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Editorial

Editorial The last five years have seen dramatically increased interest among users, professionals and the government in enabling people with mental health problems to gain employment. Many new projects have been started with a range of different approaches, including supported employment, transitional employment, social firms and co-operatives. In this issue we hear of another model — the ‘consumer-run business’ — describing the work of INCube in New York, told from the perspective of a German social firms expert. The reasons for all this activity are not hard to find and are set out clearly in the Sainsbury Centre/OUTSET’s admirable book Working It Out (Pozner et al., 1996). Firstly, users themselves want to work, because employment, as we can see from this and previous issues of A life in the day improves the quality of people’s lives in more ways than relieving their poverty. Secondly, the high levels of unemployment among people with a history of serious mental ill health (around 80–85% according to the most recent surveys) are a scandalous waste of lives and resources. This compares with studies in the UK and Germany which suggest that 30–40% of people in this group are capable of holding down a http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png A Life in the Day Pier Professional

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Pier Professional
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Copyright © 1998 by Pier Professional Limited
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1366-6282
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Abstract

The last five years have seen dramatically increased interest among users, professionals and the government in enabling people with mental health problems to gain employment. Many new projects have been started with a range of different approaches, including supported employment, transitional employment, social firms and co-operatives. In this issue we hear of another model — the ‘consumer-run business’ — describing the work of INCube in New York, told from the perspective of a German social firms expert. The reasons for all this activity are not hard to find and are set out clearly in the Sainsbury Centre/OUTSET’s admirable book Working It Out (Pozner et al., 1996). Firstly, users themselves want to work, because employment, as we can see from this and previous issues of A life in the day improves the quality of people’s lives in more ways than relieving their poverty. Secondly, the high levels of unemployment among people with a history of serious mental ill health (around 80–85% according to the most recent surveys) are a scandalous waste of lives and resources. This compares with studies in the UK and Germany which suggest that 30–40% of people in this group are capable of holding down a

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A Life in the DayPier Professional

Published: Aug 1, 1998

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