The Vocational Rehabilitation Youth Technical Assistance Center (VR-TAC)
The Institute of Educational Leadership (IEL) manages this 5-year grant awarded by the Rehabilitation Services Administration, and we are responsible for evaluating the technical assistant training. The project goals are to increase capacity among state Vocational Rehabilitation staff to more effectively support the career and workforce development needs of youth with disabilities as well as other high need youth populations such as homeless youth and those involved in the foster care and juvenile justice systems. We are in the fifth year of this evaluation project directed by Drs. Martin and Solberg with support from doctoral students Hayoung Kim and Bushra Ismail and masters students Turner Block and Yanling Dai. The project team develops evaluation tools, analyzes the results of the various evaluation efforts, examines the overall impact of this work, and prepares reports that the federal government will use to assess the efficacy of the technical assistance efforts and determine future technical assistance needs.