This report examines the employment and welfare system in relation to young people with mental illness and education and employment. It makes a number of recommendations which the authors hope will allow people at the outset of a mental illness to not lose their dreams of the future.

An evaluation of the operation of Job Network in the first three years of the Active Participation Model (APM). It shows the APM increased net employment impacts and commencement rates for Intensive Support job search training and customised assistance. It also saw a reduction in the costs per employment outcome and employment outcomes under the...