Employment assistance for people with mental illness
The Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR) was allocated $5 million over four years for research related to employment and mental illness as part of the Council of Australian Governments’ (COAG) National Action Plan on Mental Health 2006-2011.
The research will inform policy and program decisions that will help people with mental illness to find and retain employment.
Literature review—employment assistance for people with mental illness
DEEWR has released a literature review of the latest research on employment assistance for people with mental illness. The literature review, identifies and describes models of employment assistance for people with mental illness and discusses good practice in relation to assisting people with mental illness into employment.
An electronic copy of the literature review is now available: