Archived Webinars

The NJ-DVRS RTAC Project Committee Members developed and implemented a unique screening process which enabled NJ-DVRS counselors within the pilot’s project offices to skillfully identify consumers for jobs in New Jersey’s lucrative Financial Services Sector. RTAC Project Team members worked diligently to enhance collaborative efforts between NJ-DVRS and the New Jersey Financial Services Talent Network (FSTN). The NJ-DVRS and FSTN partnership provided opportunities for NJ-DVRS consumers with the skills and interest to explore jobs in financial services.

Since May 2010, the Kentucky Department for Workforce Investment, which is comprised of the Office for the Blind, Office of Vocational Rehabilitation, and the Office of Employment and Training, have been working towards a more unified and collaborative approach to the delivery of workforce development services. Kentucky Office for the Blind has had to adapt to the new business services framework.

As part of California’s Vocational Rehabilitation Modernization efforts, the Vendor Utilization Management project was formally chartered in May 2013 to examine the Department of Rehabilitation’s business model, including the redesign and streamlining of its authorization, invoicing, payments, and disencumbering processes.

Steven W. Collins, Ph.D., Chief Bureau of Planning and Performance, and Libby Moody, MPA, Strategic Planning Coordinator give us an overview of the approaches that they used to report vendor performance in VR.  This webinar is part of a series where members of the NIDRR-funded RTAC project on VR Program Management present the lessons they¹ve learned through their management initiative. The RTAC is a collaborative initiative to identify, test, and disseminate management practices to build a performance management model tailored to the vocational rehabilitation system.

This presentation will provide an overview of the Delaware Division of Vocational Rehabilitation’s Quality Project. Key topics to be addressed include: the key action steps; lessons learned; and quality changes implemented. The presenters will discuss their:

- Vendor summit
- Leadership Retreat
- Staff survey
- AWARE implementation
- Vendor data and performance review
- DVR Leadership realignment
- Motivational Interview Training

The goal of the Colorado Division of Vocational Rehabilitation project was to improve workforce planning.  During the development and implementation of the project the agency was faced with the loss of the agency director and by a time-consuming agency audit. The agency was able to develop a workforce plan and tap into their peer network for support and guidance. This webinar is part of a series where members of the NIDILRR-funded RTAC project of VR Program Management present the lessons they've learned through their management initiative.

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.

The Institute for Community Inclusion (ICI) at the University of Massachusetts, in collaboration with the Vermont Division of Vocational Rehabilitation (VT DVR) is engaged in an exciting research activity that is seeking to replicate and evaluate a promising model in VR. This is the Vermont Progressive Employment model (VTPE) that focuses on both business relations and VR customers with barriers to employment.

This webinar describes VR clients’ educational attainment by patterns of employment closure, the variation of wage between occupation groups, and detailed information on differences of wage according to client’s characteristics (demographic, education, and primary disability).

This webinar will describe the demographic and primary disability variations of VR closure in major occupation groups from 2008 to 2012. The speakers will describe the patterns and trends of variations of demographic characteristics such as age, gender, and racial/ ethnic group. In addition, the webinar will present information on primary disability patterns such as sensory/communicative impairments, physical impairments, cognitive impairments, and psychosocial and other mental impairments.