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Adapting the individual placement and support model with homeless young adults
- Authors:
- FERGUSON Kristin M., XIE Bin, GLYNN Shirley
- Journal article citation:
- Child and Youth Care Forum, 41(3), June 2012, pp.277-294.
- Publisher:
- Springer
This study adapts the evidence-based intervention the Individual Placement and Support (IPS) for use with homeless young adults with mental illness. Convenience sampling was used to recruit 20 homeless young adults (ages 18–24) with mental illness from the host agency. Participants received the IPS intervention over 10 months. A comparison sample was used at a separate agency of 16 homeless young adults with mental illness, who received standard agency services. Using a pre-post, self-comparison quasi-experimental design, the impact of the IPS was assessed on five employment outcomes: (1) ever-worked rate, (2) working-at-follow-up rate, (3) monthly work rate, (4) weekly work hours and (5) weekly income. Results found that the IPS group was significantly more likely to have worked at some point over the 10-month study as well as to have worked a greater number of months overall. The study demonstrates that the IPS model is adaptable to work with homeless young adults with mental illness and is associated with successful retention and employment outcomes.