Vocational Rehabilitation Division

The Vocational Rehabilitation Division works to promote employment for people with disabilities. The Division seeks to influence vocational rehabilitation policy design and implementation while addressing the local, state and economic forces present in the environment. Throughout its work, the Division will be mindful of not only the issues involving individuals with disabilities, but those of staff and other partners involved in providing quality vocational rehabilitation services.

Activities in the Division will include but are not limited to:

Influencing legislation and government policy at both state and federal levels;
Representation on all decision making councils under NYSRA or to their respective state agency;
Researching, designing, and proposing future policy and service designs in vocational rehabilitation; and
Assisting NYSRA members collectively in negotiating new vocational rehabilitation services.

The NYSRA Vocational Rehabilitation Division conducts its business through its committees and national allied groups such as I-NABIR and ACCSES. The Committees of NYSRA's Vocational Rehabilitation Division are:

Employment Options
Partnerships for Youth in Transition