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Unlike other models for job rehabilitation, IPS (Individual Placement and Support) does not   consider a person’s ability to work first, or use training. The basic philosophy is that all people with a serous mental illness are able to work in the ordinary labour market. 

The challenge is to find the right job in the right workplace.

The philosophy is that people with a serious mental illness can begin salaried work without workplace training, and that no-one should be denied access to that opportunity. You do not wait for people to become ‘employable’ before approaching the open labour market. Instead they are considered to be ‘ready’ when they say that they want to work.

Research shows that symptoms, drug abuse or other individual characteristics do not represent a strong or clear obstacle to working when the users have been helped by IPS.

Source: stockholm.se/alfa