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International Journal of Emergency Mental Health and Human Resilience | ISSN: 1522-4821 | Volume: 20
July 25-26, 2018 | Vancouver, Canada
Psychiatric & Mental Health Nursing
14
th
World Congress on
Mental Health and Wellbeing
5
th
World Congress on
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Labor market inclusion: Long-term employment and career development using the integrative model
at Shekulo Tov Group, Israel
Offer Cohen
Shekulo Tov Group, Israel
Statement of theproblem:
Literature indicates that the extent of employmentmobility amongpeoplewithpsychiatric 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 tomeasure 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
Offer Cohen is the CEO of Shekulo Tov Group. He was the Vice President of Operations in Lehem Erez from year 2001 to 2006. Before he joined Lehem Erez
he was the vice president in Piquanté Factories.
offer@s-tov.org.ilOffer Cohen, IJEMHHR 2018, Volume: 20
DOI: 10.4172/1522-4821-C3-017