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Disability Employer Practices RRTC

Award Number: 90RTEM0008
ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DISABILITY, INDEPENDENT LIVING, AND REHABILITATION RESEARCH
OPDIV: ACL
AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY
AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: OTHER
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 09/22/2021
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 08/31/2027

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Disability Employer Practices RRTC - Disability Employer Practices RRTC ABSTRACT The objective of the Disability Employer Practices RRTC is to produce new scientifically rigorous, and scalable, data and evidence to meaningfully increase the employment of persons with disabilities. The RRTC brings unprecedented partnerships with leading universities and prominent disability organizations, in collaboration with major companies and smaller businesses across market and labor sectors. Over the next five years, the RRTC will design and implement a series of studies, using quasi-experimental and randomized control trials, to provide valid, reliable, and scalable metrics as to employment practices for persons with disabilities across the employment life cycle, with particular consideration of post-COVID pandemic “new norm” business practices facing American businesses, and their job applicants and new hires, in retaining, advancing, and accommodating employees with disabilities. Together, Rutgers, Syracuse, and Harvard University researchers, with a strong history of collaboration and expertise on the employment of persons with disabilities, will work with three prominent disability employment organizations: National Organization on Disability (NOD), Disability:IN, and Bender Consulting, each nationally recognized by employers and persons with disabilities as experts on employer practices for recruiting, hiring, accommodating, retaining and advancing workers with disabilities. The projects in this RRTC are among the first to use and integrate quasi-experimental and randomized control trial (RCT) studies to examine the identification, efficacy, and scalability of employer practices hypothesized to measurably increase information necessary for workplace climates of inclusion, employee-employer trust, and positive employment outcomes, among other core outcomes. The RRTC also proposes a scientifically rigorous and expansive, yet focused, examination of people with disabilities via an intersectionality lens, focused on individuals with disabilities who have multiple minority identities along race/ethnicity, gender identity and sexual orientation, and age. The findings will provide diverse individuals across the spectrum of disabilities and employers access to new, practical, and effective knowledge, and knowledge translation, to explore innovative paths to employment and career advancement, with measurable outcomes addressed. The RRTC has three integrated primary project streams: (1) Quasi-experimental evidence on best practices across the employment life cycle from committed major companies and smaller businesses; (2) RCT evidence on effects of practices on trust and self-disclosure among job applicants and current employees, and from interventions on accommodations for individuals with less visible disabilities (e.g., mental health, cognitive); and (3) Effects of practices on smaller employers and healthcare workers. The projects include studies on ways to improve post-COVID “new norm” employer practices to affect positively the employment status of people with disabilities. The research constitutes a major leap forward in analysis of disability employment practices. The data will provide a robust basis for understanding causality underlying the relationship between disability practices and employment outcomes for people with disabilities. RRTC products will include virtual and in-person trainings for business leaders, VR and workforce development professionals, and people with disabilities, with information in practice briefs and newsletters, academic articles and presentations, webinars and podcasts.


Issue Date FY	Funding FY	Legal Entity Name	Legal Entity Address	Legal Entity City	Legal Entity State	Legal Entity Zip Code	Legal Entity COUNTY	Legal Entity COUNTRY	Assistance Listing	Award Code	Budget Year	Action Date	Action Type	Action Amount

Issue Date FY: 2026 ( Subtotal = $0 )
2026	2024	RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY	3 RUTGERS PLZ	NEW BRUNSWICK	NJ	08901	MIDDLESEX	USA	ACL National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research	02	5	7/7/2026	EXTENSION WITH OR WITHOUT FUNDS	$0
2026	2024	RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY	3 RUTGERS PLZ	NEW BRUNSWICK	NJ	08901	MIDDLESEX	USA	ACL National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research	01	5	6/25/2026	OTHER REVISION	$0
2026	2023	RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY	3 RUTGERS PLZ	NEW BRUNSWICK	NJ	08901	MIDDLESEX	USA	ACL National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research	01	4	4/24/2026	OTHER REVISION	$0
														Subtotal = $0

Issue Date FY: 2025 ( Subtotal = $875,000 )
2025	2025	RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY	3 RUTGERS PLZ	NEW BRUNSWICK	NJ	08901	MIDDLESEX	USA	ACL National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research	00	5	6/25/2025	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$875,000
2025	2024	RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY	3 RUTGERS PLZ	NEW BRUNSWICK	NJ	08901	MIDDLESEX	USA	ACL National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research	00	5	6/25/2025	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$0
2025	2023	RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY	3 RUTGERS PLZ	NEW BRUNSWICK	NJ	08901	MIDDLESEX	USA	ACL National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research	00	5	6/25/2025	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$0
2025	2022	RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY	3 RUTGERS PLZ	NEW BRUNSWICK	NJ	08901	MIDDLESEX	USA	ACL National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research	00	5	6/25/2025	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$0
2025	2021	RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY	3 RUTGERS PLZ	NEW BRUNSWICK	NJ	08901	MIDDLESEX	USA	ACL National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research	00	5	6/25/2025	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$0
														Subtotal = $875,000

Issue Date FY: 2024 ( Subtotal = $875,000 )
2024	2024	Rutgers, The State University	3 RUTGERS PLZ	NEW BRUNSWICK	NJ	08901	MIDDLESEX	USA	ACL National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research	00	4	7/22/2024	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$875,000
2024	2023	RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY	3 RUTGERS PLZ	NEW BRUNSWICK	NJ	08901	MIDDLESEX	USA	ACL National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research	01	3	4/5/2024	OTHER REVISION	$0
2024	2023	Rutgers, The State University	3 RUTGERS PLZ	NEW BRUNSWICK	NJ	08901	MIDDLESEX	USA	ACL National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research	00	4	7/22/2024	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$0
2024	2022	Rutgers, The State University	3 RUTGERS PLZ	NEW BRUNSWICK	NJ	08901	MIDDLESEX	USA	ACL National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research	00	4	7/22/2024	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$0
2024	2022	RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY	3 RUTGERS PLZ	NEW BRUNSWICK	NJ	08901	MIDDLESEX	USA	ACL National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research	01	3	4/5/2024	OTHER REVISION	$0
2024	2021	RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY	3 RUTGERS PLZ	NEW BRUNSWICK	NJ	08901	MIDDLESEX	USA	ACL National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research	01	3	4/5/2024	OTHER REVISION	$0
2024	2021	Rutgers, The State University	3 RUTGERS PLZ	NEW BRUNSWICK	NJ	08901	MIDDLESEX	USA	ACL National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research	00	4	7/22/2024	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$0
														Subtotal = $875,000

Issue Date FY: 2023 ( Subtotal = $875,000 )
2023	2023	Rutgers, The State University Of New Jersey	3 Rutgers Plza	New Brunswick	NJ	08901	MIDDLESEX	USA	ACL National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research	00	3	5/31/2023	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$875,000
2023	2022	Rutgers, The State University Of New Jersey	3 Rutgers Plza	New Brunswick	NJ	08901	MIDDLESEX	USA	ACL National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research	00	3	5/31/2023	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$0
														Subtotal = $875,000

Issue Date FY: 2022 ( Subtotal = $875,000 )
2022	2022	RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY	3 Rutgers Plza	New Brunswick	NJ	08901	MIDDLESEX	USA	ACL National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research	00	2	8/30/2022	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$875,000
2022	2021	RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY	3 Rutgers Plza	New Brunswick	NJ	08901	MIDDLESEX	USA	ACL National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research	00	2	8/30/2022	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$0
														Subtotal = $875,000

Issue Date FY: 2021 ( Subtotal = $875,000 )
2021	2021	Rutgers, The State University Of New Jersey	3 Rutgers Plza	New Brunswick	NJ	08901	MIDDLESEX	USA	ACL National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research	01	1	9/28/2021	OTHER REVISION	$0
2021	2021	Rutgers, The State University Of New Jersey	3 Rutgers Plza	New Brunswick	NJ	08901	MIDDLESEX	USA	ACL National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research	00	1	9/22/2021	NEW	$875,000
														Subtotal = $875,000

Grand Total All Awards = $4,375,000

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Disability Employer Practices RRTC

Award Number: 90RTEM0008

ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DISABILITY, INDEPENDENT LIVING, AND REHABILITATION RESEARCH

OPDIV: ACL

AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY

AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: OTHER

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 09/22/2021

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 08/31/2027

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