What are major challenges that homeless service providers encounter as they try to implement employment services?
They are discovering that the field has not caught up with what we know. We know that traditional vocational approaches to employment for people with various personal challenges do not work. We know that supported employment does work. The recession is causing further cutbacks in budgets and resources that were already very limited, meaning increased competition for fewer jobs and resources. As a result, employers who are struggling to keep their workers on the job may be reluctant to hire consumers – posing an added challenge to employment specialists.
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