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Creating a Culture that of Employment and Economic
Self-SufficiencyNYAPRS
Len Statham, Employment and Economic Self Sufficiency Specialist
[email protected](585) 490-3979
New York Association of Psychiatric Rehabilitation Services (NYAPRS)
A statewide coalition of people who use and/or provide community mental health recovery services and supports dedicated to improving services and social conditions for people with psychiatric disabilities by promoting their recovery, rehabilitation and rights
Members Services and Technical Assistance Grassroots Advocacy E News Regional Forums
Annual Conference Exec Seminar PROS Academy
Service Transformation Community and Economic Development Peer Services Cultural Competence website
www.nyaprs.org
Participants will learn how culture drives outcomes and outcomes drive culture
Participants will recognize the link between poverty and mental illness
Participants will come away with ten concrete steps they can implement immediately that will help them foster a culture of employment
Participants will be introduced to curriculum that will help move people along the continuum of Employment and Economic Self-Sufficiency.
Objectives
Welcome & Expectations Why Employment & Economic Self-
Sufficiency? Exercise: What do we want? “We Can Work DVD” The Tools Making Employment Work: Building a
culture that supports work Evaluations
AGENDA
Mental Illness and Poverty 10 Facts You Should Know!
1) The lower the socioeconomic status of an individual is, the higher is his or her risk of mental illness (Hudson, 2005).
2) There is a strongly negative relationship between socioeconomic status and mental illness (Hudson, 2005).
3). The conditions of poverty can cause certain mental health disorders and that alleviating poverty can have positive effects on children's mental health (Costello et al, 2003).
4) The stresses associated with low socioeconomic status lead to higher mental illness (Hudson, 2005).
5) Higher unemployment, poverty, and lack of housing affordability in poorer communities account for more than half of community differences in psychiatric hospitalization rates (Hudson, 2005).
6) Major depression occurs more frequently among people of lower socioeconomic status (Gilman et al, 2002).
7) Participants from lower socioeconomic backgrounds had nearly a twofold increase in risk for major depression compared to those from the highest socioeconomic status (Gilman 2002).
8) Poverty, acting through economic stressors such as unemployment and lack of affordable housing, is more likely to precede mental illness than the reverse (Hudson, 2005).
9) Adults with lower socioeconomic status are more likely to have serious mental illness than those with higher socioeconomic status (SAMHSA, 2002). 10) One study found that the low-income uninsured population had a higher prevalence of 1 or more psychiatric disorders (51% vs. 28%): mood disorders (33% vs. 16%), anxiety disorders (36% vs. 11%), probable alcohol abuse (17% vs. 7%), and eating disorders (10% vs. 7%) (Mauksch, 2001).
Being able to provide for ourselves in order to meet our
essential needs and wants. When we are self-sufficient, we
are financially independent. When we have independence we can pursue the life we want for
ourselves.
Economic Self-Sufficiency
What is economic self-sufficiency?
1. Having control over one’s financial life2. Having independence from public
programs3. Having sufficient earned income4. Having assets5. Being able to contribute to one’s
communities
When poverty and dependency become barriers to psychiatric rehabilitation and recovery
Living with chronic worry or anxiety to meet one’s basic needs
Residing in neighborhoods where violence and deteriorating community ties leave individuals in isolation
Being so afraid of not making it without benefits that one prefers to stay in the benefits trap
Lacking transportation to take a job or a better paying job
Lacking the resources or supports to pursue a new career or advance professionally
The impact of poverty and dependency on all areas of wellness
Financial
Emotional
Physical
SpiritualEnvironmental
Intellectual
Social
Occupational
The benefits of work in mental health recovery
Employment
Increase self
esteem
Decrease psychiatric symptoms
Decrease potential
for relapseIncrease income
Increase social status
Increase social
contacts
Positive opinions
about the future
Name 5 things you would like to have in your life in the next year? 3 years?
How will you acquire these things?
Can you do it on a budget of $785 a month?
What Do You Want? - Exercise
• The role of life dreams and aspirations in the pursuit of employment and economic change– What moves people to do what they do?– Why people would consider work or becoming more
self-sufficient?• Key questions:
– What are your life dreams and aspirations?– How would you like your life to be like in 1 year? in
2 years? In 5 years?– What would you like to have? What would you like
to be doing? Where would you like to live?
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Engaging in life dreams and aspirations
A Provider’s Guide to Promoting Economic Self-sufficiency:
A recovery-oriented approach
A Workbook for People in Recovery Seeking Economic Self-sufficiency
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Lesson 1: Why Is Economic Self-sufficiency Important to
Recovery?
Lesson 2: What Can Providers Do to Support Economic Self-
Sufficiency?
A recovery-oriented approach to financial wellness
What providers can do to support economic self-sufficiency: An overview Engaging individuals through conversations about life dreams Assessing readiness to pursue economic self-sufficiency Developing readiness to pursue economic self-sufficiency Creating a plan towards self-sufficiency Developing skills and capital to achieve self-sufficiency Linking and referring individuals to economic self-sufficiency services
Lesson 3: Strategies and Tools to Engage, Assess and Develop
Readiness towards Economic Self-Sufficiency
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Provider Guide: Contents
Lesson 4: Strategies and Tools to Create a Plan towards Self-sufficiency
Lesson 5: Strategies and Tools to Develop Skills and Capital to Achieve Self-Sufficiency◦ Module 1: Budgeting ◦ Module 2: Accessing work incentives to increase earned income◦ Module 3: Filing taxes◦ Module 4: Saving ◦ Module 5: Clearing and building credit ◦ Module 6: Dealing with predatory lending ◦ Module 7: Getting help with addictions and financial stressors◦ Module 8: Increasing social capital
Lesson 6: Strategies and Tools to Increase Access to Economic Self-sufficiency Services
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Provider Guide: Contents
Zero Exclusion Application process for job
development or volunteer positions Performance Reviews Time off request Job Board Achievement Board Weekly / Monthly Forums Workshops
Culture Change
Integrated team – Everyone is on the employment team.
Everyone supports economic self-sufficiency.
Support recovery and work oriented culture Look for job leads Training Jobs are celebrated milestones Employment discussed at every staff
meeting.
Culture Change
“First Job Ever”
“No one ever talked to me about work.”
“I experienced that work was helpful in managing my symptoms.”
“Work gave me the confidence that I can do anything that I put my mind to.”
“Has help me to be a better person knowing that I am needed somewhere.”
Employment time vs. Human service time. Visits to employers using the 3 Cups of Tea
Method. Sits on the following Business/Association
Councils: North Clinton Business Association, Wal-Mart/City Hall Committee, Rotary Club, and Rochester Area Employment Network.
Using numerous job development strategies. Our circle is their circle.
The Role of Job Developer – There is no typical day!
• Help me determine what my level of readiness to pursue employment is
• Enhance my willingness to engage in activities/actions to pursue employment
• Find best ways to engage me in the process• Get in touch with my hopes, preferences,
values • Explore past and current experiences• Consider future possibilities• Create action steps that develop readiness
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Assess Readiness To…
NOT about labeling me as “ready” or “not ready” to work
NOT about screening me out or excluding me from vocational services
NOT about my capacity to work or improve my economic self-sufficiency
NOT about determining the achievability or realism of my goals
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What Readiness Assessment is NOT
Expectations Reflections Outcome-oriented Accountability
Change begins when they first enter your care!
THANK YOU!
NYAPRSwww.nyaprs.org
Len Statham, Economic and Employment Self Sufficiency
[email protected](585) 490-3979