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Purpose
The purpose of this Center is to build the capacity of Federal and State public agencies and private entities to support people with disabilities in achieving self-employment, business ownership, or telecommuting as employment outcomes. Two specific objectives will guide the Center's activities.
1) Increase the supply of trained personnel available to public and private agencies.
2) Maintain and improve the skill, knowledge, and quality of rehabilitation personnel.
COVID-19 Is Creating Telework Converts
Telecommuting is the new reality for many U.S. employees. Many are saying they want to continue working from home when the threat of COVID-19 has passed, even as companies grapple with how - and when - to safely return people to the workplace.
How Covid Inspired a New Generation of Entrepreneurs
The pandemic forced everyone to adopt new technology and rethink their jobs, spurring our economy to lean into independent work. - Humans normally respond to big unforeseen shocks in one of two ways: either they recoil from risk-taking as we saw after the Great Depression, leading to the creation of the modern welfare state and a generation that feared the stock market; or they accept that risk is part of life and learn to embrace it - as they did in the Roaring Twenties after the 1918 flu and 1920 recession. So far it looks like we’re going with the 1920s - at least from an economic risk perspective. Entrepreneurship rates are up.
Webcast - Sept 21
Reviewing State Vocational Rehabilitation Self-Employment Policy By Joseph Jones, MPA, Executive Director, The Harkin Institute