Evaluation of IPS Grow: Final report

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Picken, Natalie

Contributor:

Gilder, Lucy

Gloinson, Emily Ryen

Hofman, Joanna

Ling, Tom

Language:

English

Other Title:

Evaluation of IPS Grow

Place of Publication:

Santa Monica, Calif. RAND Corporation 2021

Summary:

Individual Placement and Support (IPS) is an evidence-based model which supports people with serious mental illness into employment. In order to increase access to IPS services nationally, NHSE and Improvement has allocated funds to specific sustainability and transformation partnership (STP) areas. A proportion of funding was dedicated to IPS Grow: a national implementation support initiative that aims to speed up the time that services take to deliver high quality IPS and to ensure their sustainability. IPS Grow provides technical implementation support, workforce development support and data tools and performance standards support, through an online platform, networking and events, and support from a dedicated team. Our evaluation used a theory-based approach and a logic model to examine IPS Grow's impact on funded IPS services. We aimed to answer seven evaluation questions through a combination of methods, including telephone interviews, focus groups, case studies, online surveys and a targeted documentation review (including of reports and plans from services' IPS fidelity reviews). The study aimed to examine the uptake of support from IPS Grow by IPS services, explore the perceptions of IPS Grow by key audiences, and examine the impact that different elements of support from IPS Grow had on services, depending on their organisational features.