Supported Employment News

The benefits of work to people’s health and well being have been explored extensively in occupational therapy literature [1–3]. Unfortunately, people with psychiatric and intellectual disability face inimitable barriers to employment, including stigma, fluctuating...

Supported employment (SE) is an effective service approach to promote the inclusion of persons with disability in work. SE has been defined as “competitive employmenta in an integrated setting with on-going support services for individuals with the most severe...

Work as an occupation of daily living holds benefits for any person participating in it1,2,3,4. It has been established though, that people with psychiatric and intellectual disabilities experience extensive barriers to participation in work as employment...

The unemployment level of the general South African population has been unacceptably high for the longest time. Currently, more than a quarter of South Africans who want to work, are unemployed. The unemployment rate amongst people with disabilities is even higher, as...

Across the world, youth have been identified as a vulnerable group who experiences low levels of employment. In 2014, 75 million out of the 200 million unemployed people worldwide were youth (International Labour Organisation [ILO] 2014). Youth development has also...

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