scholarly journals IPS Supported Employment for Transition Age Youth: Helping Youth with Serious Mental Health Conditions to Access Jobs, Education and Careers

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Swanson ◽  
Deborah Becker ◽  
Gary Bond ◽  
Kimberly Reeder ◽  
Marsha Ellison
Keyword(s):  
Supported Employment ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Mental Illnesses ◽  
Health Conditions ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Transition Age Youth ◽  
Individual Placement And Support ◽  
Transition Age ◽  
Serious Mental Health Conditions ◽  
Individual Placement

This manual describes IPS supported employment and education services for adolescents and young adults (IPS-Y). IPS stands for Individual Placement and Support and indicates a type of supported employment program that is evidence-based for people who have mental illnesses. Growing evidence indicates that IPS may be an effective approach for other populations and age groups as well. IPS practitioners in Maryland and other states helped us learn more about serving youth as a part of developing this manual. Young workers and students also described what helped them and what may benefit other youth. We appreciate their assistance in developing this manual.

Implementing Adapted Individual Placement and Support (IPS) Supported Employment for Transition-Age Youth in Texas

2019 ◽  
Vol 56 (3) ◽  
pp. 513-523
Author(s):  
Deborah Ann Cohen ◽  
Vanessa Vorhies Klodnick ◽  
Laura Stevens ◽  
Marc A. Fagan ◽  
E-Shawn Spencer
Keyword(s):  
Supported Employment ◽  
Transition Age Youth ◽  
Individual Placement And Support ◽  
Transition Age ◽  
Individual Placement

scholarly journals Building a Community of Practice to Support Young Adults with Serious Mental Health Conditions [English and Spanish versions]

2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Young Adults ◽  
Community Of Practice ◽  
Health Conditions ◽  
Transition Age Youth ◽  
Transition Age ◽  
Mental Health Conditions ◽  
Local Stakeholders ◽  
Youth And Young Adults ◽  
Serious Mental Health Conditions

A Community of Practice brings together groups of people who share a concern, a set of problems, a passion about a topic, and who deepen their knowledge and expertise in this area by interacting on an ongoing basis. The Transitions Research and Training Center assisted in the development of a Community of Practice on supporting Transition Age Youth and Young Adults with Serious Mental Health Conditions. The Northeast Massachusetts Community of Practice was composed of local stakeholders seeking to enhance services for this group.

scholarly journals Enhancing Work-Focused Supports for People with Severe Mental Illnesses in Australia

2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalia Contreras ◽  
Susan L. Rossell ◽  
David J. Castle ◽  
Ellie Fossey ◽  
Dea Morgan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Skills ◽  
Supported Employment ◽  
Cognitive Remediation ◽  
Mental Illnesses ◽  
Individual Placement And Support ◽  
Recent Success ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Employment Rates ◽  
Employment Programs ◽  
Individual Placement

Persons with severe mental illness (SMI) have reduced workforce participation, which leads to significant economic and social disadvantage. This theoretical review introduces the strategies that have been implemented to address this issue. These include Individual Placement and Support (IPS) services, the most widely researched form of supported employment, to which cognitive remediation has more recently been recognised in the USA, as an intervention to improve employment outcomes by addressing the cognitive impairments often experienced by people with SMI. The authors review the international literature and discuss specifically the Australian context. They suggest that Australia is in a prime position to engage clients in such a dual intervention, having had recent success with increasing access to supported employment programs and workforce reentry, through implementation of the Health Optimisation Program for Employment (HOPE). Such programs assist withgainingandmaintainingemployment. However, they do not address the cognitive issues that oftenpreventpersons with SMI from effectively participating in work. Thus, optimising current interventions, with work-focused cognitive skills development is critical to enhancing employment rates that remain low for persons with SMI.

scholarly journals Implementing Supported Employment. Lessons from the Making IPS Work Project

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (7) ◽  
pp. 1545 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Hutchinson ◽  
David Gilbert ◽  
Rachel Papworth ◽  
Jed Boardman
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Service ◽  
Support Services ◽  
Supported Employment ◽  
Evidence Base ◽  
Health Conditions ◽  
Individual Placement And Support ◽  
Psychosocial Services ◽  
Mental Health Conditions ◽  
Individual Placement

Individual Placement and Support (IPS) is an internationally accepted and effective form of supported employment for people with severe mental health conditions. Despite its strong evidence base, the implementation of IPS has been slow and inconsistent. In England, a demonstration project, Making IPS Work, was developed to offer support for the implementation of IPS in six local sites National Health Service Mental Health trusts. The project aimed to: Establish Individual Placement and Support services within clinical teams; develop high fidelity practice and leave a sustainable IPS service beyond the project. The number of people gaining open employment in each site was monitored. Fidelity checks were carried out at three sites by independent assessors. Stakeholders were interviewed over the 18-month lifetime of the implementation period to examine the experience of developing the services in the six sites. A total of 421 jobs were found for people with mental health conditions over 18 months with a large variation between the highest and lowest performing sites. The sites assessed for fidelity all attained the threshold for a ‘Good Fidelity’ service. The new services were readily accepted by mental health service users, clinical staff and managers across the trust sites. Maintaining the funding for the Individual Placement and Support services beyond the project period proved to be problematic for many sites. Placing the services within a broader strategy of improving psychosocial services and bringing together decision making at the corporate, commissioning and clinical management level were helpful in achieving success. The growth and maintenance of these services is difficult to achieve whilst the current cost pressures on the NHS continue.

Supported employment outcomes for transition age youth and young adults.

2012 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 171-179 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane Burke-Miller ◽  
Lisa A. Razzano ◽  
Dennis D. Grey ◽  
Crystal R. Blyler ◽  
Judith A. Cook
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Supported Employment ◽  
Employment Outcomes ◽  
Transition Age Youth ◽  
Transition Age ◽  
Youth And Young Adults
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