Mental illness, like any health concern, can disrupt the ability to work. Less than 20 percent of people who receive publicly funded mental health services are employed, although research consistently demonstrates that, with the right supports, 40-60 percent of people with serious mental illness (SMI)...
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Promoting Integrated Employment: Lessons Learned from States' Efforts to Transform Their Employment Service Systems for People with Intellectual Developmental Disabilities
Integrated employment is defined as participation in competitive employment in which people with disabilities work alongside people without disabilities for at least minimum wage. This issue brief describes five states' efforts to increase integrated employment for people with intellectual or developmental...
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Center for Studying Disability Policy (About Us)
The Center for Studying Disability Policy (CSDP) provides leadership and support for disability research and data collection conducted by Mathematica.
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BOND Implementation and Evaluation: Process Study Report
The Benefit Offset National Demonstration (BOND) tests variants of Social Security Disability Insurance program rules governing work and other supports. This report summarizes the findings of the process analysis to date, focusing primarily on BOND implementation in each site from September 2012–September...
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The Characteristics and Experiences of English Learner Students with Disabilities in Secondary School: Evidence from the National Longitudinal Transition Study 2012
This research compares English learner students with disabilities to other students with disabilities and other English learners in secondary school on measures linked to post–high school outcomes, using the National Longitudinal Transition Study 2012.
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The SourceAmerica Pathways to Careers™ Demonstration Pilot in Utah: Interim Evaluation Report, Executive Summary
The report documents the activities of the pilot Pathways project in Utah and the experiences of participants from the time the pilot project launched in May 2012 through December 2016, the fourth full year of implementation.
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SSI and DI Beneficiaries with Work-Related Goals and Expectations
In this report we present findings of an in-depth analysis of working-age Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and Social Security Disability Insurance (DI) beneficiaries who report having work goals and/or expectations.
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Impacts of Waiting Periods for Home- and Community-Based Services on Consumers and Medicaid Long-Term Care Costs in Iowa
Using a quasi-experimental design, this study assessed the effects of waiting periods on the costs of Medicaid long-term care and the risk of long-term nursing home stays and hospitalizations.
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Vocational Rehabilitation Outcomes for Students Participating in a Model Transition Program
The authors examined vocational rehabilitation service and outcome differences between youth with disabilities who participated in a model transition intervention and youth with disabilities who did not.
