- Focus on competitive employment: Agencies providing IPS services are committed to competitive employment as an attainable goal for people with behavioral health conditions seeking employment.
- Zero exclusion criteria based on client choice: People are not excluded based on readiness, diagnoses, symptoms, substance use history, psychiatric hospitalizations, homelessness, level of disability, or legal system involvement.
- Integration of rehabilitation and mental health services: IPS programs are closely integrated with mental health treatment teams.
- Attention to worker preferences: Services are based on each person’s preferences and choices.
- Personalized benefits counseling: Employment specialists help people obtain personalized, understandable, and accurate information about their social security, Medicaid, and other government entitlements.
- Rapid job search: IPS programs use a rapid job search approach to help job seekers obtain jobs directly, rather than providing lengthy preemployment assessment, training, and counseling.
- Systematic job development: Employment specialists systematically visit employers to learn about their business needs and hiring preferences.
- Time-unlimited and individualized support: Job supports are individualized and continue for as long as each worker wants and needs the support.
Fidelity and Evaluation
The Center of Excellence for Behavioral Health provides fidelity reviews of our practices of focus. A fidelity review is a quality-improvement tool to provide agencies an external evaluation of their practice for the purpose of service enhancement. If you are an IPS team in need of a fidelity review, please see more about our approach to fidelity reviews or contact us to arrange a review with our senior consultants.
Resources
1 / More about IPS
2 / IPS in Iowa
3 / National IPS Resources
4 / Iowa IPS Start-Up Questionnaire
Address
University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics
Center for Disabilities and Development
100 Hawkins Drive
Iowa City, IA 52242