Archived Webinars

This is another webinar in the series of the webinars on the impact of Affordable Care Act on funding VR services. Robert "Bobby" Silverstein will be presenting results from his latest paper. This webinar will illustrate the policy actions that can be taken by VR agencies, as the Affordable Care Act will allow many states to minimize their VR agency's expenditures for insurance services and increase the number of clients they were otherwise able to serve.

Informational Session on the VR-RRTC on Demand-Side Strategies Study and Learning Collaborative

The Institute for Community Inclusion (ICI) and the Vermont Division of Vocational Rehabilitation (DVR) are pleased to have hosted a webinar, which provided information about Vermont’s Progressive Employment (PE) Model and discussed the opportunity for state VR agencies to engage in a research project aimed at replicating the model using a learning collaborative approach.

This webinar hosted by Robert 'Bobby' Silverstein and the Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Vocational Rehabilitation (VR RRTC) complements Bobby's timely new paper Funding Health-Related VR Services: The Potential Impact of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) on the Use of Private Insurance and Medicaid to Pay for Health ­Related Services.

This webinar is the second in a series looking at promising practices in prioritizing and delivering of services to individuals with the most significant disabilities (MSD). Presenters will highlight results from case studies identifying strategies that VR agencies have used to manage outreach, service access, and case flow to ensure that individuals with MSD are served on a priority basis. Strategies include tools to manage priority categories, fiscal and human resources, performance, waitlists, and stakeholder communication.

The Research and Technical Assistance Center (RTAC) on VR Program Management released a request for participation in a research project in late November 2011 for a 12-month learning collaborative laboratory.  This webinar served as an information session for those interested in learning more.

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This webinar is the first in a series looking at promising practices in prioritizing and delivering of services to individuals with Most Significant Disabilities (MSD). Presenters will discuss results from case studies identifying strategies that VR agencies have used to manage outreach, service access, and case flow to ensure that individuals with MSD are served on a priority basis. Strategies include tools to manage priority categories, fiscal and human resources, performance, waitlists, and stakeholder communication.

The third webinar in the VR fiscal series reviews the critical policy and practices issues to be considered in the development of third party funding and other options, such as interagency transfer, for meeting the match requirements for the Title I VR federal funds. There was review of the federal regulations and guidance including the issues raised during third party match in recent RSA monitoring.

Researchers present and discuss the findings of a systematic review of empirical research on the public VR system spanning 1970 to 2008. The review aimed to characterize the public VR program in terms of its programmatic and systematic features, the types of customers served, and the kinds of outcomes achieved as resported in research studies. More broadly, the review aimed to describe the existing VR research base, including gaps in research, and to make recommendations for future research investment.

The TACE I and the VR-RRTC at ICI / UMass Boston presented on Vocational Rehabilitation financial strategies for achieving match funding and managing the financial options available to VR. Presenters discuss developing strategies for managing funds and maximizing the flexibility of VR funds.

The TACE I and the VR-RRTC at ICI / UMass Boston presented on Vocational Rehabilitation financial strategies for achieving match funding and managing the financial options available to VR. Discussed strategies and approaches to getting match funding to maximize states federal allotment. The focus was on the development and implementation of a strategy to achieve full state match through the budget process.