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  • Illinois IPS
    • About Illinois IPS
    • Illinois Employment First Interagency Council
  • Learn about IPS
    • IPS Basics
  • Work Changes Lives
  • Employment Corner: Get & Keep a Job
  • IPS Training & Education
    • Training Tools & Resources
    • IPS Webinars
    • IPS Podcasts
  • IPS for Families & Natural Supporters
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Join these Trendsetters!

These Illinois Employers Already Work with Supported Employment 

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Jewel-Osco
Costco
K-Mart
McDonald's 
United Parcel Service (UPS)
Club Demonstration Services
Citywide Janitorial & Disposal
Total Facility Maintenance 

A+ Security
Salvation Army
Street Wise
National Alliance on Mental Illness

Chicago Lighthouse for the Blind
Easter Seals
Hyundai USA
Ashley Stewart 

​Paramount Staffing
Helping Home
AQC Home Care
Gareda Home Health
Golden Year Home Health Care
Smarty Pants Learning Center
Levy Restaurants
 
Five Loaves Restaurant
Honey 1 BBQ

La Principal Restaurant​​
​Buffalo Wings and Things 




Listen Up!
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​Podcasts Spotlight Employers of Workers with Mental Health Conditions

MADO Healthcare Hires IPS Clients
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University Medical Center Hires Peer Specialists​
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Watch & Learn
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The Business Case for Supported Employment 

Hear from a McDonald's franchise owner about how supported employment helped his business meet its quality goals.
Learn how a salon, restaurant, and parking vendor benefited from partnering with a mental health supported employment program.
118 stories & counting: How Microsoft's supported employment program meets its workforce needs while giving back. 
Employer 101: How does supported employment help the employer?
Learn about Individual Placement and Support in Illinois.

Tales from the Field   

These employers are taking millennials' mental health seriously. 
Worried about hiring employees with mental illness? Here's why you shouldn't be.  
Why I hired an executive with mental illness.

Employer Tools

Learn about tax benefits for businesses that hire employees who have consistently faced significant barriers to employment.
1 in 5 employees has a mental health problem. Here's what business leaders can do about it.  
Toolkit on employing people with mental illness.

Tips for your Human Resources Department

How to advertise your intention to hire workers with disabilities.
Get support for recruiting, retaining, and advancing workers with disabilities.
Lifting the stigma of mental illness in the workplace.
Helping supervisors and coworkers be supportive of employees with mental illness.
Employers' guide to reasonable accommodations under the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Guide to advertising for and interviewing people with lived experience of mental health issues.
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