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What Works for Work? The Lift/Futur en tête Project

Overview 

Youth are being disproportionately affected by the current economic instability, with a higher rate of young people not engaged in education, employment or training compared with other age groups. Individual Placement and Support (IPS) is a model of supported employment that has been successful in finding and sustaining employment, education and training to individuals who face barriers, such as mental health challenges. IPS has been studied in many contexts, but we need to understand how it works in an integrated youth services setting.  

 

Lift/Futur en tête was a pan-Canadian project that aimed to implement and study IPS in an integrated youth services setting in 12 youth hubs/centres across the country. Lift/Futur en tête was a collaborative initiative among Foundry, two other integrated youth services (ACCESS Open Minds and Youth Wellness Hubs Ontario (YWHO)) and the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH). Four of the 12 sites were Foundry centres: Foundry Penticton, Foundry Kelowna, Foundry Campbell River and Foundry Comox. The team aimed to understand the process of implementing IPS in an integrated youth services setting and the impact of the program through surveys and interviews with service providers and youth accessing the program.   

 

This study was led by Dr. Skye Barbic (Head Scientist at Foundry and Associate Professor at University of British Columbia), Dr. Jo Henderson [Executive Director of Youth Wellness Hubs Ontario (YWHO) and Director of the McCain Centre for Child, Youth & Family Mental Health at CAMH)] and Dr. Srividya Iyer (Scientific-Clinical Director at ACCESS Open Minds and Professor at McGill University).  

Funders 

Lift/Futur en tête was funded by the Government of Canada under the Future Skills program. 

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