Vocational Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on on Demand-Side Strategies

2018

This center produces strategies for assessing employer needs and expectations, strategic planning models that support state vocational rehabilitation (VR) agency efforts to anticipate and prepare for changing employer and labor market needs, identify existing programs that may be useful to VR agencies, and methods for tracking, analyzing and reacting to changing employer needs. research, training, technical assistance, and dissemination activities build upon current knowledge of demand-side strategies and fill a knowledge gap on agency-level practices to address three main themes in improving VR responsiveness to employer needs: (a) integrating labor market and business relations data into business intelligence and strategic planning efforts in Alabama; (b) aligning just-in-time job training with industry needs to ameliorate middle skill labor shortages in Nebraska; and c) testing an emerging and piloted model in four state VR agencies of no-risk, low risk dual customer job placement services created in Vermont. This project is a partnership with The Institute for Community Inclusion at the University of Massachusetts Boston, the Alabama Department of Rehabilitation Services, the Nebraska Vocational Rehabilitation, the Vermont Division of Vocational Rehabilitation, and the New England Council.

demand side strategies, business relations, employer driven

Performing Research or Evaluation

Employment-Related Activities

Professionals and Para-Professionals

None

National

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