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Job Seekers Workshop (JSW) to improve employment outcomes
Summary of the evidence
The Job Seekers Workshop (JSW) is a model that provides short-term, small group sessions focusing on locating available jobs, making “cold calls” to potential employers, and rehearsing job interview skills. JSW is among the interventions/programmes aimed at improving employment outcomes evaluated in a narrative review (Magura et Marshall, 2020, 14 studies).
The review showed no significant effect on:
- improving employment outcomes
The other interventions reviewed are: Individual Placement and Support (IPS), Customized Employment Supports (CES), Therapeutic Workplace (TW), Drug court employment interventions.
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Note: this evidence summary is only valid for the outcomes, target groups, settings and substances/patterns of use described below.
