Program: Supportive Employment/Individual Placement & Support
EPM/CPSS Role Responsibilities:
• Use assertive engagement strategies to continuously engage beneficiaries in IPS services.
• Promote self-determination, recovery, self-advocacy, and self-direction.
• Assist in identifying strengths, wellness goals, setting objectives, and identifying barriers.
• Explore career and educational aspirations.
• Attend treatment team meetings to promote the use of self-directed advocacy tools.
• Assist in the vocational assessment and employment goal planning and participates in the development of the Career Profile.
• Assist in learning how to ask for appropriate services in community.
• Model self-advocacy skills for addressing disclosure issues or requesting job accommodations.
• Teach wellness management strategies and help develop self-management plan and tools to use in the workplace and in their personal lives.
• Use manualized strategies such as Illness Management and Recovery (IMR), Wellness Management and Recovery (WMR), Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP), Vocational IMR, and others.
• Connect to support groups in the community to learn from other peers, promote hope, problem-solve through work situations, and decrease social isolation.
• Provide education to increase the IPS team’s understanding of self-advocacy and peer support roles, and promote a culture in which beneficiary’s point of view and preferences are recognized, understood, respected, and integrated into service delivery.
• Share their personal story to model how to choose, obtain, and keep employment.
• Support making informed decisions about employment and building community connections.
• Assist with building social skills in the community that enhance job acquisition and tenure.
• Attend community recovery support groups meetings with the beneficiary, if appropriate.
• Assist with financial wellness using tools for money management and asset development.
• Provide psychiatric rehabilitation interventions that support employment and educational goal