sheltered workshop

American  

noun

1. a place of employment for persons with disabilities where their rights are protected and their needs are met.

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Example Sentences

“The bakery shows that there are alternatives to the sheltered workshop model,” Sebastian explains to me during my visit.

From Slate • Jul. 27, 2023

Mr. Cusack worked at a sheltered workshop in the Chicago suburbs for many years, packing boxes and doing other manual labor, and lived with his parents until moving to Good Shepherd after he turned 40.

From Washington Post • Dec. 22, 2020

Who You Calling Slow? was made alongside Jane and her sheltered workshop peers and is reportedly the first album released that spotlights the developmentally disabled population.

From The Guardian • Sep. 17, 2020

And I remember being at OhioHealth announcing that we were going to get kids out of the sheltered workshop into places and businesses like Kroger or wherever.

From Washington Times • Mar. 7, 2018

What is more, investigators determined that a school-based sheltered workshop at Mount Pleasant High School in Providence had become a kind of feeder system into the Training Thru Placement operation.

From New York Times • Apr. 8, 2014