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Expanding opportunity through partnership
- Author:
- POZNER Adam
- Journal article citation:
- A Life in the Day, 3(4), November 1999, pp.21-23.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Research has shown that work opportunities can play a key role in recovery from mental health problems. Describes the Expanding Opportunity Through Partnership, a two year programme that offers tailored development support to NHS trusts and social services departments who are being supported to modernise their work rehabilitation services and to work with other local agencies to create a broader range of options - for education and training, sheltered work and paid employment.
Open employment opportunities
- Author:
- POZNER Adam
- Journal article citation:
- A Life in the Day, 3(1), February 1999, pp.29-31.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
This article profiles a number of initiatives concerned with developing open employment opportunities for individuals with mental health problems - real jobs with market level wages. Four are agencies providing employment support directly to job-seekers, one is a national association promoting the supported employment or job coach model.