Read about the latest news in evidence-based employment support.
Spirit of collaboration to support people’s wellbeing in Counties Manukau
Employment support is seen as one of the greatest unmet needs within mental health and addiction services.
Enabling access to IPS employment support in Aotearoa New Zealand in 2022 and beyond
While access to IPS employment support in New Zealand is increasing, nearly half of current health regions still have no access to IPS. It is concerning that many people are missing out on evidence-based mental health and addiction employment support services .
IPS employment support scale-up is happening but access remains the issue
Integrated employment support in mental health and addiction services is growing but equity of access is the transformational shift that is needed.
New report highlights value of employment support
The National Health Service (NHS) in England has committed to a massive scale-up of employment support programmes for people accessing mental health services.
Strong interest in IPS employment support for drug and alcohol teams in Aotearoa
Paul Anders and Dr Rob Robertson from the individual placement and support (IPS) employment support research trial in England’s alcohol and drug services shared their experiences at our Work Counts webinar.
Honouring employment aspirations
As we transform Aotearoa’s mental health and addiction system, we need to honour people’s employment aspirations. Integrating employment support in mental health and addiction services is key.
Calls for action to increase access to integrated employment support
Platform | Atamira and the Mental Health Foundation have released their briefings to the incoming Parliament and called for action to increase access to integrated employment support in New Zealand.
