Mathematica Issues Three New Reports on Transition Strategies for Youth with Disabilities

Mathematica shared three reports to help further understand employment barriers facing youth with disabilities and how transition programs can help them, along with identifying which services show the most promise. The reports are:

• Potential Strategies to Improve the Employment Outcomes of Youth SSI Recipients, which identifies strategies to “promote sustained, gainful employment.”
• State Vocational Rehabilitation Agencies’ Early Implementation Experiences with Pre-Employment Transition Services, which “presents state implementation experiences with a new mandate from the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act.”
• The Relationship Between Youth Services and Adult Outcomes Among Former Child SSI Recipients, which suggests that “that vocational rehabilitation services were associated with improved long-term employment and economic independence, though confounding factors might contribute to the observed relationship.”

As stated by Mathematica: “Each of these reports are part of larger projects that seek to investigate effective transition practices for youth with disabilities.”