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This new book is must reading for any supported employment professional. It belongs in every community rehabilitation program!

“Implementing the recommendations contained in Supported Employment in Business
will further the employment potential for hundreds of thousands of people.”
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$34.95 US		 Supported Employment in Business

Expanding the Capacity of Workers with Disabilities
Paul Wehman, Ph.D.

This definitive reference book covers all the cutting edge issues of supported employment in 322 pages.
31 nationally known contributors address topics ranging from funding to job development to intervention techniques over 322 pages. The book’s practical yet comprehensive approach provides a resource for practitioners and academics alike.

"The use of trained employment specialists, informed co-workers, mentors, and technological supports, together with enlightened legislation such as the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), has greatly enhanced the employment possibilities for people with significant disabilities. Unfortunately, hundreds of thousands of people with disabilities still remain left behind in segregated centers. Many more are on waiting lists for employment despite the fact that people with significant cognitive, physical, and behavioral challenges have demonstrated their competence in the workplace." –Paul Wehman

Contents

1. SE: New Directions for the New Millennium
2. Greater Success through New Partnerships: The Business Connection
3. Situational Assessment: Toward Career Planning
4. Creating Business Alliances for Supported Employment
5. A Business Approach to Finding and Restructuring Supported Employment
6. Facilitating Job Site Training and Supports: The Evolving Role of the Job Coach
7. Supported Employment and Natural Supports
8. Corporate Supports and Mentoring in the Workplace
9. SE for People with Psychiatric Disabilities
10. SE for Individuals with Physical Disabilities
11. Traumatic Brain Injury and Return to Work
12. Organizational Change from Sheltered to Integrated Employment
13. Systemic Change for Supported Employment: Old Lessons and New Possibilities
14. Social Security Work Incentives: Issues in Implementation
15. Supporting the Transition from School to Work and Adult Life
16. Self-Employment as the Logical Descendant of Supported Employment
17. Funding Supported Employment
18. The Economics of Running Supported Employment Programs
19. Federal Employment Programs for Persons with Disabilities

Paul Wehman and John Bricout
James Howard Green and Valerie Brooke
Pam Targett
John Bricout and Paul Wehman
John A. Nietupski and Susan Hamre-Nietupski
Teresa Grossi, Becky Banks, and Debra Pinnyei
Wendy Parent, Paul Wehman, and John Bricout
Pamela Targett, Michael West, and Newton Anglin
Laurie Ford
Katherine Inge
Paul Wehman, John Bricout, Pam Targett, and Jeff Johns
Pat Rogan, Mary Held, and Susan Rinne
David Mank and Grant Revell
Valerie Brooke and Susan O’Mara
Carolyn Hughes and Erik Carter
Cary Griffin and Dave Hammis
Jeanne Novak, David Mank, Grant Revell, and Dan O’Brien
Robert Cimera
John Kregel

“The employment of people with disabilities is reaching a critical juncture.
This book, written by leading experts in supported employment,
will help take us all into a new era where full employment is not just a dream, but a reality.”
–Tammara Geary, Executive Director
Association for Persons in Supported Employment

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BOOK REVIEW

RehabPro Journal of the National Association of Rehabilitation Professionals in the Private Sector

The goals for Supported Employment in Business: Expanding the Capacity of Workers with Disabilities is to assist those involved in supported employment (i.e., service providers, advocates, consumers, and families) by revitalizing the body of knowledge about supported employment and to crystallize in one book the essence of where supported employment services have been and are to go if full participation of workers with disabilities is to be achieved. The overall goal of supported employment is to minimize the impact of disability and this text reviews the methods to achieve that goal, from both empirical and prescriptive perspectives.

The book is composed of three major parts regarding supported employment. The first part, Clinical Foundations (how supported employment works) has seven chapters. Chapter topics include: review of current status and future directions; establishing business connections; career planning and situational assessment; creating business alliances; job carving; role of the job coach; and, natural supports. Part two, Applications of Supported Employment (making it work), examines supported employment for specific disability groups. Severe disabilities, psychiatric disabilities, physical disabilities, and traumatic brain injury are addressed. The final part, Critical Issues in Supported Employment Implementation, contains eight chapters. Subjects include: conversion fi7om sheltered work to integrated employment; application of a systems change model to supported employment; Social Security and Supplemental Security work incentives; transitions from school to work and adult life; self-employment goals for supported employment; funding and economic issues; and, federal employment programs.

There are several highlights to the book. Summary tables and figures, as well as case studies are extensively used and provide excellent information. Similar chapter structure and statement of chapter goals in introductions are utilized. Concise, yet easy to read, language and style allow for use by more than professionals in the field. Potential audience includes special educators, rehabilitationists, advocates, administrators, employers, psychologists, allied medical personnel, adult service providers, guidance counselors, vocational educators, persons with disabilities and their families. It is an excellent textbook for masters degree courses in rehabilitation counseling.

Paul Wehman, the editor/author is the most respected individual in the area of supported employment. He is professor in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the Medical College of Virginia, as well as director of the Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Workplace Supports at Virginia Commonwealth University. His contributions to the area have been essential to the implementation and refinement of supported employment.

Supported employment for both individuals and society is critical. "The more that the concepts of supports can permeate not only the human service system, but communities and society as a whole, the more infused into the mainstream of daily life will individuals with disabilities become" (p. ix). Implementing the recommendations contained in Supported Employment in Business: Expanding the Capacity of Workers with Disabilities will further the employment potential for hundreds of thousands of people.

Joseph E. Havranek, Ed.D., CRC, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio