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Supported Employment Summary

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Dr. David Biegel discusses his research on supported employment for individuals with co-occurring substance use disorder along with mental health illness and mental health illness. According to Dr. Biegel’s discussion, supported employment is nationwide evidence based practice assist individual to obtain and maintain employment, and has been proven to be effective.

Strength of the supported employment is that any person who has a mental health disorder and wants to work, qualifies for the program. The goal is also to have the person employee within ninety days. In addition, the person is provided with an employment specialist whose job is to find out what type of job the person is interested in and they tried to find the job that matches
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