“I’m a Better Person When I’m Working”: Supportive Workplaces, Mental Illness, and Recovery

This chapter focuses on the recovery-related benefits of supportive workplaces for Canadians with psychiatric disabilities recovering in the community. There has been little research to date on the efficacy of the social enterprise model in providing people with psychiatric disabilities with supportive and sustainable employment. One exception is a study by Williams et al., which examined the experiences of workers employed within a social …