Serving Justice-Involved Consumers: A Vocational Rehabilitation Toolkit

Chelsea Brehmer serves as a researcher with the Innovative Partnership for the Advancement of Rehabilitation Research & Training (IPARRT) housed within the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the Wisconsin Center for Education Research (WCER). Dr. Brehmer currently works on the Vocational Rehabilitation Technical Assistance Center for Quality Employment (TAC-QE) grant. Dr. Brehmer received her Ph.D in Community Health from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in August, 2021. Her research interests include reentry and rehabilitation of individuals with disabilities and chronic health conditions that have experienced incarceration, employment as a driver to improve overall participation and wellbeing, and individual career development.

Marcus Weathers Jr. is a doctoral candidate in the Rehabilitation Counselor Education program at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and a student fellow for the Innovative Partnership for Advancing Rehabilitation Research and Training (IPARRT). Marcus is an incoming assistant professor in the Department of Counseling, Higher Education Leadership, Educational Psychology, and Foundations for the Rehabilitation Counseling program at Mississippi State University. His primary area of research focuses on the reentry of individuals with disabilities post-incarceration.