Symposium

This session explores Long COVID as an emerging disability that affects health, functioning, and employment.

Explore evaluation findings from Nebraska’s Career Pathways Advancement Project, a VR model that supports career advancement and business partnerships.

This session offers civilian professionals a deeper understanding of military culture and the veteran experience. Drawing from PsychArmor’s nationally recognized “15 Things a Veteran Wants You to Know,” presenter Lisa Duckworth challenges stereotypes and shares practical ways to connect more respectfully with veterans.

This session focuses on improving access to competitive integrated employment (CIE) for individuals with brain injury through supported and customized employment.

In this session, presenters share findings from a national focus group study identifying quality indicators that support successful competitive integrated employment (CIE) for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD).

This session introduces a data-informed model for collaboration among educators, VR counselors, and community providers working to improve outcomes for youth with disabilities.

This session explores the complex relationship between disability benefits, financial well-being, and the desire to return to work for individuals with serious mental illness (SMI)

Learn how the Justice-Involved Learning Community (JILC) collaborated over the past year to develop a resource toolkit that supports VR counselors working with individuals impacted by the criminal legal system.

In this session, you’ll learn how a new self-employment toolkit can support your agency in improving the quality and consistency of self-employment outcomes for individuals with disabilities.