RRTC - Vocational Rehabilitation. About Us. Overview The Rehabilitation Research & Training Center: Evidence-Based Practice in Vocational Rehabilitation (RRTC-EBP-VR) is designed to generate knowledge and evidenced based vocational rehabilitation practices that improve employment rates, and quality of employment for persons with disabilities.
Through collaboration with key stakeholders (VR, community partners, rehabilitation researchers, families and individuals with disabilities), this RRTC will engage in a comprehensive, participatory action research process to identify, study and exchange essential elements that contribute to successful outcomes. Focus Research and Knowledge Translation: the multidimensional, active process of ensuring that new knowledge gained through the course of research ultimately improves the lives of people with disabilities, and furthers their participation in society (NIDRR, 2005). Mission Statement Impact Organization Funding National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR) Project Partners. In every step of research, materials development, and training and participation processes, RRTC-EBP-VR engages with a diverse array of VR service providers, community partners, rehabilitation researchers, and families and individuals with disabilities.
These partners, many of whom serve on RRTC-EBP-VR’s Internal and External Advisory Councils, consistently communicate and engage in activities to sustain and further RRTC-EBP-VR’s goal to ensure that the products developed by RRTC-EBP-VR result in improved employment outcomes, and quality of employment, for people with disabilities who receive services within the federal-state VR system. Following are key institutions and organizations partnering with RRTC-EBP-VR: Department of Rehabilitation Psychology and Special Education Stout Vocational Rehabilitation Institute (SVRI) Michigan State University Council of State Administrators of Vocational Rehabilitation (CSAVR) Southern University at Baton Rouge.
Capacity Building and Sustainability. In collaboration with key partners, we have developed the following protocols to ensure the capacity building and sustainability of RRTC-EBP-VR’s focus on research and knowledge translation: the multidimensional, active process of ensuring that new knowledge gained through the course of research ultimately improves the lives of people with disabilities, and furthers their participation in society (NIDRR, 2005).
Capacity Building Sustainability RRTC-EBP VR Goal: To actively engage the Internal and External Advisory Councils in strategic planning to maintain current RRTC functions and to expand the scope and function in related areas through continuous funding via NIDRR and other sources. Research. Archive for Findings. To ensure continued funding vocational rehabilitation (VR) agencies must provide documentation that they deliver effective services efficiently.
Although overall quality of life is an established goal of all VR services, short-term job placement has historically served as the primary measure of service outcomes. Despite its clear importance, job placement as an outcome measure provides little information about consumers and their needs in other life areas. Its limited focus can also obscure the benefits of rehabilitation services beyond vocational placement in treating the whole person.
The International Classification of Functioning (ICF) model is a comprehensive framework to conceptualize chronic illness and disability across the domains of body functions and structures, activity, and participation in society; it also accounts for the impact of personal and environmental factors on functioning. Results Interventions Bottom Line Reade More Source: Fleming, A. Ask the Experts. Practice. Training. Archive for Resources. Archive for Conference. Archive for People with Disabilities and Families. Not Found, Error 404 The page you are looking for no longer exists. Perhaps you can find what you are looking for by searching the site archives! October 2012 September 2012 March 2012 January 2012 November 2011 August 2011. Contact Us. Join Our Mailing List. Rrtcebpvr.