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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As someone with a kid with severe mental illness who struggles to maintain employment, can someone tell me how you "require" them to get a job?

When my kid got fired because delusions made him act in unexpected ways at work, or when he doesn't get hired in the first place because the executive functioning deficits that come with the medication he needs to keep hallucinations at bay were obvious in the interview, how do I just "require" a different outcome?

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I can tell you how one of my relatives did it.  UMC family, sent their kid to work in a supermarket.  Like collecting carts in a parking lot.  They felt it’s very important for him to know that everyone has to go to work and he is expected to work in whatever capacity he can.  Lots of their friends were very surprised that they didn’t just pack his schedule with therapies.  It seems to have worked as he went through a few mall jobs, ended up working in a jewelry store, showed a great aptitude with jewelry and is now training in jewelry repair and working for a smaller store.  [/quote]

Collecting carts is the kind of job my kid has been fired from.  [/quote]

+1 My sibling has a mental disability and is terrified of people. Even when we got him jobs with no public facing role, he became paranoid of the boss, then coworkers and no matter what, always ends up in-patient within months of trying a new job. [/quote]

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