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Disability Innovation Fund’s Subminimum Wage to Competitive Integrated Employment Project Evaluation

2022-2028

Project Overview

Objective

To evaluate the Disability Innovation Fund Program's 14 grantee-led projects for the Subminimum Wage to Competitive Integrated Employment Model Demonstration.

Project Motivation

The Subminimum Wage to Competitive Integrated Employment Model Demonstration projects aim to decrease subminimum wage employment and increase competitive integrated employment among people with disabilities currently employed in or contemplating subminimum wage employment. These projects seek to address an evolution in advocacy, policy, and practice toward a shift to competitive integrated employment and away from subminimum wage employment.

Partners in Progress

M. Davis and Company

Prepared For

US Department of Education Rehabilitation Services Administration

The Disability Innovation Fund Program's Subminimum Wage to Competitive Integrated Employment Model Demonstrations reflect a significant investment by the Rehabilitation Services Administration to increase competitive integrated employment and decrease subminimum wage employment.

The federal fiscal year 2022 Disability Innovation Fund is supporting fourteen state grantees to improve options for transitioning people with disabilities from subminimum wage employment to competitive integrated employment. The national evaluation will allow the Rehabilitation Services Administration to look across all Subminimum Wage to Competitive Integrated Employment projects and identify findings useful for the vocational rehabilitation and employment fields.

The purpose of the national evaluation is: (1) to identify how, for whom, and in what context the projects and their strategies are most effective; (2) to document how other state VR agencies and their partners can replicate the successful aspects of the projects; and (3) to make findings from the evaluation useful for policymakers and practitioners.

To that end, Mathematica’s evaluation team will answer a range of research questions oriented on five types of analyses (participation, implementation, outcomes, impact, and benefit-cost) and four analysis levels (project participants who are in subminimum wage employment or contemplating subminimum wage employment; 14(c) certificate holders, other employers, and service providers; system changes; and the Subminimum Wage to Competitive Integrated Employment projects).

Related Staff

David Mann

David Mann

Principal Researcher

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Lisbeth Goble

Lisbeth Goble

Principal Survey Researcher

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Noelle Denny-Brown

Noelle Denny-Brown

Principal Researcher

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Marisa Shenk

Marisa Shenk

Researcher

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Cayla Roby

Cayla Roby

Managing Consultant

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