Which type of community-based mental health support emphasizes helping individuals with mental illness obtain competitive work in the community and provide the supports necessary to ensure their success in the workplace?
A) Transitional employment
B) Supported education
C) Sheltered workshop
D) Supported employment

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Historically, segregated "sheltered" workshops were typically the only work option for many with SMI. These provided rote and repetitive work with pay at a subminimum piecework rate. In the 1950s, transitional employment (TE) programs were initiated by Fountain House to help members acquire the skills needed for competitive employment (Dulay & Steichen, 1982; McKay, Nugent, Johnsen, Eaton, & Lidz, 2018). In communities without TE, workshops often remained the only vocational program. Recently, consumer advocacy for competitive work opportunities and evidence supporting integrated employment has led to a paradigm shift away from isolating workshops and to the defunding of these programs (Luciano & Meara, 2014). Contemporary programs enable mainstream employment at prevailing wages (McKay et al., 2018). Supported employment (SE) is an evidence-based approach for people with SMI that "emphasizes helping them obtain competitive work in the community and providing the supports necessary to ensure their success in the workplace" (SAMHSA, 2009, p. 9). Both SE and TE apply principles of recovery and promote community integration through the attainment of competitive employment that matches people's capabilities. SE and TE are provided by psychosocial rehabilitation and peer-delivered programs and state mental health and vocational rehabilitation agencies (SAMHSA, 2009). SE has no time limits; TE programs are time-limited (usually, 6-9 months). The SAMHSA (2009) SE evidence-based kit is a primary resource on how to build, implement, evaluate, and sustain an SE program.

Which Type of Community-Based Mental Health Support Emphasizes Helping Individuals