Australia’s Disability Employment Services Program: Participant Perspectives on Factors Influencing Access to Work

Disability employment programs play a key role in supporting people with disability to overcome barriers to finding and maintaining work. Despite significant investment, ongoing reforms to Australia’s Disability Employment Services (DES) are yet to lead to improved outcomes. This paper presents find...

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Autores principales:	Alexandra Devine, Marissa Shields, Stefanie Dimov, Helen Dickinson, Cathy Vaughan, Rebecca Bentley, Anthony D. LaMontagne, Anne Kavanagh
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Publicado:	MDPI AG 2021
Materias:	disability employment programs vocational non-vocational and structural barriers to work paid employment for people with disability Medicine R
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:3cd9419010994fd1aef0c4a7f3d858aa2021-11-11T16:36:43ZAustralia’s Disability Employment Services Program: Participant Perspectives on Factors Influencing Access to Work10.3390/ijerph1821114851660-46011661-7827https://doaj.org/article/3cd9419010994fd1aef0c4a7f3d858aa2021-10-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/18/21/11485https://doaj.org/toc/1661-7827https://doaj.org/toc/1660-4601Disability employment programs play a key role in supporting people with disability to overcome barriers to finding and maintaining work. Despite significant investment, ongoing reforms to Australia’s Disability Employment Services (DES) are yet to lead to improved outcomes. This paper presents findings from the Improving Disability Employment Study (IDES): a two-wave survey of 197 DES participants that aims to understand their perspectives on factors that influence access to paid work. Analysis of employment status by type of barrier indicates many respondents experience multiple barriers across vocational (lack of qualifications), non-vocational (inaccessible transport) and structural (limited availability of jobs, insufficient resourcing) domains. The odds of gaining work decreased as the number of barriers across all domains increased with each unit of barrier reported (OR 1.22, 95% CI 1.07, 1.38). Unemployed respondents wanted more support from employment programs to navigate the welfare system and suggest suitable work, whereas employed respondents wanted support to maintain work, indicating the need to better tailor service provision according to the needs of job-seekers. Combined with our findings from the participant perspective, improving understanding of these relationships through in-depth analysis and reporting of DES program data would provide better evidence to support current DES reform and improve models of service delivery.Alexandra DevineMarissa ShieldsStefanie DimovHelen DickinsonCathy VaughanRebecca BentleyAnthony D. LaMontagneAnne KavanaghMDPI AGarticledisability employment programsvocationalnon-vocational and structural barriers to workpaid employment for people with disabilityMedicineRENInternational Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Vol 18, Iss 11485, p 11485 (2021)
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spellingShingle	disability employment programs vocational non-vocational and structural barriers to work paid employment for people with disability Medicine R Alexandra Devine Marissa Shields Stefanie Dimov Helen Dickinson Cathy Vaughan Rebecca Bentley Anthony D. LaMontagne Anne Kavanagh Australia’s Disability Employment Services Program: Participant Perspectives on Factors Influencing Access to Work
description	Disability employment programs play a key role in supporting people with disability to overcome barriers to finding and maintaining work. Despite significant investment, ongoing reforms to Australia’s Disability Employment Services (DES) are yet to lead to improved outcomes. This paper presents findings from the Improving Disability Employment Study (IDES): a two-wave survey of 197 DES participants that aims to understand their perspectives on factors that influence access to paid work. Analysis of employment status by type of barrier indicates many respondents experience multiple barriers across vocational (lack of qualifications), non-vocational (inaccessible transport) and structural (limited availability of jobs, insufficient resourcing) domains. The odds of gaining work decreased as the number of barriers across all domains increased with each unit of barrier reported (OR 1.22, 95% CI 1.07, 1.38). Unemployed respondents wanted more support from employment programs to navigate the welfare system and suggest suitable work, whereas employed respondents wanted support to maintain work, indicating the need to better tailor service provision according to the needs of job-seekers. Combined with our findings from the participant perspective, improving understanding of these relationships through in-depth analysis and reporting of DES program data would provide better evidence to support current DES reform and improve models of service delivery.
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author	Alexandra Devine Marissa Shields Stefanie Dimov Helen Dickinson Cathy Vaughan Rebecca Bentley Anthony D. LaMontagne Anne Kavanagh
author_facet	Alexandra Devine Marissa Shields Stefanie Dimov Helen Dickinson Cathy Vaughan Rebecca Bentley Anthony D. LaMontagne Anne Kavanagh
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title	Australia’s Disability Employment Services Program: Participant Perspectives on Factors Influencing Access to Work
title_short	Australia’s Disability Employment Services Program: Participant Perspectives on Factors Influencing Access to Work
title_full	Australia’s Disability Employment Services Program: Participant Perspectives on Factors Influencing Access to Work
title_fullStr	Australia’s Disability Employment Services Program: Participant Perspectives on Factors Influencing Access to Work
title_full_unstemmed	Australia’s Disability Employment Services Program: Participant Perspectives on Factors Influencing Access to Work
title_sort	australia’s disability employment services program: participant perspectives on factors influencing access to work
publisher	MDPI AG
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Australia’s Disability Employment Services Program: Participant Perspectives on Factors Influencing Access to Work

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