IPS Steering Group (for employment support)
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February 16, 2024
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Introduction
Individual Placement and Support (IPS) is an evidence-based practice supporting people with lived experience of mental health and addiction to find and sustain paid employment (including education opportunities).
Obectives of an IPS steering group
- Ensure mental health services and employment providers work in partnership and share responsibility of the overall performance of the IPS employment support programme.
- Increase access of employment support for people with mental health and addictions and increase outcomes and equity for Māori and Pasifika populations.
- Periodically review employment support services to assess adherence to IPS principles and practices. This is done using the relevant fidelity scale (Australia NZ IPS-25 or IPS-Y).
- Identify barriers and enablers of ‘good’ to ‘exemplary’ fidelity.
- Implement quality assurance strategies following fidelity self-assessments and fidelity reviews by reviewing self-assessment improvement plans and creating IPS development plans.
- Review programme data and successes and share with clinical and employment support services leadership and staff.
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