Work Counts

This lovely team from Workwise attended 'Three cups of tea – developing employer relationships', facilitated by @PhilleenD. They put it into practice straight away, coming away with job leads for the people they support. Go to workcounts.co.nz to view our training options.

It was a pleasure to provide employment support training to Odyssey House and @msdgovtnz as part of 'E Ara e – Take Charge'. This new programme will be assisting young people with mental health and addiction challenges into the workforce.

Wonderful feedback from clients!

"By far the most impactful thing we did to change culture, influence treatment staff and drive referrals was to get clients who had made the IPS journey into work to tell their stories directly to staff." - Dr Rob Robinson

A warm welcome to Paul Anders and Dr Robert Robinson who are sharing their experiences from this research in today's Work Counts webinar: 'IPS employment support in alcohol and drug services'

These employment consultants from @EmberKT, @EmergeAotearoa and Workwise attended 'Three cups of tea – Developing employer relationships'. This workshop supports ECs with approaching, engaging and developing relationships with employers. Go to workcounts.co.nz/ for more.

Great to hear about the planned next steps ...

"Together with the strong international evidence base for effectiveness, these findings lend support to efforts to expand access to IPS in Aotearoa NZ."

These are highly effective employment services but access is low and uneven.

In the study, IPS programmes outperformed international benchmarks - that was based on a shorter follow up period, so very impressive.

"The existing evidence base for IPS is very strong."

Join us now as Moira Wilson, Insights @msdgovtnz presents our first research webinar for 2021: New insights on IPS employment support in Aotearoa.

This group of ‘Let’s talk about mental health and work’ participants in Auckland came away with lots of ideas that they will be able to put into practice in their organisations. We offer a range of employment support training options. Go to workcounts.co.nz for details.

@lockett_helen's targeted review of the literature found higher performing employment consultants tend to have these distinguishing behaviours.