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Individual Placement and Support (IPS) is the gold-standard evidence-based practice helping people diagnosed with serious mental illness find and keep personally meaningful jobs. Developed over three decades ago and increasingly in use today throughout the United States and indeed around the world, IPS has a very strong research base and impressive success in real-world settings.
The purpose of this piece is to take a look at potential advocacy activities to help overcome the frustrating barriers that can impede both the staff helpers and their administrators from providing evidence-based services leading to better employment outcomes. Clarity about what goes into the bureaucratic “sausage” may offer paths for advocacy, both at the local program level and at the state departments level.
Searching for employment opportunities has never been an easy road for anyone. But for those individuals who are older and have a history of managing a psychiatric disability, there are even more challenges. These job seekers face the “Double jeopardy” effect. Older adults (40+) with disabilities face compounding discrimination—due to both age and disability—creating greater obstacles in hiring and workplace treatment.
No one grows up dreaming of being poor or permanently dependent on public benefits. Yet, for too many people with psychiatric disabilities, that becomes their reality – not because of a lack of ability or ambition, but because the system designed to support them often makes it harder for them to break free. This article is about changing that story – about helping people from patient to paycheck, from being defined by a diagnosis to being empowered by purpose.
Over the past three decades, and around the country, peer support specialists (sometimes called peer supporters, certified peer specialists, or simply “peers”) have entered mental health service agency’s workforce. While each state has its own training and credentialing process, all peer support specialists have personal experience of mental health or substance use challenges – including depression, thoughts of suicide, drinking or drug use, hearing voices, autism, and in some cases may be family members.
by Dr. Susan McGurk and Dr. Kim Mueser We are constantly barraged in our daily lives with new information competing for our limited attention. And there is even more information available than ever before, at the tip of our fingers, on our cell phones and computers. We need to manage the beckoning alerts of tweets, […]
The role of peer specialists in behavioral health settings has grown dramatically in the last couple of decades. But, as a relatively new addition to the workforce, it is experiencing "growing pains". Common experiences relayed by peer support workers include a lack of clarity about how their role fits into the mental health workplace and confusion about what their work tasks should and should not be. For some behavioral healthcare workers, research suggests that this results in stress, distress and burnout, all of which have worsened because of the pandemic
The Online Technical Assistance (OTAR) model was developed as a pilot program, with the goal of assisting organizations (e.g. state agencies, providers, for- and non-profit entities) that want to improve their employment outcomes for people with psychiatric disabilities by improving their policies, funding, and system design.
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