Promoting Entrepreneurship Among Low-Income Youth with Disabilities
| IL-Institute on Disability & Human Development, UCEDD/LEND | |||
| Program Type | LEND,UCEDD | Fiscal Year | 2020 |
| Contact | Fabricio Balcazar, PhD | ||
| [email protected] | |||
| Phone | 312-413-1646 | ||
| Project Description | |||
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DHD professor Fabricio Balcazar and DHD associate professor Sarah Parker Harris were awarded a $2.3 million research grant from the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living and Rehabilitation Research. The project, Promoting Entrepreneurship Among Low-Income Youth with Disabilities, aims to develop and conduct formative and summative evaluations of a school-based model intended to promote self-employment outcomes among transition-aged youth with disabilities from low-income communities. The project will be implemented in collaboration with a school for dropouts called Youth Connection Charter School and with the Illinois Division of Rehabilitation Services. Balcazar is the PI and the Co-PIs are Parker-Harris and Maija Renko from the UIC College of Business. |
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