Enabling careers, autonomy, and prosperity: Using community organizing and building approaches to improve the educational outcomes of people with mental illness

Work

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 105-112

  Krupa, Terry ^a   Carter, Glenda ^b  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Frontenac Community Mental Health Services   (Canada)

Author keywords

community development; education; Employment; mental illness; vocational rehabilitation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PEER GROUP; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; VOCATIONAL EDUCATION; VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION;

EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; PEER GROUP; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; REHABILITATION, VOCATIONAL; VOCATIONAL EDUCATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84868647204     PISSN: 10519815     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/WOR-2012-1452     Document Type: Article

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