"...to expand, improve, and enhance quality employment services
for individuals with serious mental illness."

SECT Center Services

• Training on tools and competencies for individuals who provide employment services
• Facilitation of trainings by nationally and locally recognized speakers
• Strengthening partnerships between employment service providers and Vocational Rehabilitation Services
• Supplying materials, including Moving Ahead Without Fear, a Social Security Work Incentives manual, and SE Works!, a quarterly newsletter
• Collaboration with other organizations to increase cost-effectiveness and quality of supported employment outcomes
• Partnership with key stakeholders (e.g. federal, state, and local agencies, advocates, service providers) to overcome barriers or disincentives to employment for persons with serious mental illness.
• Presentations at international, national, state, and local conferences

The SECT Center also provides consultation and training services to supported employment programs at community mental health centers on:

• Best practice recommendations for supported employment services
• Data collection and program evaluation
• Development and utilization of outcome management systems
• Staff development
• Overall program enhancement
• CARF (The Rehabilitation Accreditation Commission) accreditation standards for employment and community services
• Joint Commission Employment Services and Vocational Rehabilitation Accreditation Standards
• Strategic planning for supported employment services
• Support of regional networks for employment services at community mental health centers

Indiana Works Service

• Indiana Works Information