The New Employment-Focused RRTCs

The new Rehabilitation Research and Training Centers will be national centers of excellence where collaborative interdisciplinary studies address the current and emerging employment design needs of policy makers, employers, people with disabilities and their families.

NIDRR Director
(Personal communication, October 21, 1998)

The new employment-focused Rehabilitation Research and Training Centers are undertaking a variety of research projects that are consistent with the "New Paradigm of Disability" and NIDRR’s purpose and focus for research on the employment of people with disabilities.

Following are brief introductions to the six new employment-focused RRTCs and their research projects.

Rehabilitation Research and Training Center for Economic Research on Employment Policy for Persons with Disabilities ($700,000 per year)
Cornell University
Program on Employment and Disability
School of Industrial and Labor Relations
106 ILR Extension Building
Ithaca, NY 14853-3901

PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORS

Susanne Bruyère, Ph.D. and Richard Burkhauser, Ph.D. at Cornell University,
and David Stapleton, Ph.D. at The Lewin Group, Fairfax, VA

CONTACT PERSON
Susanne Bruyère, Ph.D.
(607) 255-7727
smb23@cornell.edu

http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/ped/dep/rrtc.html

RESEARCH PROJECTS INCLUDE

1. Analysis of the current employment status of persons with disabilities using existing longitudinal data.
2. Longitudinal analysis of the effects of labor market change on the employment and earnings of people with disabilities.
3. Longitudinal analysis of return to work after the onset of a disability.
4. rights protections on the employment and earnings of people with disabilities.
5. Identification and analysis of policies that foster or impede the participation of transitioning students in rehabilitation or employment service programs.

Dr. Susanne Bruyère, Project Director, said "the Cornell center will study the role of the economy, public policies, and other environmental factors on the employment and economic self-sufficiency of persons with disabilities" (S. Bruyère, personal communication, October 29, 1998).

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Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Workforce Investment and Employment Policy for Persons with Disabilities ($450,000 per year)
Community Options, Inc.
1130 17th Street, NW, Suite 430
Washington, DC 20036

PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
Michael Morris

CONTACT PERSON
Michael Morris,
(202) 721-0120
coisvp@aol.com
http://www.coptions.com/

RESEARCH PROJECTS INCLUDE

1. Development of a policy matrix with critical variables in a post-ADA environment to analyze the relationship between select State and Federal policies upon the employment of persons with disabilities.
2. of targeted State policies and practices regarding the implementation of the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program and the Workforce Investment Act consistent with ADA and Section 504 requirements of equal access and opportunity.
3. Analysis of selected State efforts to implement work incentive systems change grants from the Social Security Administration to identify barriers and facilitators to improved work status of persons with disabilities and the critical linkage to access to affordable health care.
4. Analysis of policy-based implications of outcome-based reimbursement and customer direction and control on the delivery of employment and rehabilitation services to persons with disabilities.
5. Analysis of case studies of small and large businesses of the effect of civil rights protections and multiple environmental factors on promoting or depressing the employment status of persons with disabilities.

Director Michael Morris states that the RRTC "will analyze public policies that increase or decrease the employment of people with disabilities" (M. Morris, personal communication, October 14, 1998).

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