Events & Training

This mini conference examines the complex impacts of post-COVID conditions and Long COVID while offering VR professionals strategies, insights, and resources across clinical, psychosocial, legal, workplace, and ethical dimensions to better support their clients.

This interactive watch party features a pre-recorded presentation and live discussion on strengthening State and Tribal VR partnerships, offering strategies, examples, and resources to enhance collaboration and improve services for students and youth with disabilities.

This training helps Vocational Rehabilitation professionals understand burnout as a response to chronic stress, recognize its symptoms, and apply practical self-care strategies to reduce stress and prevent burnout in themselves and their colleagues.

This training series supports Vocational Rehabilitation Counselors and Business Engagement Specialists in State VR agencies by building knowledge and skills to effectively use labor market information in guiding career decisions and fostering successful employment outcomes for individuals with disabilities.

This 90-minute webinar and Q&A session focuses on self-care for rehabilitation professionals, offering strategies to manage stress, grief, and the unprecedented challenges of the past year while sustaining personal well-being and effective service delivery.

This interactive watch party features a presentation on the 2020 Notice of Interpretation regarding Federal VR funds for pre-employment transition services, followed by discussion on policy updates, funding uses, and their impact on services for students with disabilities.

This webinar introduces the definition and impact of trauma while offering five practical tips to help vocational rehabilitation professionals adopt more trauma-informed approaches in their work with consumers.

This webinar supports State VR supervisors in adapting to remote work by offering strategies, tools, and resources for effective supervision, including performance management, communication, professional development, team collaboration, and planning practices to sustain quality rehabilitation services.

This webinar highlights lessons learned from the multi-state CPID grant, where Georgia, Kentucky, Nebraska, and Virginia share how Career Pathways strengthened workforce and employer partnerships, advanced sector-based approaches, and produced practical exploration tools and resources to support students and adults with disabilities in pursuing high-demand careers.

Get an overview of Pre-Employment Transition Services (Pre-ETS) under WIOA, featuring a tour of WINTAC and NTACT resources and highlighting strategies, tools, and collaborations between VR and education to support students with disabilities.

This fourth webinar in the Career Pathways series showcases strategies from Virginia’s CPID project, focusing on the use of hands-on assessments in career pathways and introducing the Lean Accessibility Program as a model for engaging businesses to expand hiring opportunities for individuals with disabilities.