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SAMHSA's Center for Mental Health
Services (CMHS) offers a supported employment toolkit designed
to help state mental health agencies and others provide help
for employment.
Part of the Evidence-Based Practice Implementation
Resource Kit series, the toolkit offers downloads of articles
about supported employment plus information for consumers,
families and friends, practitioners, mental health program
leaders, and public mental health authorities. The site also
provides information about creating supported employment programs
and monitoring their effectiveness, including a workbook for
practitioners.
The toolkit is available at www.mentalhealth.samhsa.gov/cmhs/communitysupport/toolkits/employment.
With funding from CMHS and the National
Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research, a publication
called Seeking Supported Employment: What You Need to Know
takes the message directly to consumers themselves.
Co-authored by Judith A. Cook, Ph.D., Principal
Investigator of the Employment Intervention Demonstration
Program's Coordinating Center, the booklet describes the different
ways of finding jobs and then offers suggestions for getting
started with supported employment. A checklist allows consumers
to rate how well a given program adheres to the evidence base
on supported employment.
The publication is available online
at www.psych.uic.edu/eidp/seekingemployment.pdf.
For more information on other CMHS programs, visit the SAMHSA
Web site at www.samhsa.gov.
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