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Removing barriers to work: building economic security for people with psychiatric disabilities. |
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Critical Social Policy, 29(4), November 2009, pp.655-676. |
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0261-0183 |
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1461-703X |
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British Columbia (BC) is following a neo-liberal framework in restructuring the social welfare and mental health care system, thus adopting restrictive practices it sees as necessary to distinguish the ‘deserving’ from the ‘undeserving’ poor in order to discourage unwarranted dependence on state services, and this paper is based on research from two BC studies. The first examined how funding and policy changes in one health region were affecting housing, employment and income related support for people with psychiatric disabilities. The second considered how disability and employment incentives provided by the BC Ministry of Employment and Income Assistance since 2000 compared with those in other Canadian provinces and industrialised countries; It also reviewed community college supportive employment programmes. Using findings from these studies the authors argue that economic security is essential for mental health recovery, and that supported employment and social enterprise models are well suited to support these goals. They also contend that the aims and values underlying neo-liberalism, with its attendant welfare state restructuring, undermine the progressive vision of recovery and the practice of citizenship for people with psychiatric disabilities. |
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community development; income support; mental health problems; mixed economy of care; supported employment; |
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www.scie-socialcareonline.org.uk/profile.asp?guid=8a08a1fc-65b5-4428-8e4f-a95dbb86a21b |
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