New on-demand training! 💼 Learn about key resources, actionable steps, and practical strategies to navigate transforming from subminimum wage to competitive integrated employment services. Register today 👉 ow.ly/Gc3c50Vbgf0

Communities can build capacity for summer employment by engaging teachers, students, parents, businesses and other community members in activities that resolve existing barriers. View Illinois Center for Transition and Work's Building Capacity for Summer Employment fact sheet ▶️ ictw.illinois.edu/docs/libraries…

#WhatTheResearchSays: Recent research shows a correlation between the length of time it takes to complete an eligibility determination or an individualized plan for employment and a client's successful employment outcome. Learn about rapid engagement ▶️ tacqe.com/rapid-engageme…

#ICYMI: The Association for Individual Development and ctfillinois provided agency updates and staff from Human Support Services shared a customer profile on a SWTCIE Illinois participant working at schnuckmarkets at the April 2025 COP. ⤵️ youtube.com/watch?v=rpYnLi…

#ICYMI: Check out the #ThinkWorks' Agency Change Toolkit and learn more about the 10 elements of successful organizational transformation to competitive integrated employment ▶️ act.thinkwork.org #SWTCIEIllinois 🔸 #Innovation 🔹 #ChangeManagement🔸 #TransitionTuesday

The Evaluation Team conducted interviews with project vocational rehabilitation (VR) counselors to gather data related to the overall role of VR counselor within the project. Read the April 2025 SIEDUB, The Role of the SWTCIE Illinois VR Counselor ▶️ blogs.illinois.edu/view/9299/1860…

ICYMI: Learn about the common barriers agencies face when transitioning from subminimum wage certificates to competitive integrated services and solutions to overcome them to ensure a smooth and effective transition in QE: Technical Assistance for Quality Employment 's webinar ▶️ tacqe.com/trainings/subm…

#GetTheFacts 🔍: A recent study examined the outcomes of customized employment using the Rehabilitation Services Administration Case Service Report (RSA-911) from 2017 through 2020. View the key findings from this study ▶️ swtcieillinois.ahs.illinois.edu/files/2023/10/…

May the day be full of reflection and appreciation - and inspire us to live with gratitude and compassion. The Illinois Institute for Rehabilitation and Employment Research is closed today, 5/26, in observance of Memorial Day. We will resume operations on 5/27, at 8 a.m.

Learn 12 key principles for helping youth with significant disabilities to obtain employment in the Illinois Center for Transition and Work's Guiding Principles for Promoting Youth Employment webinar ⤵️ youtu.be/Cn2BgbuqXvw?si…

In Fall 2024, the SWTCIE Illinois Evaluation Team conducted a survey of the competitive integrated employment (CIE) employers who had hired SWTCIE Illinois participants. View their findings in the latest SIEDUB, ▶️ blogs.illinois.edu/view/9299/1016…

“I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.” ― Angela Davis The Illinois IRER is closed today, June 19, in observance of the Juneteenth holiday. We will reopen tomorrow, June 20, at 8 a.m. #LetFreedomRing