The Ohio Supported Employment Coordinating Center of Excellence is a joint project of the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences and the Department of Psychiatry at Case Western Reserve University. The center is focused on helping to implement and evaluate evidence-based employment services provided to individuals with a severe mental illness. The staffing and funding of the center is described, as are the current research projects, future directions, and the implementation lessons learned. This article is the latest in a series of reports of social work research centers published in Research on Social Work Practice.
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