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• Consumer choice
  • No one is excluded from participating.
• Integrated services
  • Employment specialists closely coordinate with other rehabilitation and clinical treatment practitioners, creating a comprehensive treatment program.
• Competitive jobs
  • Employment specialists help people find jobs in the open labor market that pay at least minimum wage and that anyone could have, regardless of their disability status.
• Benefits counseling
  • Employment specialists help people understand how benefits (such as Social Security or Medicaid) are affected by working. Most people are able to work and continue to receive some benefits.
• Timely support
  • Employment specialists help people look for jobs soon after they enter the program.
• Continuous supports
  • Once a job is found, employment specialists provide ongoing support, as needed.
• Consumer preferences
  • Choices about work are based on a person’s preferences, strengths, and experiences.
    
    

Using the KITs (Knowledge Informing Transformation)

Each KIT provides the EBP’s practice principles, beliefs, and values that guide the following:

• Clinical judgments;
• Specific treatment components;
• Service-delivery components; and
• Evaluation components.

The SE KIT outline the essential components of supported employe and provide suggestions collected from those who have successfully implemented it. These materials are based on professionals’ experience of how to develop new programs within mental health systems and agencies.
Two philosophical tenets steer the KITs: Consumers and families have a right to information about effective treatments and, in areas where EBPs exist, they have a right to access effective services. Mental health services should have the goal of helping people achieve their personal recovery goals; develop resilience; and live, work, learn, and participate in the community.
Research shows that giving written educational materials to practitioners alone does not change practice (Hyde et al., 2003). The KITs, therefore, include materials in various formats for a wide array of stakeholder groups. The KITs are primarily geared toward five critical groups of stakeholders:

• Public mental health authorities;
• Agency administrators and program leaders;
• EBP practitioners;
• Consumers; and
• Family members and other supporters.

The KITs present materials in different formats, including the following:

• Slides for a PowerPoint presentation;
• Brochures;
• Videos and CD-ROMs;
• Practice workbooks and exercises; and
• Program guidelines.

If you are administratively and clinically responsible for developing and managing the EBP program — you should read the entire KIT and be prepared to disseminate KIT materials to the appropriate people.

On page 5, Each KIT at a Glance shows the variety of educational tools within each KIT. The booklets were not intended to be read sequentially, but rather to be used by different stakeholders as resources throughout the implementation process.