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Drs. Sumsion and Shaw are pleased to be the coeditors of this special issue of the journal WORK, focusing on mental health and innovative strategies that support work transitions for persons with long term mental health conditions. Dr. Thelma Sumsion is committed to the ongoing application of client-centred practice as it affects clients with severe and persistent mental illness. This goal is clearly connected to enabling their successful entry or return to the workforce. Dr. Lynn Shaw is committed to promoting research on work transitions for persons with disabilities. Papers in this issue offer a range of interdisciplinary strategies that can promote transitions to productive employment. The authors of these papers include multiple stakeholders; researchers and practitioners from a variety of backgrounds, such as occupational therapists, occupational scientists, vocational rehabilitation professionals, psychiatrists, mental health researchers, nurses, physicians, and educators; employment support agencies; consumer agencies; community agencies; employers and; persons with mental illness/ consumers. What is unique about this issue is the emphasis on the use of cases that offer exemplars of collaborative approaches to support work transitions that include community agency representatives and consumers as coauthors. In addition, this issue of the journal includes diverse types of papers. Case studies include individual narratives (Penhale et al., Cockburn et al.), a collaborative case study (Bergmans et al.), and an organizational case study (Lal and Mercier). Research studies include qualitative investigations of barriers and strategies to support work transitions using document analysis (Krupa et al.), and focus groups (Cowls and Galloway, Moll et al.), and two quantitative studies into mental health outcomes and factors (Jackson et al., and Dewa et al.).

There is so much more to do: Strategies and research needs to support work transitions for persons with chronic mental health conditions