scholarly journals Australia’s Disability Employment Services Program: Participant Perspectives on Factors Influencing Access to Work

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (21) ◽  
pp. 11485
Author(s):  
Alexandra Devine ◽  
Marissa Shields ◽  
Stefanie Dimov ◽  
Helen Dickinson ◽  
Cathy Vaughan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Job Seekers ◽  
Employment Services ◽  
Program Participant ◽  
Improved Outcomes ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
Employment Programs ◽  
Disability Employment ◽  
Participant Perspectives ◽  
Models Of Service Delivery ◽  
Program Data

Disability employment programs play a key role in supporting people with disability to overcome barriers to finding and maintaining work. Despite significant investment, ongoing reforms to Australia’s Disability Employment Services (DES) are yet to lead to improved outcomes. This paper presents findings from the Improving Disability Employment Study (IDES): a two-wave survey of 197 DES participants that aims to understand their perspectives on factors that influence access to paid work. Analysis of employment status by type of barrier indicates many respondents experience multiple barriers across vocational (lack of qualifications), non-vocational (inaccessible transport) and structural (limited availability of jobs, insufficient resourcing) domains. The odds of gaining work decreased as the number of barriers across all domains increased with each unit of barrier reported (OR 1.22, 95% CI 1.07, 1.38). Unemployed respondents wanted more support from employment programs to navigate the welfare system and suggest suitable work, whereas employed respondents wanted support to maintain work, indicating the need to better tailor service provision according to the needs of job-seekers. Combined with our findings from the participant perspective, improving understanding of these relationships through in-depth analysis and reporting of DES program data would provide better evidence to support current DES reform and improve models of service delivery.

Function, health and psychosocial needs in job-seekers with anxiety, mood, and psychotic disorders who access disability employment services

Work ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 271-279 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lynda R. Matthews ◽  
Lynne M. Harris ◽  
Alison Jaworski ◽  
Ashraful Alam ◽  
Gokcen Bozdag
Keyword(s):  
Psychotic Disorders ◽  
Psychosocial Needs ◽  
Job Seekers ◽  
Employment Services ◽  
Disability Employment

scholarly journals Tracking metrics that matter for scaling up employment outcomes

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Alberto Migliore ◽  
John Butterworth ◽  
Jeannine Pavlak ◽  
Michael Patrick ◽  
Stephen Aalto
Keyword(s):  
Quality Improvement ◽  
Continuous Quality Improvement ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Scaling Up ◽  
Employment Outcomes ◽  
Job Seekers ◽  
Continuous Quality ◽  
Employment Supports ◽  
Employment Programs ◽  
Improved Methods

BACKGROUND: Supporting employment consultants in their work with job seekers is critical for increasing the employment outcomes of people with disabilities. OBJECTIVE: To better understand how to leverage data for supporting employment consultants, including what metrics to track, what to do with the data, and what can be improved. METHODS: A panel of three directors of employment programs addressed these questions as part of the Association of People Supporting Employment First (APSE) 2020 conference. RESULTS: Most employment service providers collect data for billing and compliance reporting. Innovative providers leverage data for quality improvement. CONCLUSIONS: Tracking metrics designed specifically for monitoring the implementation of effective employment supports is key for leveraging data for continuous quality improvement and thus improving job seekers’ employment outcomes.

scholarly journals Searching for employment: highly educated immigrant women and combined capabilities

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-42
Author(s):  
Tytti Steel ◽  
Marjut Jyrkinen
Keyword(s):  
Capability Approach ◽  
Immigrant Women ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Third Sector ◽  
Job Seekers ◽  
Job Market ◽  
Enabling Factors ◽  
Employment Services ◽  
Highly Educated ◽  
Gender And Age

Our paper addresses the ways in which highly educated immigrant women encounter and experience employment services in Finland. This qualitative study examines a group of women who have experience with both governmentally funded Employment and Economic Centre services (TE Services) and services offered by the third sector. The research question in this paper is as follows: How do the employment services support the capabilities of immigrant women job seekers trying to find work? Our analysis is inspired by Sen’s capability approach and Nussbaum’s concept of combined capabilities. The first empirical section addresses women with a foreign background as job seekers and their internal capabilities. We look at the enabling factors and hurdles faced by highly educated immigrant women trying to enter the job market due to their gender and age. In the second empirical section, we analyse how the combined capabilities are constructed through contacts with employment services.

DESerting clients? A Study Investigating Evidence-based Measures Supporting the Long-term Employment of Neurodiverse Australians

2019 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 455-466
Author(s):  
Damian Mellifont
Keyword(s):  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Good Practice ◽  
Policy Issue ◽  
Google Scholar ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Chi Square ◽  
Employment Services ◽  
Disability Employment ◽  
Chi Square Analysis

Employment outcomes for Australians with disability are weak and worsening. Aiming to assist in better understanding and redressing this troubling policy issue, this investigative research aims to (a) determine as to whether or not a significant relationship exists between disability type (i.e., physical or psychiatric) and long-term employment; and (b) identify evidence-based measures that might assist to improve the long-term employment of neurodiverse disability employment services (DES) clients. Addressing the first of these aims, an IBM SPSS-based chi-square analysis was conducted utilizing disability employment data sourced from the Australian Government. Targeting the second aim, a literature search was conducted utilizing Google Scholar, and thematic analysis was, then, applied on the results of this enquiry. Results of the chi-square analysis reveal that a DES client’s disability type appears to be associated with whether or not they attain long-term employment. From the 79 possibly relevant articles obtained from the Google Scholar enquiry, 13 were deemed relevant after applying the inclusion criteria. Thematic analysis constructed themes of resourcing, personalized support and education. In addition to offering a good practice employment guide based upon these themes, the study concludes by challenging Australian policymakers to consider the kinds of DES provider results that might not warrant reward.

Disability employment services under new public management: A comparison of Australia and Taiwan

2016 ◽  
Vol 61 (3) ◽  
pp. 437-450
Author(s):  
Hsiu-shan Yeh ◽  
Wan-I Lin
Keyword(s):  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
Employment Services ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Welfare Benefits ◽  
New Public ◽  
The Government ◽  
Disability Employment ◽  
For Profit Organizations

In the 1990s, both Australia and Taiwan were influenced by new public management (NPM) and subsequently reformed their public employment services. However, the reforms of the two countries have led to divergent results. This study assumes that the essential differences lay in the mobilization capacity of the disabled rights advocacy organizations and the disability employment benefits. Taiwan’s disability employment services (supported employment), though privatized, are limited to nonprofit organizations (NPOs), while for-profit organizations (POs) remain absent in this area. In Australia, the employment services (open employment services for people with disabilities) have been privatized, and for-profit organizations are encouraged to compete with one another to enhance the service quality and to reduce the costs. By providing job-search benefits for disabled people and implementing workfare policy, the Australian government reforms have resulted in the change of the relationship between the government and the citizens. In contrast, since the Taiwanese government never provided sufficient social welfare benefits for disabled people, they have to actively seek employment not after encouragement from the government, but as a result of their desperate need to earn a living. Despite the two countries’ differences, the force of neoliberalism, along with NPM, ostensibly continues to be a part of their employment policies for the socially underprivileged.

Realigning Organizational Culture, Resources, and Community Roles: Changeover to Community Employment

1994 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 105-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joyce M. Albin ◽  
Larry Rhodes ◽  
David Mank
Keyword(s):  
Supported Employment ◽  
Telephone Survey ◽  
Primary Target ◽  
Target Groups ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Employment Services ◽  
Work Settings ◽  
Community Roles ◽  
Employment Programs ◽  
National Experience

Although adults with severe mental retardation were one of the primary target groups intended to benefit from supported employment when it first emerged, the vast majority continue to be served in segregated sheltered work or non-work settings. To change this picture, many have believed that resources currently invested in day activity and sheltered employment programs must be redirected to supported employment. Recent studies suggest, however, that most rehabilitation organizations are adding supported employment to their existing array of services, rather than pursuing total changeover from facility-based to community-based employment support. If these data reflect the national experience, the anticipated and necessary shift of resources from segregated to community employment services is not occurring. To supplement existing data, a telephone survey was conducted of eight rehabilitation organizations pursuing changeover. This paper provides information on the experience of these eight organizations related to their reinvestment and agency changeover to supported employment, and offers recommendations for the future.

scholarly journals The SEEMP Approach to Semantic Interoperability for E-Employment

2009 ◽  
pp. 105-126
Author(s):  
E. Della Valle ◽  
D. Cerizza ◽  
I. Celino ◽  
M.G. Fugini ◽  
J. Estublier ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Data Exchange ◽  
Semantic Interoperability ◽  
Public Employment ◽  
Job Seekers ◽  
Employment Services ◽  
European Project ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Shared Commitment

SEEMP is a European Project that promotes increased partnership between labour market actors and the development of closer relations between private and public Employment Services, making optimal use of the various actors’ specific characteristics, thus providing job-seekers and employers with better services. The need for a flexible collaboration gives rise to the issue of interoperability in both data exchange and share of services. SEEMP proposes a solution that relies on the concepts of services and semantics in order to provide a meaningful service-based communication among labour market actors requiring a minimal shared commitment.

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