Understanding Employment Supports for Individuals with Serious Mental Illness

1. Understanding Employment Supports for Individuals with Serious Mental Illness PANELISTS: Sean Brinda DBHIDS Skyler Deitrick Workabilities Clubhouse Bill McHenry New Visions Fairweather Lodge Roody McNair Horizon House Valerie Walter PEACE FACILITATOR: Randy Loss OMHSAS The 19th Employment Supports Symposium: "NOW is the Time to Make Employment Happen“ May 23, 2019

2. Objectives • Learn of the various programs using evidenced based practice employment services • Understand what services are offered in EBP programs • Know of employment resources in your area to support individuals with serious mental illness

3. Sean Brinda-Peer Services Manager, DBHIDS • Mr. Brinda is responsible for management, oversight, development and implementation of a peer support service framework and promoting successful peer integration that is aligned with the building blocks of a recovery and resilience-oriented system of care that strengthens opportunities for the people that we serve. Responsible to create private and public partnerships while enhancing the supports of peers across the systems. • https://dbhids.org/mental-health-services/

4. Skyler Deitrick- Employment Lead, Workabilities Clubhouse • Workabilities follows the Fountain House Clubhouse model of the Work Ordered Day for its members. It has an active membership of close to 100 and an average daily census in the mid-20s. The Clubhouse is run through the Kitchen and Clerical Units. These units provide the backbone of the Clubhouse including billing, outreach, newsletters, food prep and maintenance. • https://csgonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Workabilities-Clubhouse-06-22-2015.pdf

5. Bill McHenry- Fairweather Lodge Program Coordinator, New Visions Fairweather Lodge • Mr. McHenry Provides support, counseling, mentoring, and positive role modeling to individuals through their mental health recovery process. Provides business management and skills development through the Lodge business, Perry Apex Services Unlimited (PASU) which is a transportation service provider. • https://www.new-visions.org/services/

6. Roody McNair-Supported Education Specialist, Education Plus at Horizon House • The Horizon House Education Plus program for adults with mental health challenges and significant learning disabilities provides the necessary supports for students to earn a post-secondary education certificate or degree. We support their efforts to attend school, to graduate and obtain employment. The program is mobile, serving all schools in the Philadelphia region. Meetings with students occur where it is most convenient, typically on their college campus. • https://www.hhinc.org/behavioral-health-services/employment-and-education-services/

7. Valerie Walter- Supported Employment and Education Specialist, Psychosis Education, Assessment, Care, and Empowerment (PEACE) First Episode Psychosis (FEP) program at Horizon House • The PEACE FEP program mission is to keep people with early signs of psychosis on their normal life paths by: Building community awareness Offering easily accessible, effective treatment Support with a focus of resiliency and recovery • Valerie is the PEACE employment specialist whose primary focus is to help individuals gain and maintain employment. • https://www.facebook.com/phillypeace

8. Questions

9. Contact Randy Loss, M.A., C.R.C. Human Services Program Specialist PA OMHSAS rloss@pa.gov (717) 214-8198