Supported Employment
Empowering Competitive Employment
Park Center’s Supported Employment team helps individuals with a wide range of abilities and experience to obtain and maintain competitive employment and educational opportunities.
Services
We provide extra support to find the right job and the ongoing follow-up necessary to ensure success. Services include:
Person-centered planning and development of job and educational goals
Assistance with resume development
Assistance with completing job applications
Mock job interviews and support through the actual interview process
Assistance with job placement
Continued support for as long as the individual determines
Our Approach
A Proven Method
Park Center’s Supported Employment program utilizes the Individual Placement and Support (IPS) method of delivering services, which is the most extensively researched method of its kind. Park Center was the first agency in Tennessee to implement the IPS method. Principles of IPS include:
- A focus on competitive employment
- Eligibility is based on choice and does not depend on where they are in their recovery
- Integration of rehabilitation and mental health services
- Attention to worker preferences
- Personalized benefits counseling
- Rapid job search happens within 30 days of program entry
- Systematic job development through building relationships with a diverse group of employers in the community
- Time-unlimited and individualized support for as long as the member desires
Eligibility
- For adults with a mental health diagnosis
- Serves Davidson, Rutherford, Sumner, Wilson, Cheatham, Montgomery, and Robertson counties
- Zero Exclusion – People are not excluded on the basis of readiness, diagnoses, symptoms, substance use history, psychiatric hospitalizations, homelessness, level of disability, or legal system involvement.
This program is accredited by CARF, an independent, nonprofit accreditor of health and human services
This project is funded under a Grant Contract with the State of Tennessee, Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services.
Make a Referral
To get connected to our services, please follow one of the links below.
