Type of Project: Funded project Model project
IPS-ZIB - Individual Placement and Support-Coaching - Back into professional life

Previous practice: The current situation in psychiatry is characterized by a strong break in care after hospital treatment. There is little relation of the SGB-V hospital world to the world of work and the possibilities of rehabilitation. Such breaks ultimately lead to a high proportion of even young mentally ill people in workshops for the disabled or to a high proportion of early retirement due to reduced earning capacity. In the case of pension insurance, the focus is on time-limited measures for integration, but support ends quickly after people take up employment. Supported employment hardly plays a role. Measure and innovation potential: The target group needs early, precisely fitting interventions that begin during treatment and are integrated into the transition process to ensure participation in working life, which, if necessary, lead to (initially) permanent support in the workplace. The evidence-based response in adults to this question is offered by the Supported Employment (SE) Approach with (open-ended) IPS (Individual Placement and Support) coaching by a job coach as its central core. New are 1. The very low-threshold access directly from the psychiatric hospital treatment (full/partial inpatient and institutional outpatient up to three months after full/partial inpatient treatment). 2. The early assessment, starting if possible before the illness becomes chronic. 3. The comprehensive and personalized intervention for re-entry into working life, including further individual support in the workplace, which builds directly on this. 4. The use of a flexible individual budget in the context of IPS coaching is also innovative. 5it should be emphasized that the synchronized and coordinated support of IPS coaching by the regular psychiatric treatment system overcomes this usual interface. Definition of objectives: The main objective is to reach and support mentally ill people with complex support needs in hospital treatment through early individual-oriented evidence-based interventions for participation in working life (Individual Placement and Support, IPS), so that sustainable professional integration into the general labor market is made possible. Specified sub-goals regarding job participation as well as the networking of agents are available. Additional knowledge gain: Evidence-based Supported Employment approaches (IPS-Coaching) offer a high potential for psychiatric rehabilitation. The model project is scientifically accompanied and investigates under the realistic conditions of psychiatric care whether the approach is tried and tested in everyday treatment, which combinations of existing standard services and IPS coaching make sense in individual cases and which supplementary conditions are necessary for a supporting network on site. Prospect of continuation: As soon as it becomes apparent which combinations of existing standard services and IPS coaching prove to be practicable, the people- and process-related intervention can be "rolled out" as a standard offer and, if necessary, replace standard measures of the DRV. The main issue to be addressed is the interface during the course of the intervention, i.e., which people actually need permanent support in the workplace and how and where this service, including the regional network, is institutionally anchored.