The Dual-Customer Dynamic: How are State VR Agencies Developing their Staffing and Agency Infrastructure to Meet the Needs of Businesses?
The ICI administered the 2014 National Survey of Vocational Rehabilitation (VR) Agencies and Business Relations to further examine state VR agencies’ capacity for assessing and meeting business needs.This brief focuses exclusively on the staffing and organizational structure module, intended to determine the skillsets of business relations staff as well as the VR agency infrastructures within which these indiv
Turning Labor Market Facts into Labor Market Information: LMI’s Effectiveness for Vocational Rehabilitation
Authored By: Katie Allen, Doug Keast, Rick Kugler, Joe Marrone, & Kartik Trivedi
Why LMI? Demand-Side RRTC and JD-VRTAC assess VR usage & needs
The field of VR has increased its focus on labor market information (LMI) as a direct response to the both the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) and the President’s Executive Order on Job Driven Training of January 2014. In light of this focus, the ICI set out to explore LMI’s use and utility for state VR agencies.
Vocational Rehabilitation Working with Job-Driven Data: From Business Engagement to Employment
Authored by: DeBrittany Mitchell, Dana Jefferson, and Russ Thelin
This brief highlights state practices and lessons learned from the Job-Driven Vocational Rehabilitation Technical Assistance Center’s Business Engagement Data Community of Practice.
Vocational Rehabilitation and Community College Customized Training Partnerships: Practices and Challenges
Authored By: Katie Allen, Neil McNeil, and Kartik Trivedi
Small Business Relations: Establishing Partnerships with a “Dual-Customer” Approach
Review VR Issue NO. 8, 2015
Review VR Brief Series on Vocational Rehabilitation Employment Patterns: Demographic and Primary Disability Variations in VR Occupational Closures (2008-2012)
Review VR Issue NO. 6, 2014
By Libin Zhang, Kartik Trivedi, and Susan Foley
Review VR Brief Series on Vocational Rehabilitation Employment Patterns: Occupation Types and Trends (2008–2012)
Review VR issue NO. 4, 2014
The Institute for Community Inclusion at the University of Massachusetts Boston is conducting a series of analyses linking occupational closure data from the Rehabilitation Services Administration’s Case Service Report (RSA-911) to labor market trends and needs, as reflected in labor market information (LMI). This effort is funded by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research as part of the VR-RRTC on Demand-Side Strategies in Vocational Rehabilitation (VR).
Demand-Side Strategies: Prevalence of Business Employment Representatives in Vocational Rehabilitation Agencies
Review VR Issue NO. 1, 2012
Elizabeth Porter, Ngai Kwan, Joe Marrone, & Susan Foley report finding on VR Business Employment Representatives from the 2011 National Survey of State Vocational Rehabilitation Agencies.