A St. Louis-based rehabilitation program is working to cut Missouri’s high unemployment rate among adults with severe mental illness.
The Independence Center received a $290,000 grant from the St. Louis Mental Health Board’s Community Mental Health Fund to expand the center’s Employment Services Program. Joe Shaffer, the center’s clubhouse director, said securing the grant was welcome news.
“[It’s] just instrumental in our ability to expand our employment services, which are really core to what we do at the Clubhouse at Independence Center,” Shaffer said. “[It] really aligns with our belief in employment as a vital part of mental health recovery.”…