The unemployment rate in the United States for people who have suffered traumatic brain injury (TBI) was around 60 percent for 2001-10, compared to a national average of around 7 percent.

Programs for adults who have suffered traumatic brain injury may improve employment status. All programs lead to employment, although no single program was more effective than the other programs.

Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Evidence-based Practice in Vocational Rehabilitation Symposium (Madison, WI), The Center on Knowledge Translation for Employment Research (KTER Center) in the context of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA). May 19, 2016.

This technical brief presents the findings and implications for Employment Interventions for Return to Work in Working Aged Adults Following Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI): A Systematic Review, submitted to The Campbell Collaboration in January 2015. It is co-authored by Carolyn W. Graham, Michael D. West, Jessica Bourdon, and Katherine Inge of Virginia Commonwealth University.

NARRTC Conference (Alexandria, VA) - Symposium: NIDILRR Employee Grantees' Strategies for Outreach to Business: Strategies to Inform the Design of Knowledge Translation, May 6, 2016.

In 2016, the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR) funded three Projects for Translating the Findings and Products of Disability and Rehabilitation Research and Development into Practice to promote the use or adoption of findings from NIDILRR-sponsored research or development projects.

This technical brief presents the findings and implications for Behavioral, Psychological, Educational and Vocational Interventions to Facilitate Employment Outcomes for Cancer Survivors: A Systematic Review. Published in The Campbell Library in January 2015, the review was co-authored by Carlton J. Fong, Kathleen M. Murphy, John D. Westbrook and Minda M. Markle.

Presented on June 24th, 2015 at the Interagency Committee on Disability Research: Disability and Employment Symposium.

BACKGROUND

In the United States, an estimated 1.5 million people are diagnosed annually with some type of cancer (American Cancer Society, 2011). Work is an important stabilizing factor for cancer survivors (Arnold, 1999).

The Knowledge Translation for Employment Research Center at SEDL and its partner, Virginia Commonwealth University, conducted an online survey of staff in state vocational rehabilitation agencies regarding their knowledge and use of evidence-based practice (EBP).

The web-based conference, "State of the Science: Knowledge Translation for Employment Research," took place September 16-17, 2014 to address employment research for people with disabilities and the best ways to get research results into use.