Peer Support – A Theoretical Perspective
This article offers one theoretical perspective of peer support and attempts to define the elements that, when reinforced through education and training, provide a new cultural context for healing and recovery. Persons labeled with psychiatric disability have become...Individual Placement and Support – A Model to get Employed for People with Mental Illness
Lack of participation in the open labour market is highly prevalent for people with a mental illness across countries, and the proportion of people who get some kind of sickness benefit because of mental illness is steadily growing in Europe. Vocational rehabilitation...Making It Work – Policy Framework for Employment Supports for People with Series Mental Illness
With the release of Making It Happen, the government set the direction for a three-year plan to reform Ontario’s mental health system. A key component of a reformed mental health system is the provision of and implementation of an employment supports strategy that is...A Review of the Literature On Peer Support in Mental Health Services
Background: Although mutual support and self-help groups based on shared experience play a large part in recovery, the employment of peer support workers (PSWs) in mental health services is a recent development. However, peer support has been implemented outside the...
WEBINAR SERIES – A Kitchen Table Dialogue on the Future of Work and Workers: Just Transition Towards an Inclusive Economy
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WEBINAR SERIES – A Kitchen Table Dialogue on the Future of Work and Workers: The Role of Government
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WEBINAR SERIES – Africa & The Future of Work: How Innovators are Responding to the Needs of the 21st Century
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