1.16.2025

EDI LEARNING COMMUNITY CALL
Mission: Promoting ongoing learning and sharing that increases equity, diversity, and inclusion throughout the IPS Learning Community and across all IPS stakeholders.
The EDI IPS Learning Community invites you to join quarterly interactive sessions. Mark your calendars! The first webinar is on January 28th. Visit the Equity page  for more information.

11.13.2024

The IPS Employment Center will be offering a new online course about mental illness and recovery. This course is for IPS specialists, case managers, VR counselors, family members or anyone else who wants to learn more about mental illnesses. Included in each unit are specific diagnosis, symptoms, treatment, and stories of how individuals live productive and meaningful lives! Click here for more details. 

9.6.2024

Click Here to read an article on The Effectiveness of Peer Support in Personal and Clinical Recovery.

8.15.2024

ASPIRE Issue Brief: Implementing Individual Placement and Support in rural communities: Barriers and strategies.

7.24.2024

Funding Crosswalks: Coordinating and Leveraging Resources to Increase Competitive Integrated Employment

Prepared for the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP) by Virginia Selleck, this guide includes funding strategies for IPS, and resources for acquiring further information for individual states. Click here to view the report.

3.15.2024

Employment provides many benefits to support recovery journeys, such as adding purpose and structure to one’s day. Please join NAMI on April 18th for a conversation about how long-term employment can support mental health recovery.

To view the recording, please visit: NAMI Ask the Expert

6.29.22

A huge congratulations to the IPS Employment Center’s longtime director, Debbie Becker, who retires today. Thanks to Debbie for her years of dedication and fantastic leadership.  We welcome Sarah Swanson as the new director of the IPS Learning Community and look forward to her guidance and continued commitment to this community.

5.20.22

We have a new course! The course is for non-employment practitioners, like counselors, therapists, housing specialists, peer specialists, and others. Follow the link to the course page to learn more and sign up.

4.5.22

We have a new committee – the Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) Committee! Learn more about the committee here and be sure to look for future updates from them in the document library under the new EDI Committee category.

4.1.22

The IPS 25-item fidelity scale is now available in French. Click here to start using it – or find it in the document library under fidelity tools.

3.30.22

Learn more about funding sources for IPS in this new article by Debbie Becker, Sandy Reese, and Claire Courtney in the latest issue of Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal.

3.1.22

We’ve shared two new issue briefs in our document library. Go to the library or click these links to read about Measuring Access to IPS and Employment Outcomes for Historically Underserved Groups and State-Level Barriers and Facilitators to IPS Implementation.