Disability and Employment
"Recovery with Results:
Employment Policy and People with Mental Illness"
July 21, 2005
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Persons with mental illness present a unique set of challenges for the workforce development system. This web-assisted audioconference focused on key policy issues that affect employment outcomes for people with mental illness who face economic and employment barriers. These barriers can be personal, systemic or societal.
The presenters, noted professionals in the area of policy, employment and mental health, discussed the following:
- Current federal and state policy initiatives
- The state of the science and evidence about employment policies that positively affect outcomes for people with mental illness
- Examples of state system change projects
- State initiatives regarding funding, performance measurement and quality assurance/outcomes management.
SPEAKERS:
Joe Marrone
Senior Program Manager, Public Policy
Portland, OR
Virginia Fraser
Associate Director
Thresholds, Inc.
Chicago, IL
Gary Shaheen
Director of Employment Program Development
Delmar, NY
Contact Registration@ncsl.org or call 303-856-1430 for registration information, or Diana.Hinton@ncsl.org or 202-624-7779 regarding program content. If you would like more information about disability and employment, visit our website at www.ncsl.org/programs/employ/disab-work.htm.
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