A Life in the Day: Volume 5 Issue 1

Editorial

Bob Grove

What sort of ‘support’ in employment?

Rachel Perkins, Erik Evenson, Shareen Lucas, Emma Harding

Despite a growing amount of literature concerning the success of supported employment initiatives in enabling people with mental health problems to work successfully in open…

Gaining insight from experience: lessons from a Flemish employment programme

Chantal Van Audenhove, Guido Lissens

The Flemish ECHO project is a joint initiative of some Flemish mental health services in close co‐operation with the LUCAS research institute (Catholic University Leuven). In this…

Snapshots from the East

Raluca Nica, Olga Rjabova

As the European Union (EU) looks east for further expansion, we in the UK will need to form partnerships with organisations in the emerging democracies of Central and Eastern…

Negotiating the funding maze

Mee Ng

Mee Ling Ng of Outset Consultancy Service (OCS) offers some thoughts and tips on where to find funding. A life in the day will have a regular section on funding issues and would…

Real Lives Real People: an Opportunity for learning

Mind

Specialist Networks

Adam Pozner

While there have been many innovations in the field of work rehabilitation in recent years, there is still a paucity of research in this area. Nevertheless, interest in this area…