Thursday, April 24, 2025
4/24/2025
Employment Works! - Employment Works! will implement a model systems change initiative that removes perceived barriers, expands access, and increases positive outcomes of Supported Employment for persons with SPMI by adding wrap-around mentoring and support components to SE EBP model. It will also create a strategy of community collaboration, integrating employment into the county's wellness and recovery transformation as an expected outcome and changing the mental health and vocational services referral processes to streamline access to SE services. Adding the Recovery Partnership for Employment component of the program will create new opportunities, motivate and support consumers to choose employment as part of recovery, and provide peer delivered Work and Wellness services to maintain and enhance employment. Peer Navigators will provide individual vocational mentoring to support vocational wellness and facilitation of support around issues pre and post job search. Grantee will place 300 consumers in competitive employment, make infrastructure and policy changes to integrate employment into the wellness and recovery transformation, generate significant data about the impact of peer delivered wellness and recovery supports on employment and employment, and measure the financial impact of employment on the wellness and recovery of persons with SPMI.
HHS’ Tracking Accountability in Government Grants System (TAGGS) website provides access to detailed descriptions of grants, loans, aggregated direct payments and other types of financial assistance awarded by the HHS Operating Divisions (OPDIVs) and the Office of the Secretary Staff Divisions (STAFFDIVs).