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Joe Marrone
Senior Program Manager for Public Policy
B.A., Lemoyne College
M.Ed., Northeastern University
Joe Marrone is a telecommuting Senior Program Manager for Public Policy, based in Portland, OR, at the Institute for Community Inclusion. He is currently most involved in projects related to national technical assistance and keynote presentations on policy and programmatic design issues related to workforce development/WIA and customers with disabilities, employment/recovery within mental health systems of care, welfare reform and customers with disabilities, marketing and business services, and state-level employment policies affecting citizens with disabilities.
He was the Coordinator of Technical Assistance and the Director of Training at the Center on Promoting Employment (RRTC) at ICI until January, 1999. From 1999-2000, he was the Associate Director of Columbia River Mental Health Services for Psychosocial Rehabilitation in Vancouver, WA. In 2004, he was one of five National Rehabilitation Association Mary Switzer Scholars selected nationwide.
Joe has consulted, trained, and lectured in 48 states, Canada, Puerto Rico, Europe, and Asia and was featured in a lengthy interview about work and mental illness in the Summer 2004 issue of Reintegration Today. He was on the faculties of the New England Psychiatric Rehabilitation Training Program for over 15 years. Before that, he served on the faculties of the Michigan State University Long-Term Training Grant in Psychiatric Rehabilitation and the University of Pittsburgh/Western Psychiatric Institute's National Psychiatric Rehabilitation Training grant. Joe has also been an adjunct faculty member of the New England School of Professional Psychology and the Boston University School of Medicine. He has authored numerous articles, monographs, and book chapters, some of which can be downloaded below.
- Email: jm61947@aol.com
ICI publications by Joe Marrone
Comparison of VR Outcomes for Clients with Mental Illness across System Indicators
Issue 47 Research to Practice (12/2008)
Recovery with Results, Not Rhetoric
This report examines ways that the workforce development system can help people with psychiatric disabilities find good jobs. (1/2005)
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Title 1: Employment
Brief overview of the concepts and scope of the Americans with Disabilities Act, plus resource lists. (6/1998)
Columbia MetroWest Human Services: A Study of Persistence, Planning, and Producing Change
A case study of an organization that underwent a major transformation resulting in greatly expanded opportunities for individually focused employment and community support for people with developmental disabilities. (7/1998)
Mass Bay Employment Services (a service of Bay Cove Human Services, Inc.): A Story of Leadership, Vision, and Action Resulting in Employment for People with Mental Illness
The story of an organization, working with people with serious mental illness, that made enormous strides in a very short time in moving from a non-employment-oriented day program to one that had employment as its primary goal. (4/1998)
Select outside publications by Joe Marrone
Marrone, J. (2005). Creating hope through employment for people who are homeless or in transitional housing. American Journal of Psychiatric Rehabilitation. 8(1), 13-35.
Marrone, J., Foley, S., and Selleck, V. (2005). How Mental Health and Welfare to Work interact: The role of hope, sanctions, engagement and support. American Journal of Psychiatric Rehabilitation.8(1), 81-101.
Foley, S., Marrone, J., and Simon, M. (2002). Cruise ships and kayaks: Welfare and rehabilitation approaches for women with disabilities in poverty. Behavioral Sciences and the Law Journal, 20(6), 659-680.
Marrone, J. (2001). JUST DOING IT: Helping people with mental illness get employment. Canadian MH Assn Journal 14(1).
