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Supported Employment IPS Strategies for Assisting Individuals with Substance Use Disorders Obtain Employment

Room Leeward 76-77

Speaker(s): 

Sandra Reese, BS

Description: 

Research shows that people with dual disorders (i.e., a co-occurring mental illness and substance use disorder) are successful in supported employment programs and that employment can be a crucial step in their recovery. This session will describe the eight practice principles of evidence-based supported employment and then discuss specific guidelines that apply to people with co-occurring disorders.

Objectives

1. List at least two ways that employment can help people recover from substance use disorders.
2. Describe two common myths and facts regarding co-occurring disorders.
3. List four strategies that IPS practitioners use to help people work despite substance use disorders.

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Reese, Sandra, BS

Sandra Langfitt Reese is a trainer and consultant for The IPS Employment Center at Research Foundation Mental Hygiene (RFMH) Columbia University. Since 2006, Sandra has assisted with providing system conversion and capacity building in provision of integrated employment services with states, counties, and countries within the International IPS Learning Community, which includes 27 states, counties and 7 countries serving individuals with mental health conditions. She has also assisted counties and states outside of the IPS Learning Community with pilot projects to demonstrate the effectiveness of IPS.
Sandra has worked as an IPS supervisor for 10 years, as a statewide IPS trainer for the Oregon Supported Employment Center for Excellence and she worked in community mental health for over 25 years as the director of supported employment and education.

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How Does Providing Evidence-based Supported Employment IPS Impact Social Determinants of Health?

Room Leeward 76-77

Speaker(s): 

Sandra Reese, BS

Description: 

According to the World Health Organization, people with serious mental health disorders die 10-25 years earlier than the general population. This session will explore why employment is a critical mental health intervention and what leadership and mental health practitioners can do to promote employment.

Objectives

  • List at least two reasons why employment is a critical mental health intervention
  • List at least three reasons why employment isn’t seen as a central focus of the public mental health system.
  • List four strategies for how to promote employment within the public mental health system.
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Missouri Job Center Services

Room Leeward 76-77

 

Speaker(s):

Luetjen, Chad

Description

Presentation on services offered at Missouri Job Centers for jobseekers and employers. With details and discussion on Job Center Service Delivery, Services for Job Seekers, Services for Employers, WIOA Title I, and WIOA Title II. As well as an over view on Work Opportunity Tax Credits, Federal Bonding Program, and Job Center partner agencies.

Objectives

1. Define job center services for Jobseekers
2. Define job center services for employers
3. Describe educational and training opportunities available for jobseekers and employers

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Supporting Employment: Helping People with Employment Recovery Goals

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Parasol II

 

Speaker(s):

Lynde, David, MSW

Description

Evidenced-based practices like Supported Employment (SE) are not always available to all people in services. This session provides participants with the opportunity to learn about and explore strategies for helping providers of services to be respectful, responsive, and supportive regarding people in services with employment recovery goals. The session will also include lessons learned regarding enhancing agency leadership support for people in services with employment-related recovery goals.

Objectives

1. Describe how some of the practice principles of Supported Employment can be effectively applied in settings where access to Supported Employment is not available.
2. Identify key strategies and techniques for supporting interest in employment services by people in services.
3. Explain the important roles that team members play in helping people in services to be successful with employment-related recovery goals when Supported Employment is not available.

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Supported Education: Helping People with Education and Training Goals

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Parasol II

 

Speaker(s):

Lynde, David, MSW

Description

This workshop provides an overview of the principles of Supported Education.  The workshop will address some of the strategies and techniques used to support people with mental illness in developing and obtaining their educational goals.

Objectives

1. Participants will identify the basic principles of Supported Education
2. Participants will be able to describe useful educational interventions and strategies.
3. Participants will be able to describe some of the challenges and associated strategies for engaging and working with local secondary school systems.
4. Participants will be able to identify some of the challenges and associated strategies used to help people with mental illness to be successful with post-secondary educational programs.

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Luetjen, Chad

As a 14 year veteran of state service and a current member of the Missouri Department of Higher Education and Workforce Development (DHEWD) Organizational Learning Team I have held many positions with DHEWD including Case Manager, Customer and Technical Support Unit, and Office of Apprenticeship and work based learning. In that time I have had first-hand knowledge providing and assisting with providing services offered by our full service Job Centers. In my current roll I create and present training to DHEWD state staff and partner agencies.

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Missouri Job Center Services

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Benefits and Work Made Simple

Speaker(s):

Dalto, Michael, BA, CPWIC

Presentation:

This webinar introduces disability professionals (case managers, therapists, etc.) to the basics of SSDI, SSI, Medicare and Medicaid (also called MO HealthNet) benefits and how work affects them. Trainees will learn how to offer basic, positive information about the impact of work on benefits to people with disabilities who are considering work. The goal of the training is for participants to “first, do no harm” – to be sure they provide accurate, encouraging information about work and benefits, instead of perpetuating myths and misinformation. The webinar includes videos, fact sheets and practical exercises

Objectives:

  1. Describe basic SSDI, SSI, Medicare and Medicaid (MO HealthNet) eligibility and work rules

  2. Respond to concerns and myths about benefits and work

  3. Refer to a benefit specialist when needed

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Dalto, Michael, BA, CPWIC

Michael Dalto has delivered training and technical assistance on SSI, Social Security Disability, other public benefits and related work incentives for over 30 years. He created state benefits planning certification in Maryland, where he trained, certified and technically assisted over 50 benefits planners. He consulted with the Institute for Community Inclusion of the University of Massachusetts Boston on the SGA Project, a research effort that tested interventions to support vocational rehabilitation consumers in Kentucky and Minnesota to work their way off Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) benefits. He has written training materials about benefits, including a module on federal housing assistance programs for the WIPA & Community Partner Work Incentives Counseling Training Manual, produced by Virginia Commonwealth University’s National Training and Data Center and used to train and provide certification for benefits planners nationwide. He has helped create tiered benefits planning models in Michigan, Missouri, New York and California. He has integrated direct service into his work, providing benefits planning to VR consumers and blind food vendors. He currently consults with Griffin-Hammis Associates and the National Association of Blind Merchants.

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Benefits and Work Made Simple


 

 

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Helping People Achieve Employment-related Recovery Goals without IPS Services

Speaker(s):

Lynde, David, MSW

Presentation:

While many people with mental health challenges have employment as one of their recovery related goals, not all people have access to Individual Placement and Supports (IPS) or Supported Employment services. This workshop will provide information, ideas, strategies and lessons learned regarding helping people to achieve their employment related goals when access to IPS is not an option for the providers or the people in services.


Objectives:

  1. Identify the principles of successful IPS services
  2. Describe how to play a critical role in helping people with employment goals even without IPS services based on the principles of IPS
  3. Describe basic strategies and skills to enhance employment success when a referral to IPS is not possible