x 🧑‍🦽IMSPARK: Empowered and Resilient Workers in the Pacific 🧑‍🦽

  🧑‍🦽Imagine... Empowered and Resilient Workers in the Pacific 🧑‍🦽

💡 Imagined Endstate: 

In the next 3-5 years, the Pacific region will enhance its vocational rehabilitation services to support workers with disabilities who face complex and evolving challenges in the labor market. 

🔗Link:

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📚Source: 

Taylor, J. P., Avellone, L., Wehman, P., & Brooke, V. (2023). The efficacy of competitive integrated employment versus segregated employment for persons with disabilities: A systematic review. Journal of Vocational Rehabilitation, 58(1), 63-78.

💥 What’s the Big Deal: 

By using tools such as pre-employment transition services, personalized healthcare, and digital technologies, 💻vocational rehabilitation services will help workers with disabilities achieve competitive integrated employment, increase their income and independence, and improve their quality of life.🌈Vocational rehabilitation is a vital sector for the Pacific region, as it provides opportunities and support for workers with disabilities, who often face discrimination, marginalization, and poverty. 🏢Vocational rehabilitation can also help workers with disabilities cope with the impacts of domestic risks, such as natural disasters, pandemics, cyberattacks, and social unrest, which can disrupt their employment and well-being. Vocational rehabilitation requires imagination and innovation to address the diverse and dynamic needs of workers with disabilities and to prepare them for the future of work.

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🎖️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,