transition, and peer support for people with psychosocial disabilities. By connecting community-based training, simulated workplace experiences, lived-experience education, and emerging digital learning tools, the project aims to strengthen social participation and create more inclusive pathways toward employment.
Addressing Barriers to Employment
Supporting Participation Beyond Traditional Employment Pathways
People with psychosocial disabilities may encounter structural barriers in employment and social participation. The project responds by strengthening vocational skills, creating supportive practice environments, and developing peer-based mechanisms that enable participants to build confidence, experience work roles, and explore more diverse forms of social and economic participation.
Implementation Approach
Key Areas of Action
Vocational Empowerment & New Forms of Work
Nearly twenty workshops have been carried out at community and healthcare-based service sites. Activities focus on practical preparation, vocational skills, and exploration of diverse employment possibilities.
Simulated Workplace Experience
Supported carts and simulated workplace settings provide opportunities to practice work tasks, strengthen confidence, and develop practical employment skills in supportive environments.
Contact-Based Education & Citizen Lecturers
People with lived experience are supported to become citizen lecturers and participate directly in university education, helping students better understand mental health, prevention, help-seeking, and social inclusion.
Digital Mental Health Learning Materials
The project is developing digital experiential mental health materials and exploring mixed virtual-reality applications to support more immersive learning and strengthen mental health literacy.
Project Highlights
Learning through Lived Experience
Bringing Lived Experience into the Classroom
Community participants are trained to become citizen lecturers, allowing people with lived experience to move from being service recipients to active contributors in university education.
By learning directly from personal experience, students develop greater understanding of mental health, social inclusion, and help-seeking while reducing distance and stereotypes between different groups in society.
Developing New Approaches to Mental Health Education
Mixed-Reality Learning for Mental Health Education
The project has begun planning digital experiential materials that combine virtual reality and other interactive formats. A mixed-reality software prototype is expected to be developed in 2026, providing a future foundation for more immersive mental health education and experiential learning.
Toward a More Inclusive Society
Creating Pathways toward Employment, Participation and Social Inclusion
Chang Gung University connects vocational empowerment, peer support, experiential education, and emerging digital tools to strengthen social participation, support economic independence, and cultivate a more inclusive understanding of people with psychosocial disabilities.