Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College, The City University of New York, 2180 3rd Avenue, New York, NY 10035, USA.
Community Ment Health J. 2012 Aug;48(4):490-502. doi: 10.1007/s10597-011-9440-7. Epub 2011 Oct 2.
Despite the growing integration of supported employment within the mental health system in the United States as well as the widespread use of social enterprises abroad, the fields of mental health and social enterprises remain largely separate in the USA. The mental health field currently lacks a response that strengthens homeless youths' existing human and social capital, provides them with marketable job skills and employment, and impacts their mental health. To address this gap, this paper establishes a case for using social enterprises with homeless youths, drawing on both global precedents and findings from a mixed-methods study of a social enterprise intervention with homeless youths. Recommendations are offered for how to integrate social enterprises with mental health treatment as well as how to evaluate their impact on mental health outcomes.
尽管支持性就业在美国精神卫生系统中的融合程度不断提高，并且在国外广泛使用社会企业，但精神卫生领域和社会企业在美国仍然基本是分开的。精神卫生领域目前缺乏一种能够增强无家可归青年现有人力和社会资本、为他们提供有市场价值的工作技能和就业机会并影响他们心理健康的应对措施。为了解决这一差距，本文通过对一个社会企业干预无家可归青年项目的混合方法研究，提出了一个使用社会企业服务无家可归青年的案例，同时借鉴了全球的先例和研究发现。本文还就如何将社会企业与精神卫生治疗相结合以及如何评估其对精神健康结果的影响提出了建议。
