Individual Placement and Support (IPS)
Employer Connections That Work for You
Individual Placement and Supports (IPS) is a person-centered, zero exclusion, integrated services approach that leads to a competitive integrated employment. IPS Services are committed to competitive employment as an attainable goal for people with behavioral health conditions seeking employment. IPS Employment Specialists are closely integrated with mental health treatment teams, working out of their offices, to ensure that participant’s employment and mental health needs are addressed through coordination between staff and agencies.
IPS empowers people living with mental illnesses, substance use disorders, and other disabilities, to work at jobs they choose and enjoy.
IPS Employment Specialists focus on rapid job search through systematic job development by visiting employers to learn about their business and hiring needs and to help job seekers to obtain jobs directly, without preemployment assessments or training. Once a participant obtains employment, job supports continue in an individualized manner for as long as the working participant wants and needs support.
IPS operates under a zero-exclusion policy and participants are not excluded from services based on readiness, diagnoses, symptoms, substance abuse history, psychiatric hospitalizations, homelessness, level of disability, or legal system involvement.
Employer Relationships: Your IPS Specialist builds relationships with employers through many in-person visits to learn about their business needs.
Rapid Job Search: You’ll start looking for jobs within 30 days. There are not pre-vocational hoops to jump through.
Integrated Treatment Team: Your IPS Specialist works with your mental health specialist(s) to support your goals for treatment and employment.
Benefits Planning: You can meet with a trained benefits planner to learn how work income will affect your benefits or not.
Zero Exclusion: IPS is open to anyone who wants to work, regardless of job history, substance use, legal problems, or any other issues.
Time-Unlimited Job Supports: You’ll get individual job support however it works best for you, and for as long as you want or need it.
Worker Preferences: Your individual preferences are honored regarding job type, duties, skills, hours/shift, accommodations, and personal disclosure.
