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Very few people with the most serious
mental illnesses have jobs, according to Crystal R. Blyler,
Ph.D., a social science analyst in the Division of Service
and Systems Improvement at SAMHSA's Center for Mental Health
Services (CMHS). Yet despite the fact that these individuals
want to work, they rarely receive vocational services that
could help them find and keep jobs.
A CMHS-funded study called the Employment
Intervention Demonstration Program (EIDP) explored ways of
helping people with serious mental illnesses fulfill their
employment dreams. Launched in 1995, the 5-year, multi-site
study sought to answer questions about the kind of services
that would be most useful in helping people with serious psychiatric
diagnoses obtain and retain jobs.
Now the answers are in, and they're already
informing the field. Several major journal articles have recently
emerged from the study, with more on the way.
To learn more about the EIDP, visit the
study's home page at www.psych.uic.edu
or to access the complete article click
here.
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