VA Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment: Better Incentives, Workforce Planning, and Performance Reporting Could Improve Program

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Article Publication Date: 
1/12/2009
Summary: 
In 2004, a task force reviewed Veterans Affairs’ Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment (VRE) program and recommended focusing on employment through a Five-Track service delivery model and increasing program capacity. Here, the GAO looks at how employment has been impacted, the extent to which steps have been taken to improve capacity, and how program outcomes are reported. The authors recommended adjusting financial incentives and to improve strategic planning and transparency of reporting.
Article Author: 
Bertonia, Daniel; Stenersen, Stan; van Gelder, Kate; Bernstein, Susan; Hartman Cutts, Julianne; Milam, Brittni
Topics: 
Employment Programs; Quality
Types/Tools: 
Data; Policy alerts, briefs, letters & papers; Reports
Populations: 
N/A
Sources: 
Government Accountability Office; GAO
Programs/Initiatives: 
N/A
States: 
All States/Territories
Keywords: 
Community Inclusion
veterans; VR; Five-Track; self-employment; compensated work therapy; CWT; VR&E

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Daniel Bertoni
Government Accountability Office: Education, Workforce, and Income Security
bertonid@gao.gov
Phone: 
202-512-7215

Short URL: http://www.advancingstates.org/node/51939