NCRTM Library

The MN RETAIN Program developed a dashboard to track, monitor, and evaluate employment outcomes in real time. It provides insights into employment status, industry classifications for RETAIN enrollments, and key performance metrics. The dashboard enables stakeholders across multiple organizations to access timely data, monitor trends, assess program impact, and support data-driven decisions.

This is a flyer that MN RETAIN developed as a promotional item and referral tool. These flyers are present whenever MN RETAIN is at a community event, giving a presentation, and are given to project Employer Champions as a resource for their outreach. 

This article highlights Hope Kircher, a graduate of the Munroe-Meyer Institute’s Trailblazers program, and her success in a part-time position at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. It describes how workplace training, individualized support, and an employer partnership helped her build skills, gain independence, and find a job that matches her strengths and interests.

The Assistive Soft Skills and Employment Training (ASSET) curriculum is a 15-session program designed to help youth and young adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities build workplace and interpersonal skills.

This evaluation brief summarizes feedback from businesses participating in Nebraska Vocational Rehabilitation’s Career Pathways Advancement Project (CPAP) 2.0. It highlights employers’ experiences with the services they received, their satisfaction with those services, and their perceptions of how the program supports employees with disabilities in advancing their careers. 

The following is a sampling of resources available in the NCRTM that are focused on Navigating Employment Challenges Beyond Disability that are developed by Rehabilitation Services Administration (RSA) discretionary grantees, State VR agencies, and Federal Partners.

This brochure from Blind Institute of Technology describes tuition-free, accessible training and apprenticeship pathways in high-demand technology careers for professionals with disabilities. It outlines how participants can build skills, gain paid experience, and work with vocational rehabilitation counselors to pursue long-term employment in the tech field.

This web resource highlights how Blind Institute of Technology, the U.S. Department of Labor Office of Apprenticeship, and Safal Partners are using Registered Apprenticeship to create career pathways for individuals with disabilities.

This resource is a career video library featuring professionals in STEMM who share their career pathways, challenges, lessons learned, and strategies for success. It is designed to help viewers reflect on self-advocacy, accommodations, communication, support networks, and ways to apply these strategies to their own career journey.

This flyer explains that Michigan Rehabilitation Services offers virtual reality headsets to help individuals explore careers across several fields, including health sciences, IT, manufacturing, finance, transportation, and STEM. It encourages participants to talk with their counselor to learn more about using VR as part of career exploration.