Supported Employment Services for Persons with Developmental Disabilities: Unmet Promises and Future Challenges for Rehabilitation Counselors

2000 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 41-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles Edmund Degeneffe
Keyword(s):  
Developmental Disabilities ◽  
Service Delivery ◽  
Vocational Rehabilitation ◽  
Social Action ◽  
Supported Employment ◽  
Severe Disabilities ◽  
Rehabilitation Counselors ◽  
Employment Services ◽  
Future Challenges ◽  
Service Option

This article reviews the performance of supported employment as a service option for persons with developmental disabilities. In many ways, supported employment has not met its promises as a preferred vocational rehabilitation option, in such areas as choice, empowerment, and addressing the vocational needs of persons with severe disabilities. This article reviews ways in which rehabilitation counselors need to address supported employment’s shortcomings, both in service delivery and social action.

Benefits and Benefits Protection for Persons with Severe Disabilities Entering Supported Employment: A Guide for Vocational Rehabilitation Counselors

1990 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 31-35
Author(s):  
Stephen C. Moore ◽  
Thomas H. Powell
Keyword(s):  
Vocational Rehabilitation ◽  
Supported Employment ◽  
Severe Disabilities ◽  
Rehabilitation Counselors ◽  
Major Focus ◽  
Gainful Employment ◽  
Integrated Employment ◽  
Vocational Rehabilitation Counselors ◽  
Employment Programs ◽  
Supported Employment Programs

Integration has become a major focus for people with severe disabilities. One method of achieving integration is via supported employment programs. However, with supported employment comes the concern that the benefits gained by gainful employment may not match the benefits already being provided from public sources. In many cases these benefits need not be lost when a person with disabilities enters competitive, integrated employment. This article describes those public source benefits and describes how vocational rehabilitation counselors can maintain and protect those benefits for their consumers with severe disabilities who are in supported employment programs.

Supported Employment in Rehabilitation Counseling: Issues and Practices

1989 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 65-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edna Mora Szymanski ◽  
Randall M. Parker
Keyword(s):  
Community Participation ◽  
Professional Practice ◽  
Supported Employment ◽  
Rehabilitation Counseling ◽  
Severe Disabilities ◽  
Rehabilitation Counselors ◽  
Ecological Framework ◽  
Employment Services ◽  
Employment Training ◽  
Transitional Employment

Supported employment and time-limited, transitional employment training are among the services that can be provided by rehabilitation counselors to facilitate employment and community participation of people with severe disabilities. In this article we describe the provision of supported employment services within the context of the professional practice of rehabilitation counseling. An ecological framework for supported employment in rehabilitation counseling in described, issues affecting supported employment in rehabilitation counseling practice are presented, and the implications of supported employment for the profession of rehabilitation counseling are discussed.

Ethics in Supported Employment

1989 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 12-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeanne Boland Patterson ◽  
Jay Buckley ◽  
Michael Smull
Keyword(s):  
Ethical Behavior ◽  
Supported Employment ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Ethical Dilemmas ◽  
Rehabilitation Counselors ◽  
Rehabilitation Service ◽  
Employment Services ◽  
Ethical Concerns

The ethical issues in the delivery of supported employment services encompass many of the same ethical concerns rehabilitation counselors have had to address in providing any rehabilitation service. In addition, there are ethical issues which are unique to supported employment and the recipients of supported employment services. This article includes an overview of the personal and professional factors which influence ethical behavior, examples of common ethical issues within the phases of supported employment services, and recommendations for identifying and resolving ethical dilemmas in supported employment.

Supported Employment and Time-Limited Transitional Employment Training: Options For Rehabilitation Counselors

1988 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 11-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edna Mora Szymanski ◽  
Randall M. Parker
Keyword(s):  
Service Delivery ◽  
Supported Employment ◽  
Rehabilitation Counselors ◽  
Employment Opportunities ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
Rehabilitation Counselor ◽  
Employment Training ◽  
Support Employment ◽  
Transitional Employment ◽  
And Training

Support employment and time-limited transitional employment training are service options which can help rehabilitation counselors increase employment opportunities for persons with disabilities. This article provides definitions and describes the background, service delivery, and assessment and training approaches related to supported employment and time-limited transitional employment training. Resultant issues concerning the role and preparation of the rehabilitation counselor are also discussed.

Employment Outcomes for People with Moderate and Severe Disabilities: An Eight-Year Longitudinal Analysis of Supported Competitive Employment

1987 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 182-189 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark L. Hill ◽  
Paul H. Wehman ◽  
John Kregel ◽  
P. David Banks ◽  
Helen M. D. Metzler
Keyword(s):  
Supported Employment ◽  
Previous Analysis ◽  
Severe Disabilities ◽  
Competitive Employment ◽  
Employment Services ◽  
Direct Benefit ◽  
The Public ◽  
Financial Benefits ◽  
Benefit Cost ◽  
Benefits And Costs

The efforts of those advocating supported employment have resulted in expansion of the opportunities for people with moderate and severe disabilities in the past several years. Results reported previously on the benefits and costs associated with supported competitive employment have been extended in this article from the 4-year period in the previous analysis to the present 8-year analysis. This is one of the few benefit-cost analyses to be completed on people with mental retardation who have received supported competitive employment services. As in the previous analysis, these figures do not reflect theoretical projections, but direct placement data resulting from a longitudinal program. Our results show a final positive financial consequence accrued to the public of $1,057,000, of which more than $525,000 was a direct benefit of placing consumers with moderate and severe disabilities in supported competitive employment. Since this study extended over 8 years, all figures were corrected for inflation and discounting to 1986 (Quarter 1) dollars. By using individual analyses, it was shown that all consumers served benefited financially from the program. Results showed a substantial savings to taxpayers with the utilization of this model, along with significant financial benefits to all consumers, including those with moderate and severe disabilities.

Effect of Supported Employment on Vocational Rehabilitation Outcomes of Transition-Age Youth With Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities: A Case Control Study

2014 ◽  
Vol 52 (4) ◽  
pp. 296-310 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Wehman ◽  
Fong Chan ◽  
Nicole Ditchman ◽  
Hyun-Ju Kang
Keyword(s):  
Developmental Disabilities ◽  
Vocational Rehabilitation ◽  
Supported Employment ◽  
Case Control Study ◽  
Case Control ◽  
Intellectual And Developmental Disabilities ◽  
Transition Age Youth ◽  
Transition Age ◽  
Rehabilitation Outcomes ◽  
Control Study

Abstract The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of supported employment intervention on the employment outcomes of transition-age youth with intellectual and developmental disabilities served by the public vocational rehabilitation system using a case-control study design. Data for this study were extracted from the Rehabilitation Services Administration Case Service Report (RSA-911) database for fiscal year 2009. The sample included 23,298 youth with intellectual and developmental disabilities aged between 16 and 25 years old at the time of application. The classification and regression tree (CART) method was used to estimate propensity scores and to adjust for selection bias on the basis of all prominent covariates relevant to the dependent variable (i.e., competitive employment). Results yielded six homogeneous subgroups, and receipt of supported employment was found to increase the employment rates across all of the groups. The effect of supported employment was especially strong for youth who were Social Security beneficiaries, special education students, and individuals with intellectual disabilities or autism who were high school graduates. These findings suggest that supported employment is an effective service for enhancing the vocational rehabilitation outcomes of young adults and provides valuable information for policy makers, health care providers, rehabilitation counselors, and educators.

Empowerment and Choice in Supported Employment: Helping People to Help Themselves

1992 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 41-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marjorie F. Olney ◽  
Paul R. Salomone
Keyword(s):  
Consumer Choice ◽  
Supported Employment ◽  
Service System ◽  
Personal Control ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Severe Disabilities ◽  
Rehabilitation Counselors ◽  
Rehabilitation Service ◽  
Self Sufficiency ◽  
Vocational Success

This article describes the personal, professional and service system barriers that may impede consumer choice and personal control in obtaining vocational success. As rehabilitation counselors and other practitioners in the rehabilitation service delivery system have assumed more proactive placement and advocacy roles for persons with severe disabilities the tendency to manage decision-making more closely, so as to expedite planning progress, has increased. A number of clinical interventions to promote client self-sufficiency and self-esteem are recommended.

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