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Disability Employment Policy Rehabilitation Research and Training Center

Research to enhance employment opportunities for people with disabilities.

Disability Inclusive Employment Policy Rehabilitation Research and Training Center

Research to enhance employment opportunities for people with disabilities.

Highlights

Enabling Employment: How Do Employer Disability Practices Affect Disability Employment Outcomes?

New research brief from The Burton Blatt Institute and The Southeast ADA Center – Lingering Inequalities in the Information Age: An Examination of Disparities in Internet Access Among People with Disabilities

DIEP and EDPC RRTCs State-of-the-Science Conference Archives Available

New research brief from The Southeast ADA Center – Exploring Disparities in Poverty Rates Among People with Disabilities

Who We Are

The Disability Employment Policy Rehabilitation Research and Training Center (DEP RRTC) is funded by the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR, grant #90RTEM0006-01-00) in the U.S. Department for Health and Human Services. Burton Blatt Institute at Syracuse University, Harvard Medical School, and Rutgers University are partnering to design and implement a series of studies that produce new data and evidence on DIEP policy to increase employment rates and outcomes for persons with disabilities.

What We Do

The DEP-RRTC will examine federal, regional, state, and private industry policies and programs to identify critical outcomes and impacts that improve employment entry options, better wage and income levels, worker retention and job quality and benefits, career growth and paths to economic stability, employment reengagement in the event of job loss and reduced dependence on Social Security disability benefits.