Community Matters: Supported Employment and Place & Train Model

This report outlines Community Matters' approach to supported employment, emphasizing the 'place and train' model, which prioritizes placing individuals with intellectual disabilities in competitive employment settings before providing training. It highlights the shift from the medical model to empowering individuals for independent living. The core values and practices of Community Matters are centered around ensuring that all parties benefit from competitive employment, providing individuals with meaningful jobs, and fostering holistic development. Key values include agency, autonomy, capacity building, and relationship focus, which translates into creating a culture of mutual respect and inclusion. The report also emphasizes the importance of community connections and support systems. The document references academic sources to support its approach to supported employment. Desklib provides access to similar reports and solved assignments for students.

Community Matters- Supported
employment
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One component: Place and Train
Approach
Evolution of the medical model to
empower the people with intellectual
disabilities to live an independent life

Core values and practises
•Our core value is that all the parties should
benefit from the atmosphere of competitive
employment.
•This kind of employment would provide the
individual with a real, respectful and
meaningful job (Corrigan and McCracken
2005)

Expected outcome
The expected outcome of
Community Matters would be paying
attention to the community or in
other words fostering the holistic
development of the candidate and
provide a morale boost to their
confidence. There needs to be an
emphasis on people to connect to
their formal and informal networks in
the community for growth and
development.

•Agency and autonomy to decide their employment support,
services and the career satisfaction results.
•Another core value intrinsic to the organization is that of focusing
on the capacity and the capabilities.
•Another core value would be paying attention to relationships.
•This core value would be translated through creating a culture of
mutual respect and mutual acceptance and therefore strive
towards inclusion.
•Another core value that represents the Community Matters is the
power of supports.
Why we should come to you as our supported employment
service provider?

References
Corrigan, P.W. and McCracken, S.G., 2005. Place first, then train: an alternative
to the medical model of psychiatric rehabilitation. Social Work, 50(1), pp.31-39.
Lemaire, G.S. and Mallik, K., 2008. Barriers to supported employment for
persons with developmental disabilities. Archives of Psychiatric Nursing, 22(3),
pp.147-155.
Lysaght, R., Ouellette-Kuntz, H. and Lin, C.J., 2012. Untapped potential:
Perspectives on the employment of people with intellectual
disability. Work, 41(4), pp.409-422.
Worksupport.com. (2018). [online] Available at:
http://www.worksupport.com/documents/proed_competitiveemployment.pdf
[Accessed 30 May 2018].

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