I receive this quarterly from the National Center for Disseminating
Disability Research. I thought some of you may be interested.
Bobby
National Disability Employment Awareness Month
October 2003
The National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR) in
the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services of the U.S.
Department of Education supports a variety of projects in its Employment Outcomes
research area. Major contributors in this area are NIDRR's Rehabilitation
Research and Training Centers (RRTC). Following are some recent findings and
activities from two RRTCs with a focus on employment outcomes.
* Center on State Systems and Employment (RRTC)
* RRTC on Workforce Investment and Employment Policy for Persons with
Disabilities
This is the third of four messages brought to you by NIDRR's National Center
for the Dissemination of Disability Research as a part of National Disability
Employment Awareness Month.
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Center on State Systems and Employment (RRTC)
University of Massachusetts Boston
<<A HREF="http://www.communityinclusion.org/">http://www.communityinclusion.org/</A>>
The mission of the Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on State
Systems and Employment is to improve the employment outcomes of people with
disabilities through the promotion of responsive, effective, and efficient state
service delivery systems. Results from Center projects include:
* The National Survey of State Systems and Employment Outcomes is a
cross-sectional survey documenting existing structures and functions of seven
employment related state services (disability-specific and generic).
Foley, S.M., Gilmore, D, Dreilinger, D, Sullivan, J., and Bose, J.,
(2002). Patterns of Collaboration among State Agencies and Employment Outcomes. In
Center on State Systems and Employment Rehabilitation Research and Training
Center, Improving Employment Outcomes: Collaboration across the disability and
workforce development systems. Boston: Massachusetts, Institute for Community
Inclusion, Boston, MA.
<http://www.communityinclusion.org/publications/indexb.html#state>
* A study on guided and self-directed approaches describes the
experiences of individual job seekers as they negotiated the service system, and
discusses the obstacles faced during the employment process and personal strategies
used to overcome these barriers.
Hamner, D., Timmons, J.C., and Bose, J. (2002). A Continuum of Services:
The guided and self-directed approaches to service delivery. Journal of
Disability Policy Studies, 13(2), 105-113.
Characteristics of Effective Employment Services: The Consumers'
Perspective.
Boston: Institute for Community Inclusion.
<http://www.communityinclusion.org/publications/monographs.html#rrtc>
Brief reports on job search strategies and effective employment supports:
<http://www.communityinclusion.org/publications/indexb.html#jobsearch>
* Case study methodology was used in a study that examined collaborative
efforts in three states (Kentucky, Minnesota, and Maine) as they worked to
implement WIA and identified promising practices that enable job seekers with
disabilities better access to the workforce system.
Timmons, J.C., Cohen, A., & Fesko, S.L. (in press). Merging cultural
differences and professional identities: Strategies for maximizing collaborative
efforts during the implementation of the Workforce Investment Act. Journal of
Rehabilitation.
Access for All: A Resource Manual for Meeting the Needs of One-Stop Customers
with Disabilities
<<A HREF="http://www.communityinclusion.org/onestop/onestopmanual.html">http://www.communityinclusion.org/onestop/onestopmanual.html</A>>
State and topical case study reports:
<http://www.communityinclusion.org/publications/indexb.html#onestop>
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Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Workforce Investment and
Employment Policy for Persons with Disabilities
Law, Health Policy & Disability Center (LHPDC)
University of Iowa College of Law
<http://disability.law.uiowa.edu/lhpdc/rrtc/>
The mission of the RRTC is to expand knowledge that improves and modifies
disability and generic policy that impacts positively the employment status and
economic independence of Americans with disabilities.
* On June 9th, 2003, Merrill Lynch and the RRTC on Workforce Investment
and Employment Policy for Persons with Disabilities co-sponsored the Corporate
Culture and Disability Symposium to increase dialogue among a blue ribbon
panel representing corporations, persons with disabilities, and researchers. As
follow-up to the meeting, Professor Peter Blanck and Dr. Helen Schartz will be
guest editors of a special issue of Behavioral Science & the Law, a top
peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal, to be published during the fall of 2004.
Archives of the proceedings include sessions from the meeting, and are
available at:
<
http://disability.law.uiowa.edu/lhpdc/archives/2003_merrill_lynch/ml_symp_archive.html>
* On March 19, 2003, the LHPDC sponsored a one-day Open Dialogue in
Washington D.C. on what's working for state and local partnerships serving people
with disabilities on welfare. The Open Dialogue was co-sponsored by the
Administration on Developmental Disabilities; the Office of Disability, U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services; and the Office of Special Education
Rehabilitative Services, U.S. Department of Education. Open Dialogue was held in
response to another LHPDC project to serve people with disabilities on welfare,
the Reach Up Pilot Project begun in Vermont in 2001. For more information,
contact James Schmeling, Associate Director of the RRTC:
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