This brief addresses a single question: How do CILs and VR agencies collaborate to support youth with disabilities? The brief summarizes results from interviews with staff from seven CILs and an analysis of VR agency program administrative data to consider CIL-VR collaborations.
This executive summary summarizes an evaluation of RWJF’s funded partners’ health insurance outreach and enrollment efforts in the 2022 Marketplace open enrollment period, including strategies to engage community power-building organizations and address structural racism.
This report summarizes Mathematica’s evaluation of RWJF’s funded partners’ health insurance outreach and enrollment efforts in the 2022 Marketplace open enrollment period, including strategies to engage community power-building organizations and address structural racism in outreach and enrollment processes.
This brief provides findings from a case study of the Southern California Resource Services for Independent Living, and shares insights on its approach to serving minority youth.
Linking Learning to Careers offered services designed to improve the college and career readiness of high school students with disabilities by enhancing and customizing their education and employment services. This implementation report describes the experience implementing the program and presents findings...
Way2Work Maryland offered an innovative package of services to high school students with disabilities that emphasized work-based learning experiences. This report describes the implementation of Way2Work Maryland and presents findings on participants’ service use.
Kentucky’s state vocational rehabilitation agency participated in the Substantial Gainful Activity (SGA) project, an intervention designed to increase the earnings of Social Security Disability Insurance beneficiaries. This article describes Kentucky’s implementation experience and program outcomes.
State vocational rehabilitation (VR) programs can potentially help disability-insured workers stay at work or return to work when they experience a disability. The purpose of this longitudinal study is to examine Social Security Disability program entry before and after VR application.
This brief describes the Linking Learning to Careers program in postsecondary education services.
The Vermont Division of Vocational Rehabilitation’s Linking Learning to Careers (LLC) program provides enhanced services to help high school students with disabilities as they make the transition to careers or postsecondary education. These enhanced services include access to assistive technology.
The authors document the earnings in the sixth calendar year after youths’ vocational rehabilitation (VR) applications and Social Security Administration (SSA) benefit outcomes during the six years after their VR applications.
This guide is designed for directors, managers, and coordinators who lead CHIP and Medicaid outreach and enrollment activities at their organizations. It’s based on the work of organizations that participated in the federal government’s Connecting Kids to Coverage grant program.
This report presents findings from the Kentucky SGA Project demonstration. The demonstration implemented innovations designed to improve the employment outcomes of nonblind state vocational rehabilitation clients receiving Social Security Disability Insurance.
Recent federal policy changes require vocational rehabilitation (VR) agencies to increase the share of spending they allocate to services for specific types of transition-age youth, though limited information exists about the outcomes for these different types.
The studies provide rich contextual information about how enrollment for services is related to employment and disability program outcomes but limited evidence regarding impacts.
This report presents findings on Kentucky’s experience implementing the Substantial Gainful Activity (SGA) Project demonstration during the first nine months of operation.
This study describes the extent to which vocational rehabilitation (VR) applicants receive Social Security Disability (SSD) benefits before or after VR application.
This systematic review of the research on the effectiveness of adult employment assistance interventions for individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) found two quasi-experimental studies that met inclusion criteria.
This study tested a new conceptual model for the relationship between race, personal history characteristics, and quality of employment outcomes for white, black, and Hispanic participants to examine an old question: Are there still racial disparities in vocational rehabilitation employment outcomes?