Friday, May 9, 2025
5/9/2025
RRTC on Employment Among Transition-Age Youth with Disabilities 2024 - Virginia Commonwealth University Rehabilitation Research and Training Center, in partnership with the Michigan State and University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, will serve as a National Resource Center to conduct groundbreaking research and implement training and technical assistance on Employment Among Transition-Age Youth with Disabilities. We have developed objectives that focus on identifying culturally responsive practices to improve the employment outcomes of transition-age youth from understudied and underserved communities. To meet this goal, we will work collaboratively with people with disabilities from each of these communities throughout the research design and implementation process. These objectives include: a) scaling up and evaluating the efficacy of a paid employment intervention for high school students with autism, b) evaluating the efficacy of professional development training designed to improve paid employment outcomes of college students with disabilities, c) exploring and developing a culturally responsive support and integrated services model for Indigenous youth, d) developing and evaluating an intervention for at-risk youth with disabilities, e) developing and evaluating a peer mentoring intervention to increase career development for blind, low-vision and deaf/blind students, and f) exploring the promotion of work and well-being for foster care youth with disabilities. These activities will result in advanced research and training and technical assistance for transition-age youth and their families, vocational rehabilitation professionals, educators, and other stakeholders interested in the employment outcomes of people with disabilities. Attention will be paid to ensuring that all training and dissemination is accessible, culturally responsive, and trauma-informed.
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