Transitional employment improves lives of adults with mental illness
Date Posted: October 19, 2011
The ability to earn a living is a major life goal for most adults, including those who, like Jack Grillo, live with major mental illnesses. “My steps to recovery from bipolar disorder can be retraced in terms of work,” Grillo wrote in the October 2009 issue of Psychiatric Services, a journal of the American Psychiatric Association. Now employed part-time at UMass Medical School’s Center for Mental Health Services Research, Grillo credits the transitional employment (TE) program of Worcester’s Genesis Club with helping him achieve his employment goals. Read the Article