[Socioprofessional integration of users of a service teaching work habits]

Programs for the social and professional rehabilitation of people suffering from mental illness are more or less successful. A substantial proportion of people cannot with this help, find or maintain a job; moreover many prematurely leave their rehabilitation program. This retrospective study attempts to identify variables associated to 1) the fact of completing the program and related to 2) maintaining a working activity in a regular environment, once the program is completed. The research is conducted with 67 people registered in an apprenticeship of working habilities program. The study shows that the fact of being in a first stage of socioprofessional rehabilitation is associated with participants staying in the program. The time spent in the program and the participants' level of education are also related to the success of integration. Variables regarding diagnosis are not associated to the different trajectories of the people. Suggestions to adjust intervention are proposed in this paper.