Supported Employment Demonstration
| dc.contributor.author | Taylor, Jeffrey | |
| dc.contributor.author | Salkever, David | |
| dc.contributor.author | Frey, William | |
| dc.contributor.author | Riley, Jarnee | |
| dc.contributor.author | Marrow, Jocelyn | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-11-03T19:29:31Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2020-11-03T19:29:31Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2020-08-11 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The Supported Employment Demonstration (SED) is a multi-component intervention offered by the Social Security Administration (SSA) to people who alleged a mental impairment on an unsuccessful application for disability benefits. SSA seeks to answer the primary question of whether offering the Individual Placement and Support (IPS) model of employment services integrated with behavioral health and other services and supports results in employment and clinical recovery that leads to less demand for disability benefits. This enrollment report describes the population of eligible individuals who enrolled in the SED and compares this group to the greater study-eligible population of disability applicants alleging a mental impairment who received an initial denial of benefits. The enrollment analysis describes the types of individuals who enrolled, how they compare with non-enrollees, and the factors associated with enrollment. The findings contextualize factors associated with a decision to enroll and clarify the generalizability of outcomes to understand the SED’s impact and resulting policy implications | en_US |
| dc.description.sponsorship | Successfully recruiting 3,000 study participants for a study as large and complex as the Supported Employment Demonstration (SED) requires extraordinary efforts from many individuals beyond those directly involved in the day-to-day operations. The authors appreciate the efforts of these many people who contributed to our enrollment success. First and foremost, we are supremely grateful for the wonderful team of field staff who worked on the SED. We would not have reached our enrollment target of 3,000 participants across all 30 demonstration sites without the perseverance, dedication, commitment, and patience of our 3 field supervisors, 30 local recruiters, and 13 travelling recruiters. We also want to acknowledge the outstanding job of our Operations Team for all their hard work behind the scenes to design, implement, and monitor progress for all SED operations, including recruitment and enrollment efforts. Special thanks to Julie Bollmer, Erika Bonilla, Lynnea Brumby, Giannella De Rienzo, Kaitlynn Genoversa-Wong, Gracelyn Grant, Todd Humphrey, Chiara Jaffe, Robert Lee, Matt Ragan, Dana Saavedra, Alicia Sutherland, and Melissa Wilson. We also want to recognize our two field directors, Joy Browne and Tracy Davis, for their phenomenal job overseeing and supporting the field staff. We are particularly appreciative of the support of the Social Security Administration, especially Thomas Hale, Ph.D., the Contracting Officer’s Representative (COR); and Marion McCoy, Ph.D., the Alternate COR. Each one worked extremely hard in many ways to support the study. Whether it required getting last minute approvals, providing program data files, or coordinating with various SSA staff to help answer questions about SSA program data files, Tom and Marion were always ready to step in and provide guidance to facilitate seamless study operations. We especially appreciate the assistance from Emily Roessel and Paul O’Leary in helping to develop the recruitment files using data from the Structured Data Repository. We also wish to thank the directors of the 30 demonstration sites, their boards, and their staff whose efforts and commitments to support the study and provide the best services possible to applicants denied disability benefits—not their typical clientele—were invaluable. Research sites often do not fully recover the actual costs of participating in studies such as the SED. For this reason alone, it takes an extremely dedicated director to commit center staff and resources to participate in large research studies of this nature knowing that there is an unrecoverable cost. The SED is no different. The directors and staff of the 30 community agencies deserve a large share of the credit for helping to make the SED a success thus far. We also thank the many computer systems, statistical, operations, and data management staff at Westat who worked tirelessly to develop and maintain the study’s infrastructure which facilitated the successful coordination of daily activities across 30 locations, especially so for the recruitment effort. Finally, we are most grateful to the 3,000 individuals who entrusted us with their care by enrolling in the SED. No small amount of courage is required to commit to 3 years of participation in a research effort—knowing that assignment to one of the two treatment groups is not a given. | en_US |
| dc.description.uri | https://www.ssa.gov/disabilityresearch/documents/SED-FinalEnrollmentAnalysisReport.pdf | en_US |
| dc.format.extent | 67 pages | en_US |
| dc.genre | reports | en_US |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.13016/m2iexz-tqm7 | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Jeffrey Taylor et al., Supported Employment Demonstration, https://www.ssa.gov/disabilityresearch/documents/SED-FinalEnrollmentAnalysisReport.pdf | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11603/20006 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Social Security | en_US |
| dc.relation.isAvailableAt | The University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | UMBC School of Public Policy Collection | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | UMBC Faculty Collection | |
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| dc.title | Supported Employment Demonstration | en_US |
| dc.type | Text | en_US |