Steps into work: Integrating Employment and Mental Health Supports Project final report [executive summary]

The Integrating Employment and Mental Health Support (IEMHS) project piloted the IPS model by integrating an EmployAbility Employment Specialist into each of four HSE Multidisciplinary Mental Health Teams (MDTs), in order to deliver an IPS service in four sites across Ireland. The participating sites were in Castlebar, Galway, Cavan/Monaghan and Bantry. There were two distinct types of mental health teams involved in the IEMHS project: Rehabilitation and Recovery Teams (Castlebar, Galway and Cavan/Monaghan), and a generic Community Mental Health Team (CMHT, in Bantry). Rehabilitation and Recovery Teams provide specialized mental health care for people with severe and enduring mental health difficulties, whose needs cannot be adequately met by general adult services.