APSE: The Network on Employment's Board of Directors is happy to announce the appointment of Laura Owens, PhD to assume the position of Executive Director beginning October 1, 2008. Laura has worked with the APSE National Office for the past year as Public Policy Fellow while on sabbatical from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She is the founder of Creative Employment Options -a supported employment provider agency in Milwaukee - a founding board member of Wisconsin APSE, and a former member of the APSE National Board of Directors. She succeeds Celane McWhorter, who has agreed to remain on the APSE staff in a part time advisory capacity to ensure a smooth transition. Additionally, the APSE national office will relocate from
The APSE conference was very successful! We are slowly getting back to normal in the office after conference. For those of you who were not in attendance, you truly missed a terrific time. Sessions were impressive and the enthusiasm was astonishing. Attendance at the conference was good; evaluations were strong; over-all flow of the events was more than smooth; and in short, KY APSE did a phenomenal job of welcoming us to Kentucky ! APSE is happy to report that it was successful both programmatically and financially. Thanks are not enough for KY APSE. To Katie Wolf Smith, Willie Byrd and all the KY APSE board members and volunteers who worked so hard, it was truly awesome!
We wish to thank the APSE Foundation and all who joined their list of conference sponsors and exhibitors. The generous support was used to ensure a most successful 2008 conference and training event. Please click here to view the sponsor and exhibitors lists. If given the opportunity during the year, we ask APSE members to join us in personally thanking these individuals, agencies and buisnessees for this support.
Letter from the APSE Executive Director to the Hon. Nancy Pelosi, Office of the Speaker, encouraging the passing of the ADA Amendments Act of 2008.
Summer, 2008 issue of theAdvance now online. Read about the national APSE conference in Louisville and more!
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The Spring 2008 issue of the Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal is a Special Tenth Anniversary Issue on Supported Employment (1998-2008) edited by Robert Drake and Gary Bond. The papers in this special issue summarize the remarkable success of evidence-based supported employment from many perspectives including personal testimony and quantitative synthesis. Articles cover the most rigorous studies of supported employment currently available and describe large multi-site projects that confirm the potential of supported employment to be helpful to thousands of persons with severe mental illness in different settings, communities, states and countries.
APSE members can take advantage of a time-limited Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal online only individual subscription offer. Please visit the Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal's website for more details on both the Special Tenth Anniversary Issue and subscription details.
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September 11 - 12, 2008
Ohio APSE
OH APSE Conference
September 17 - 19, 2008
Wyoming APSE
19th Annual Conference
September 17 - 19, 2008
South Carolina APSE
Supported Employment Training
September 17, 2008
Mississippi APSE
Mississippi APSE 1st Annual Golf Tournament
September 18 - 19, 2008
Mississippi APSE
The 1st Annual Mississippi APSE Conference
October 5 - 7, 2008
Virginia APSE
Collaborations Conference
October 6 - 8, 2008
Wisconsin APSE
WI APSE Annual Conference