Human Resources committee  With regard specifically to housing, what we heard from a number of participants in our study was that there were unintended barriers created due to the nature of rent subsidy programs. For instance, someone who was living in rent geared to income housing and who experienced a re

Human Resources committee  I think it's really essential to look at what the wage subsidy is attached to. For instance, to go back to your interest in housing, we know that a best practice in mental health housing is to have the supports attached not to the housing unit but to the individual. So they are n

Human Resources committee  I think one of the best things happening right now is that there is a focus on training and education with regard specifically to the mental health disability population. One of the things we have to consider is when that disability first manifests, when the first onset is. With

Human Resources committee  Yes, and that's what I'm really saying is so important to our population. If we were to lose those people at that point, then we'd really lose, in some cases, a lifetime of vocational trajectory, of career building, etc. So for this particular population, that intervention in the

Human Resources committee  From a research perspective, with regard to mental health housing, it's very important to speak not simply of housing, but of housing with supports. It's the combination of the right housing and the right supports for the person in the place and time where they're at with regard

Human Resources committee  With regard to psychological disability, we know that there are more women than men who report psychological disability. That doesn't necessarily mean more women than men have the disability, only that more women report the disability. I agree with my colleagues that many of the

Human Resources committee  I'm happy to begin. Actually, yes, we did work in consultation with experts from the OECD on our research. As a part of our research we examined efforts that a number of other jurisdictions have made toward a capacity-focused paradigm shift. I would say that the most successf

Human Resources committee  Thank you very much. The piece of the Aspiring Workforce research that I'm going to focus on today is the challenges that people with mental health disabilities—those in the disability support system—face in navigating the very complex relationships between workforce participati