1. Recovery & Evidence-Based Supported Employment
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2. Important themes of ________?
Self-directed
Individualized
Empowering
Holistic
Non-Linear
Strengths-based
Peer Supports
Respect
Responsibility
Hope
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Rockville Institute, Westat

3. What is Recovery? What is not Recovery?

4. Recovery?
“I need to be given advice and guidance about work so I won’t make any mistakes or fail”
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Rockville Institute, Westat

5. Recovery?
“I want to work, working is what men do. Recovery means mental illness is not the center of my world.”
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Rockville Institute, Westat

6. Recovery?
“Someday, I hope to be compliant so I will be able to think about getting a small part-time cleaning job on the agency work crew”
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Rockville Institute, Westat

7. Recovery?
“Before I was really depressed. But after I started working, it was a relief. I feel better working…”
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Rockville Institute, Westat

8. Recovery?
“I hope that someday I will be able to work in a sheltered workshop”
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Rockville Institute, Westat

9. Recovery?
“I have a dream that someday soon I will be able to work in a sheltered setting for four hours a week”
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Rockville Institute, Westat

10. Recovery?
“I have my own goals to do my own thing. That’s what gives my life meaning.”
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Rockville Institute, Westat

11. Recovery?
“My life has enough meaning now that I have a psychiatrist, medications and a case manager. Why would I mess that up with work?”
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Rockville Institute, Westat

12. National Consensus Statement on Mental Health Recovery
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Rockville Institute, Westat

13. Self-Direction
Consumers lead, control, exercise choice over, and determine their own path of recovery by optimizing autonomy, independence, and control of resources to achieve a self-determined life. By definition, the recovery process must be self-directed by the individual, who defines his or her own life goals and designs a unique path towards those goals.
The IPS Employment Center
Rockville Institute, Westat

14. Individualized and Person-Centered
There are multiple pathways to recovery based on an individual’s unique strengths and resiliencies as well as his or her needs, preferences, experiences (including past trauma), and cultural background in all of its diverse representations….
The IPS Employment Center
Rockville Institute, Westat

15. Empowerment
Consumers have the authority to choose from a range of options and to participate in all decisions—including the allocation of resources—that will affect their lives, and are educated and supported in so doing….
The IPS Employment Center
Rockville Institute, Westat

16. Holistic
Recovery encompasses an individual’s whole life, including mind, body, spirit, and community. Recovery embraces all aspects of life, including housing, employment, education, mental health and healthcare treatment and services, complementary and naturalistic services, addictions treatment, spirituality, creativity, social networks, community participation, and family supports as determined by the person….
The IPS Employment Center
Rockville Institute, Westat

17. Non-Linear
Recovery is not a step-by-step process but one based on continual growth, occasional setbacks, and learning from experience. Recovery begins with an initial stage of awareness in which a person recognizes that positive change is possible….
The IPS Employment Center
Rockville Institute, Westat

18. Strengths-Based
Recovery focuses on valuing and building on the multiple capacities, resiliencies, talents, coping abilities, and inherent worth of individuals. By building on these strengths, consumers leave stymied life roles behind and engage in new life roles (e.g., partner, caregiver, friend, student, employee)….
The IPS Employment Center
Rockville Institute, Westat

19. Peer Support
Mutual support—including the sharing of experiential knowledge and skills and social learning—plays an invaluable role in recovery. Consumers encourage and engage other consumers in recovery and provide each other with a sense of belonging, supportive relationships, valued roles, and community.
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Rockville Institute, Westat

20. Respect
Community, systems, and societal acceptance and appreciation of consumers —including protecting their rights and eliminating discrimination and stigma—are crucial in achieving recovery. Self-acceptance and regaining belief in one’s self are particularly vital. Respect ensures the inclusion and full participation of consumers in all aspects of their lives.
The IPS Employment Center
Rockville Institute, Westat

21. Responsibility
Consumers have a personal responsibility for their own self-care and journeys of recovery. Taking steps towards their goals may require great courage. Consumers must strive to understand and give meaning to their experiences and identify coping strategies and healing processes to promote their own wellness.
The IPS Employment Center
Rockville Institute, Westat

22. Hope
Recovery provides the essential and motivating message of a better future— that people can and do overcome the barriers and obstacles that confront them. Hope is internalized; but can be fostered by peers, families, friends, providers, and others. Hope is the catalyst of the recovery process….
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Rockville Institute, Westat

23. Holistic Peer Support Non-Linear Strength-Based Responsibility
Empowerment
Person Centered
Self-Direction
Hope
Respect
SE works together with other integrated services to help with all aspects of life, including housing, employment, education, substance use and mental health.
SE fosters hope and motivation for a better future while helping people overcome barriers and obstacles as they achieve their own employment recovery goals.
SE encourages personal responsibility for each person’s own recovery journey. SE supports people as they take steps towards achieving their employment goals and enhance their own wellness.
SE works with the person’s individual strengths and resiliencies combined with each person’s own unique preferences, needs, and experiences.
SE honors people’s choices and their right to exercise control of SE resources in directing their own path to obtaining and retaining employment.
SE affords people the right to choose from a range of employment options and to actively participate in all employment decisions.
SE services are designed to support each person’s continual growth, occasional setbacks, and ongoing learning from employment experiences. SE is not a prescribed step by step process.
SE helps people move beyond stymied roles and develop new meaningful roles through employment by building on their strengths, talents, resiliencies, coping skills and recovery goals.
SE promotes the sharing of personal stories by people in recovery to provide each other with hope, strategies and supportive relationships, as people develop valued employment roles in their communities.
SE helps people challenge discrimination and stigma while increasing people’s own belief in one’s self and one’s abilities through competitive employment success.
Elements of Recovery
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Rockville Institute, Westat

24. Recovery Concepts in IPS Supported Employment
Self-directed 
Individualized 
Empowering 
Holistic 
Non-Linear 
Strengths-Based 
Peer Supports 
Respect 
Responsibility 
Hope 
The IPS Employment Center
Rockville Institute, Westat