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6th World Congress on
Mental Health, Psychiatry and Wellbeing
March 20-21, 2019 | New York, USA
Labour market inclusion,
long-term employment
and career development
using The Integrative
Model at Shekulo Tov
Group, Israel
Irad Eichler
Shekulo Tov Group, Israel
Statement of the problem:
Literature indicates that the
extent of employment mobility
among people with psychiatric
disabilities is low, even though
most of them want and can work.
Furthermore, while supported
employment has significantly
improved competitive work
outcomes throughout the world,
it leads to sustained work in
only 25-35% of persons with
psychiatric disabilities, while most
person loss jobs within a few
weeks/months after beginning
them or never obtain competitive
work.
Methodology & Theoretical
Orientation: Shekulo Tov is a
non-profit organization and a
service supplier for the Israeli
Ministry of Health for more than
3,000 service users. Shekulo Tov’s
integrative model represents an
essential change of perception
vis-à-vis vocational rehabilitation.
It is a formative shift from the two
sequential approaches of “train,
then place” or “place then trains”
to a simultaneous approach of
“train and place”. The model’s
continued development led to
the formation of the Shekulo
Tov Group which operates in a
large number of businesses and
organizations as “integrative
units” based in the community,
who all embedded the model.
Among Shekulo Tov Group
businesses: Rebooks (second-
hand bookshops), Good Coffee
(social cafes), God Dog (dog
walkers).
Findings: The Integrative Model
has successfully transitioned
more than 25% of service users
from vocational rehabilitation to
open labor market placements.
Furthermore, the model has
reduced service users’ preparative
vocational training for open labor
market placement from 4 years to
20 months.
Conclusion & Significance:
Along ongoing support, job
applicants are offered vocational
rehabilitation, skills and career
development, training programs
and are provided with necessary
preparation and support to
measure their vocational
progress. This gives them a
security net, especially in cases,
they did not hold their job in
the free market. In these cases,
service users can temporally
return to vocational rehabilitation
while looking for a new job in the
free market.
Biography
Irad Eichler founded “Shekulo Tov Group” in
2005 and is the group chairman ever since.
“Shekulo Tov Group” is a leading Israeli
organization for vocational recovery. He and
mental health professional in Shekulo Tov
Group, such as CRO Hagar Aloush, developed
The Integrative Model in cooperation with
the Israeli Ministry of Health. Shekulo Tov’s
Integrative model was awarded the “Project
Zero” prize for impactful social enterprises
in early 2017, categorized under Innovative
Practice 2017 on Employment, Work and
Vocational Education and Training. In addition,
he is the founder of “7 chairs”, a platform for
text support groups and the founder of “Israeli
social business school”, an Israeli third age
festival and a podcaster. He is a serial social
entrepreneur and was announced by the world
economic forum as a social entrepreneur of
the year 2008.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EMERGENCYMENTAL HEALTH AND HUMAN RESILIENCE 2019, VOLUME 21
DOI: 10.4172/1522-4821-C2-029
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