Centre for Mental Health

Briefing 44: Implementing what works

The impact of the Individual Placement and Support regional trainer

Centre for Mental Health worked alongside Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and Southdown Supported Employment, a not-for-profit sector provider of employment services that works in partnership with the mental health trust, to test whether locating a 'regional trainer' across both the Trust and Southdown could speed up the development and efficacy of Individual Placement and Support (IPS) within their services. The role was based on the State Trainer model that was developed and is widely used in the United States for this purpose.  

02 February 2012
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The Mental Health Strategy, system reforms and spending pressures: what do we know so far?

In the summer of 2011, Centre for Mental Health, the Mental Health Foundation, Mind and Rethink Mental Illness commissioned an independent researcher, Dr Susan O'Connor to evaluate the impact of the Government's mental health strategy, No Health Without Mental Health. This paper examines how delivery of the strategy is being influenced by pressures on public spending and the emerging reforms in health local government and other public services.  

18 January 2012
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