What is the role of the IPS Peer Support Specialist? What are their responsibilities?
We do not know of research that is specific to the role of peers in [...]
Why are two employment specialists required to meet full IPS team unit standards?
Forming a unit of at least two employment specialists provides the organizational structure for sharing [...]
As an IPS supervisor, how would I know if my program was performing well?
Using data from a 13-state learning collaborative that included 8 years of program data, we [...]
Wouldn’t it be better to have someone on the team who does job placement, rather than to ask each employment specialist to do job development?
In IPS programs, each employment specialist provides the full-range of employment services to the people [...]
What are some ways that we can increase our time spent in the community to meet the fidelity standard of 65% or more?
Explain the rationale for spending time in the community. Time in the community is correlated [...]
What does a typical week for an employment specialist look like?
Many employment specialists use time at the beginning or end of the day to return [...]
How can employment specialists keep up with all of their duties when one of their clients needs intensive job coaching (20 or more hours per week) because of a co-occurring cognitive disorder?
Some programs in this situation have contracted with people to provide job coaching when it [...]