Boost your ability to support clients in self-employment with the VRC Self-Employment Proficiency Scale—a practical tool designed to help vocational rehabilitation professionals assess their knowledge and grow their expertise.
High Growth Careers and the Role of Vocational Rehabilitation: 2025 and Beyond
Learn how job seekers with disabilities can use Vocational Rehabilitation Professionals to ensure access to high growth job fields in 2025.
Boosting Employment Success for People with Disabilities: How Partnership Plus Helps VR Professionals
Learn how the Ticket to Work Partnership Plus program benefits both VR professionals and their clients.
Navigating Language in Disability
Get practical tips for navigating the complexities of People-First and Identity-First Language.
Top Ten Essential Resources to Empower Your 2025
Explore resources tailored for professionals serving people with disabilities to overcome barriers, develop innovative strategies, and support quality, meaningful employment.
Toolkits in Action: Turning Ideas into Impact
Learn more about how integrating implementation science ensures the tools VR professionals use are practical, effective, and designed to address the complexities of your day-to-day work.
Self-Employment Toolkit
The Self-Employment in the State-Federal Vocational Rehabilitation System Toolkit is designed to support vocational rehabilitation counselors, consumers, state agencies, and policymakers in navigating self-employment opportunities for individuals with disabilities.
Subminimum Wage Toolkit
The purpose of this toolkit is to provide materials and resources to a variety of invested parties who need to know more about subminimum wage pay.
Outreach and Engagement of Underserved Populations
Get strategies for effective outreach and engagement with diverse populations.
Self-Employment for People with Disabilities: A Special Issue from the Journal of Vocational Rehabilitation
The special issue shares information to influence disability-related employment policy and practices affecting the self-employment outcomes of people with disabilities.
Resource Guide: Supported Employment
This guide helps Vocational rehabilitation agencies offering both supported and customized employment approaches to pursuing employment for people with disabilities about which approach is best based on an individual’s circumstances.
Autism Spectrum Disorders Outreach Guide
Vocational rehabilitation providers who understand the varied experiences of people with autism will be better prepared to provided individualized, effective services that result in quality employment outcomes.
TACQE’s Findings Featured in Journal of Vocational Rehabilitation
Learn more about TACQE’s findings featured in Journal of Vocational Rehabilitation.
Career Pathways
Career Pathways programs address the employee skills gap by providing post-secondary training to meet the workforce requirements of companies in high-demand fields.
Supported and Customized Employment Side by Side Referral Decision Guide
This new Supported and Customized Employment Side by Side Referral Decision Guide can help in determining how to choose between these two employment approaches.
Registered Apprenticeship – A Proven Path to In-Demand, High Quality Jobs
Registered apprenticeships are an increasingly popular way for people to train for and retain high-quality, in-demand jobs.
Getting There with the National Aging and Disability Transportation Center
The National Aging and Disability Transportation Center or NADTC is an organization aiming to improve access to transportation for older adults and people with disabilities.
New Report Highlights Entrepreneur Opportunities for People With Disabilities
The National Center on Self-Employment, Business Ownership, and Telecommuting has issued a report identifying ways Vocational Rehabilitation (VR) agencies can enhance business-ownership and self-employment opportunities for people with disabilities, especially those categorized as having the most significant disabilities.
A Process Guide for Reasonable Accommodations
Vocational rehabilitation counselors play a key role by helping employers interact with jobseekers or employees asking for accommodations.
Employer Supports: Disability Awareness
Explore resources available that can provide employers with the knowledge and tools to engage with jobseekers and employees who have disabilities.
Career Pathways Resources
The National Clearinghouse of Rehabilitation Training Materials (NCRTM) has gathered together a curated list of resources focused on Career Pathways for Individuals with Disabilities (CPID).
Self-Employment Training Resources
Learn more about helping people with disabilities pursue their self-employment and business ownership goals through this curated list of training.
A Framework for High-Quality Pre-Apprenticeships
Jobs for the Future developed a framework to guide the growth and development of Pre-apprenticeship programs.