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Enhancing Supported Employment Services for Individuals with Psychiatric Disabilities to Address Workplace Prejudice and Discrimination

Award Number: 90DPEM0005
ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DISABILITY, INDEPENDENT LIVING, AND REHABILITATION RESEARCH
OPDIV: ACL
AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY
AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: OTHER
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 09/01/2021
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 08/31/2026

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Enhancing Supported Employment Services for Individuals with Psychiatric Disabilities to Address Workplace Prejudice and Discrimination - Stigma associated with mental illness has been consistently recognized as a major barrier to the recovery of persons with psychiatric disabilities with an enormous psychological and economic toll on their well-being, quality of life and life expectancy. Recent research provides evidence that workers with psychiatric disabilities are subjected to prejudicial and discriminatory behaviors stemming from a wide range of stigma triggers beyond mental illness, such as race, gender, weight, medical conditions, forensic background, etc. Yet, workplace prejudice and discrimination is not systematically addressed in the evidence-based Individual Placement and Support (IPS) model of supported employment for people with psychiatric disabilities (Drake et al., 2012; Swanson & Becker, 2018). Currently, we propose to develop an intervention entitled “Managing Workplace Prejudice and Discrimination (MWPD)” and to test its effectiveness in increasing the employment outcomes of people with psychiatric disabilities receiving supported employment services. The MWPD enhancement will be fully integrated in the IPS teams’ operations. We will evaluate the feasibility and acceptability of the MWPD intervention through a small pilot study. We will evaluate its effectiveness with 16 IPS teams operating in the state of North Carolina. We will implement a stepped wedge cluster randomized trial comparing the employment outcomes of individuals served by participating IPS teams before and after their operations were augmented with the MWPD intervention. Upon successful completion of the study, we will implement comprehensive dissemination and utilization activities targeting members of the international IPS Learning Community and providers of other vocational rehabilitation services to people with psychiatric disabilities.


Issue Date FY	Funding FY	Legal Entity Name	Legal Entity Address	Legal Entity City	Legal Entity State	Legal Entity Zip Code	Legal Entity COUNTY	Legal Entity COUNTRY	Assistance Listing	Award Code	Budget Year	Action Date	Action Type	Action Amount

Issue Date FY: 2025 ( Subtotal = $498,830 )
2025	2025	TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY	1 SILBER WAY	BOSTON	MA	02215	SUFFOLK	USA	ACL National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research	00	5	6/3/2025	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$498,830
2025	2024	TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY	1 SILBER WAY	BOSTON	MA	02215	SUFFOLK	USA	ACL National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research	00	5	6/3/2025	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$0
2025	2023	TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY	1 SILBER WAY	BOSTON	MA	02215	SUFFOLK	USA	ACL National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research	00	5	6/3/2025	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$0
2025	2022	TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY	1 SILBER WAY	BOSTON	MA	02215	SUFFOLK	USA	ACL National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research	00	5	6/3/2025	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$0
2025	2021	TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY	1 SILBER WAY	BOSTON	MA	02215	SUFFOLK	USA	ACL National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research	00	5	6/3/2025	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$0
														Subtotal = $498,830

Issue Date FY: 2024 ( Subtotal = $499,997 )
2024	2024	TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY	1 SILBER WAY	BOSTON	MA	02215	SUFFOLK	USA	ACL National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research	00	4	7/11/2024	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$499,997
2024	2023	TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY	1 SILBER WAY	BOSTON	MA	02215	SUFFOLK	USA	ACL National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research	00	4	7/11/2024	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$0
2024	2022	TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY	1 SILBER WAY	BOSTON	MA	02215	SUFFOLK	USA	ACL National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research	00	4	7/11/2024	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$0
2024	2021	TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY	1 SILBER WAY	BOSTON	MA	02215	SUFFOLK	USA	ACL National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research	00	4	7/11/2024	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$0
														Subtotal = $499,997

Issue Date FY: 2023 ( Subtotal = $499,523 )
2023	2023	TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY	1 SILBER WAY	BOSTON	MA	02215	SUFFOLK	USA	ACL National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research	00	3	8/14/2023	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$499,523
2023	2022	TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY	1 SILBER WAY	BOSTON	MA	02215	SUFFOLK	USA	ACL National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research	00	3	8/14/2023	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$0
2023	2021	TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY	1 SILBER WAY	BOSTON	MA	02215	SUFFOLK	USA	ACL National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research	00	3	8/14/2023	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$0
														Subtotal = $499,523

Issue Date FY: 2022 ( Subtotal = $499,435 )
2022	2022	TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY	1 SILBER WAY	BOSTON	MA	02215	SUFFOLK	USA	ACL National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research	00	2	8/8/2022	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$499,435
2022	2021	TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY	1 SILBER WAY	BOSTON	MA	02215	SUFFOLK	USA	ACL National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research	00	2	8/8/2022	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$0
														Subtotal = $499,435

Issue Date FY: 2021 ( Subtotal = $498,904 )
2021	2021	Trustees Of Boston University	1 Silber Way	Boston	MA	02215	SUFFOLK	USA	ACL National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research	01	1	9/3/2021	OTHER REVISION	$0
2021	2021	Trustees Of Boston University	1 Silber Way	Boston	MA	02215	SUFFOLK	USA	ACL National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research	00	1	8/23/2021	NEW	$498,904
														Subtotal = $498,904

Grand Total All Awards = $2,496,689

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Enhancing Supported Employment Services for Individuals with Psychiatric Disabilities to Address Workplace Prejudice and Discrimination

Award Number: 90DPEM0005

ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DISABILITY, INDEPENDENT LIVING, AND REHABILITATION RESEARCH

OPDIV: ACL

AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY

AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: OTHER

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 09/01/2021

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 08/31/2026

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