🎖️IMSPARK: Employment Trends for Veterans with Disabilities🎖️

🎖️Imagine... Employment Trends for Veterans with Disabilities🎖️

💡 Imagined Endstate: 

Veterans with disabilities achieve greater independence and quality of life through evidence-based vocational rehabilitation and supportive employment policies.

🔗 Link: 

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📚 Source:

Houtenville, A., Ottomanelli, L., & O’Neill, J. (2023). nTIDE Deeper Dive: Employment Trends for Veterans with Disabilities - 11/17/2023. Center for Research on Disability.

💥 What’s the Big Deal:

Veterans with disabilities are outpacing other groups in the labor market, 🚀reaching historic highs in employment. 💼This is a result of their resilience, adaptability, and access to effective interventions 🙌  such as the Individual Placement and Support model for spinal cord injury.

#Veterans,#QOL, #Evidence-Based, #VocationalRehabilitation,#IMSPARK, 

 

🚗IMSPARK: Transit-Oriented Development🚗

🚗Imagine... Transit-Oriented Development🚗

💡 Imagined Endstate: 

By 2030, Hawaii has transformed its urban landscape with transit-oriented development (TOD), creating vibrant, walkable, and affordable communities along the rail corridor. 

🔗 Link: 

https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2023/11/23/promise-transit-oriented-development-how-hong-kong-singapore-can-inspire-hawaiis-plans/ 

📚 Source: 

Cristobal, E. (2023, November 23). The promise of transit-oriented development: How Hong Kong and Singapore can inspire Hawaii’s plans. Hawaii News Now. 

💥 What’s the Big Deal: 

TOD is a strategic approach to urban planning that integrates public transportation, housing, and amenities within a compact area. TOD can offer multiple benefits for Hawaii, such as:

• 🌱 Reducing traffic congestion and greenhouse gas emissions by encouraging the use of rail and other modes of transportation besides driving.

• 🏡 Increasing housing supply and affordability by creating mixed-income and mixed-use developments near transit stations, with incentives for developers and residents.

• 🤝 Enhancing quality of life and social equity by providing access to jobs, education, health care, and recreation for people of all ages and backgrounds.

#HNN, #TransitOrientedDevelopemnt, #TOD, #Traffic, #Housing, #QOL,#IMSPARK,