Supported education is the process of helping consumers of mental health services participate in an education program so they may receive the education and training they need to achieve their learning and recovery goals and become gainfully employed in the job or career of their choice. The Café TAC will provide technical assistance and resources on effective approaches to supported education programs such as coaching and accommodations and establish a national database of supported education programs including vocational rehabilitation.
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CAFE TAC Resources
View the CAFE TAC’s online training on Supported Educatiuon: Getting a Degree Through Supported Education
View CAFE TAC’s white paper on supported education, Supported Education for Consumers of Mental Health Services.
View a Focus newsletter pertaining to the laws affecting Supported Education, Focus 7: Supported Education: Is It A Right?
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Outside Resources
Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation, Higher Education Toolkit – http://www.bu.edu/cpr/resources/supportstudents/ – The Higher Education Support Toolkit (HES) provides disability service staff and health care staff with a simple way to work with students who are experiencing limitations arising from their psychiatric disability. Sometimes it only takes a small change to make a dramatic difference in the ability of a student to be optimally engaged in college classes. By helping students to identify the ways in which they are being challenged, disability and support services staff can then direct students to campus resources and discuss strategies for the classroom that meet their particular needs. The HES Toolkit is free.
A Practical Guide for People with Disabilities Who Want to Go to College – http://tucollaborative.org/pdfs/education/College_Guide.pdf – This new publication provides a practical guide to help people with disabilities who want to return to college – to community colleges or career institutes, or for four-year degrees or graduate education. The publication provides an overview of the challenges and supports needed in four areas: finding the right school, locating supports at your school, managing your disability and your education, and using your new educational qualifications in the search for a better job. Among the issues reviewed: assessing your own interests and skills, funding your education, disclosing your disability, and locating supports and services to succeed at school. The guide can be used both by consumers to get a better sense of how to improve their educations and by rehabilitation and case management personnel to structure their discussions with motivated consumers. In addition, the guide provides references to a wealth of additional print publications and online resources that explore each topic in greater detail.
Supported Education with Dr. Karen Unger - http://supportededucation.com/services.html – Rehabilitation Through Education is a consulting firm founded in 1995 to develop and promote the concept of supported education. This website includes what supported education is, the Key Elements of Supported Education, Handbook On Supported Education: Providing Services For Student With Psychiatric Disabilities, and services available rehabilitation through education.
Supported Employment and Supported Education Summit Meeting - http://www.cimh.org/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=KuAB3icB-MY%3d&tabid=793 – Report from a summit with stakeholders convened by the California Department of Rehabilitation.
Systematic Review of Supported Education 1989-2009 – http://drrk.bu.edu/research-syntheses/psychiatric-disabilities/supported-education – Review of material related to supported education by the Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation.
The Virginia Commonwealth University Supported Education Model: Effective Strategies and Supports for College, Students with Learning Disabilities and Attention Deficit Disorders - http://www.rrtc.hawaii.edu/documents/products/phase2/pdf/019b(8)-H04.pdf – This paper addresses the nature of the problem, the implementation of the supported education model, and the innovative practices that were used in the Virginia Commonwealth University Supported Education Model.
Supported Education Strategies for People with Severe Mental Illness: A Review of Evidence Based Practice - http://www.psychosocial.com/IJPR_11/Supported_Ed_Strategies_Leonard.html – The article reviews extant literature related to the study of evidence based practice of the provision of supported education to the mentally ill and provides a chronological history of efforts from various institutions and mental health and educational facilities in North America.
Supported Education for Persons with Psychiatric Disabilities - http://www.cimh.org/Portals/0/Documents/Adult/EPB-IDDT/CiMH-IDDT-Supported-Education.pdf – This presentation of supported education is intended to a) situate supported education models in relationship to other mental health programs and to related interventions by educational institutions; b) outline what is known about the extent of implementation of supported education programs, and c) summarize the evidence base for supported education.
Education and Support Services for Students with Psychiatric Disabilities - http://www.bu.edu/cpr/reasaccom/educa-read-suppor.html – The authors describe the implementation of a 10-month project at a city college designed for students with psychological disabilities.
The Michigan Supported Education Program – http://psychservices.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/51/11/1355 – Includes an abstract, introduction, program description, and the effectiveness of the program. The Michigan Supported Education Program began as a three-year research demonstration project in the mid-1990s. It was designed to serve adults with psychiatric disabilities in the Detroit metropolitan area who had a range of psychiatric diagnoses. After its evaluation was completed in 1997, the program was incorporated into the array of services offered by the Detroit-Wayne County Community Mental Health Agency through the Southwest Detroit Counseling and Development Center. It now serves 150 consumers each year.
Career Advancement Resources (CAR): Supported Education as a Career Development Strategy – American Journal of Psychiatric Rehabilitation (For purchase) - http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a725292449 – Since its inception in 1997, under the statewide Supported Education and Employment (SEE) initiative, Career Advancement Resources (CAR) has provided services to 1077 individuals with psychiatric disabilities seeking to return to paid employment. This article describes the CAR program’s participants, including their demographics and their educational and vocational goals, and in so doing, provides an understanding of the “Choose-Get-Keep” model of Supported Education, which serves as the theoretical framework behind the SEE initiative.
Supported Education for People with Psychiatric Disabilities: A Practical Manual (For Purchase) – http://www.amazon.com/Supported-Education-People-Psychiatric-Disabilities/dp/0761823484 – This book provides practical guidance for the development and operation of supported education for people with psychiatric disabilities. It’s step-by-step program, planning inclusion of generic policies and procedures and descriptions of program management by coordinators who have psychiatric disabilities themselves, make the book particularly unique.
Supported Education for Individuals with Psychiatric Disabilities: Long-term Outcomes from an Experimental Study (Statistical Data Included) – http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-55138468.html – The article discusses the appropriateness of supported education as a social work intervention.
Establishing Individualized Goals in a Supported Education Intervention: Program Influences on Goal-Setting and Attainment - http://www.sagepub.com/prsw/overviews/pdfs/Collins_%20Article.pdf – This study investigated goal-setting and attainment in the Michigan Supported Education Research Project, an intervention that provides support for adults with psychiatric disabilities to engage in post secondary education.
Outcomes of Post-Secondary Supported Education Programs for People with Education Programs for People with Psychiatric Disabilities - http://www.cabhp.asu.edu/projects/research/pdf/outcomes%20of%20postsecondary%20supported%20education%20for%20people%20with%20psychiatric%20disabilities.pdf – The objectives of this study were to examine if people with mental illness could complete a course of study, to school enhances quality of life and self there are identifiable predictors of school if returning esteem, incompletion and if participating in supported education programs leads to career employment or employment that reflects education level.
Supported Education Strategies for People with Severe Mental Illness: A Review of Evidence Based Practice - http://www.psychosocial.com/IJPR_11/Supported_Ed_Strategies_Leonard.html – The article reviews extant literature related to the study of evidence based practice of the provision of supported education to the mentally ill and provides a chronological history of efforts from various institutions and mental health and educational facilities in North America.
BC’s Mental Health Journal Vision’s: Supported Education – http://www.burnaby.cmha.bc.ca/files/17.pdf – This PDF document addresses a variety of areas and questions regarding Supported Education.
A Program of Supported Education for Adult Israeli Students With Schizophrenia – http://www.redorbit.com/news/health/302307/a_program_of_supported_education_for_adult_israeli_students_with/index.html – This report describes a supported education program (SEP), a novel community-based program of rehabilitation for psychiatric patients, started in Israel in 1999.
Supported Education Abstract – http://rsh.sagepub.com/content/130/2/78.abstract - Findings from a survey of further education colleges and primary care trusts across the south east of England.
