NCT01629953

Assessing Supported Employment With Veterans With Felony Convictions and Mental Illness or Substance Abuse

Assessing Supported Employment With Veterans With Felony Convictions and MI or SA

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 140 (actual)
• Sponsor: VA Office of Research and Development · Federal
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This study continues to develop and refine best practices in the delivery of vocational services to veterans with histories of felony convictions and mental health/substance abuse difficulties. There are currently over 225,000 incarcerated veterans and it is estimated 64,000 veterans are released from prisons annually. These veterans encounter significant difficulties in finding employment due to stigma, intrapersonal difficulties, and out-dated work skills. Additionally these veterans are more likely to be homeless than other population., Previous work has found that manual based, vocational groups led by trained vocational staff led to quicker employment compared to traditional vocational services and manual based self studies. To attempt to improve on previous results, this study adds principles and components of supported employment including ongoing follow-up, treatment team coordination, and community based assistance.

Conditions

• Employment

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Group vocational intervention	Group based manualized vocational rehabilitation
OTHER	Supported Employment Condition	Veterans in this condition will receive a proven group based manualized vocational rehabilitation intervention

Timeline

• Start date: 2011-10-31
• Primary completion: 2016-10-31
• Completion: 2019-05-01
• First posted: 2012-06-28
• Last updated: 2019-06-17
• Results posted: 2018-05-22

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States