Research Database: Article Details
| Citation: | Honeycutt, T.; Sevak, P.; & Rizzuto, A. (2019). Provision of Pre-Employment Transition Services: Vocational Rehabilitation Agency Variation in the First Program Year of Reporting. Center for Studying Disability Policy, Research Brief, |
| Title: | Provision of Pre-Employment Transition Services: Vocational Rehabilitation Agency Variation in the First Program Year of Reporting |
| Authors: | Honeycutt, T.; Sevak, P.; & Rizzuto, A. |
| Year: | 2019 |
| Journal/Publication: | Center for Studying Disability Policy, Research Brief |
| Publisher: | Princeton, NJ: Mathematica |
| Full text: | https://www.mathematica.org/our-publications-and-findings/publicati... |
| Peer-reviewed? | No |
| NIDILRR-funded? | Yes |
Structured abstract:
| Background: | The Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) of 2014 made sweeping changes to the way vocational rehabilitation (VR) agencies provide services to students with disabilities (see Box 1). Beginning in Program Year (PY) 2017, VR agencies provide detailed quarterly data to the Rehabilitation Services Administration on the individuals involved with their agencies. PY 2017, July 2017 to June 2018, offers the first annual look at how VR agencies provided preemployment transition services under WIOA. The goal of this brief is to present statistics from this first year of reporting to document VR agencies’ implementation of pre-employment transition services that answer the following questions: • What share of VR agencies’ total and students with disabilities caseloads received preemployment transition services? • What share of students with disabilities received each pre-employment transition service? • What share of students with disabilities received pre-employment transition services directly from VR agency staff rather than through other providers? • What share of students with disabilities receiving pre-employment transition services had an individualized plan for employment (IPE)? |
| Disabilities served: |
Autism / ASD Blindness Cerebral palsy Cognitive / intellectual impairment Deafness Developmental disabilities Down syndrome Multiple sclerosis Muscular dystrophy Visual impairment Severe physical disability Multiple disabilities |
| Populations served: |
Transition-age youth (14 - 24) |
| Interventions: |
Individual Placement and Support (IPS) model of supported employment Job search and placement assistance Vocational rehabilitation Self-determination / self-advocacy Transition services |
| Outcomes: |
Employment acquisition Full-time employment |