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- Title
Supporting Prosumer Employment: Results From an Ethnography of Two Ontario Community Mental Health Organizations.
- Authors
Grant, Jill G.
- Abstract
This paper describes an ethnographic study exploring the employment of consumer-survivors at 2 Ontario community mental health organizations. The methodology included interviews with agency staff, participant observation, and document analysis to examine the natural environment of the employees at the 2 organizations and the ways in which the organizations supported the employment of consumer-survivors. The themes identified uncover some of the strategies these organizations use to support consumer-survivor employees: (a) create the context for consumer-survivor employment, (b) encourage autonomy, (c) provide a supportive atmosphere, and (d) set up consumer-survivors for success. These themes lead to specific recommendations related to hiring processes, working conditions, and attitudes.
- Subjects
ONTARIO; EMPLOYMENT of people with mental illness; MENTAL health facility employees; ETHNOLOGY; PARTICIPANT observation; ASSOCIATIONS, institutions, etc.; EMPLOYMENT of people with disabilities; INTERVIEWING; RESEARCH methodology; MENTAL health; RESEARCH funding; SURVEYS; PATIENT participation; ETHNOLOGY research; QUALITATIVE research; THEMATIC analysis
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health, 2010, Vol 29, Issue 1, p81
- ISSN
0713-3936
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7870/cjcmh-2010-0007