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Collaborative Relationships Between Vocational Rehabilitation and Other One-Stop Partners

Policy Considerations for Supporting Partnerships

Jaimie Timmons

University of Massachusetts, Boston

Heike Boeltzig

University of Massachusetts, Boston

Allison Cohen Hall

University of Massachusetts, Boston

Doris Hamner

University of Massachusetts, Boston

Sheila Fesko

University of Massachusetts, Boston

The Workforce Investment Act (WIA) brought together federal job training and employment programs to create one comprehensive service system. Among WIA’s core tenets are streamlined services to be developed, designed, and implemented by a variety of mandated and nonmandated partners. The public Vocational Rehabilitation (VR) agency is a mandated partner, and the only one that focuses on disability. Although the intention of WIA was mutual benefit and interaction, the exact nature of the VR partnership with the One-Stop varies. Using a longitudinal research design and case study method, collaborative relationships between other partners in the One-Stop and VR in six U.S. locations was explored. The findings uncovered four models of collaboration: full-time colocation of a few VR staff members, colocation in the same building complex, itinerant staffing, and limited itinerant staffing. There were a number of barriers to collaboration and strategies used in and among the various models to facilitate involvement of VR.

Key Words: workforce development • collaboration • vocational rehabilitation

This version was published on September 1, 2009

Journal of Disability Policy Studies, Vol. 20, No. 2, 67-78 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/1044207308325009
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