Research has shown that adults with even severe disabilities are often able to have successful careers and be self-sufficient. But, many of these people are un- or under-employed and living …
Career Development & Employment Research in Rehabilitation – Watch the Free Archived Webcast
Date recorded: January 29, 2019 How does economic distress and trauma effect career development for people with disabilities? What is the role of psychological well-being in the career development process …
Poverty and Disability: An Overview – Watch the Free Archived Webcast
Date recorded: November 16, 2018 Learn how to integrate critical knowledge about poverty and disability into your vocational rehabilitation practice. Cayte Anderson and Tobey Partch-Davies, both experts in how poverty …
The Poverty Disability Model: 4 Groups of Risk Factors
The Poverty Disability Model proposes four groups of poverty risk factors that could cause or worsen disability: It’s important for vocational rehabilitation counselors to provide consumers in poverty with supporting …
It Is Expensive to Be Poor
“Better schools, and better health, and better homes, and better training, and better job opportunities.” These were the chief weapons of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s War on Poverty announced 50 …
Examining Biases to Support Employment as a Means out of Poverty
Poverty affects individuals with disabilities at a much higher rate than individuals without disabilities. Employment is an essential component in escaping poverty. Vocational rehabilitation professionals must be keenly aware of–and …
Policy Matters: Poverty & People with Intellectual Disabilities
At-a-Glance: There is consistent research confirming the connection between poverty and intellectual disability. People with disabilities living in poverty have increased risk of poorer health and social exclusion. The financial …
Child Protective Services: Linking Families to Needed Income Supports
Children in poor families are five time more likely to experience maltreatment than children in non-poor families. Not all families receive the economic supports available to them, yet research shows …
Rural Americans: Disabled, or Just Desperate?
In a joint letter to the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance and the U.S. House Committee on Ways and Means these organizations provide their perspective to dispel the myths they …
Community Conversations: Turn Words into Actions
A recent study conducted by The National Rehabilitation Information Center, with participants ranging from people with disabilities to professionals in the vocational rehabilitation field and stakeholders in the community, concluded …
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