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1. Center for Enhancing Activity and Participation among Persons with Arthritis (ENACT)
   ENACT is the Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Arthritis. Based at Boston University, the center collaborates with The Arthritis Foundation's New England Chapter and students and researchers from Boston University's School of Medine, School of Public Health, and School of Communications to enhance lives of persons with arthritis and other rheumatic conditions through research, community education programs, and training. ENACT is funded by National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR). [More Information on Center for Enhancing Activity and Participation among Persons with Arthritis (ENACT) ]
   
   
2. Consortium for Children and Youth with Disabilities and Special Health Care Needs
   This consortium has been formed to establish the National Rehabilitation Research and Training Center for Children with Disabilities and Special Health Care Needs (NRRTC). It is an exciting partnership among four entities that each have been concerned with improving the system of care for children and youth and have brought a special expertise to the partnership. A shared set of values regarding the importance of a family-centered, culturally competent approach underlies the work of all of the partners. [More Information on Consortium for Children and Youth with Disabilities and Special Health Care Needs]
   
   
3. Disability Statistics Center, University of California/San Francisco
   The Disability Statistics Center produces and disseminates policy-relevant statistical information on the demographics and status of people with disabilities in U.S. society. The Center's work focuses on how that status is changing over time with regard to employment, access to technology, health care, community-based services, and other aspects of independent living and participation in society. The Center is based at the Institute for Health and Aging at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). It receives funding from the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR) as an RRTC. [More Information on Disability Statistics Center, University of California/San Francisco]
   
   
4. Multiple Sclerosis Rehabilitation Research and Training Center
   "This Center promotes health and wellness of people with multiple sclerosis (MS) and improves their functioning and employment status. Fundamental to the project is a health survey administered to people with MS throughout the Northwest region." [More Information on Multiple Sclerosis Rehabilitation Research and Training Center]
   
   
5. Rehabilitation Research and Training Center - National Center for the Study of Postsecondary Supports
   The Center conducts research on educational supports to increase access to postsecondary education programs and improve outcomes for people with disabilities. [More Information on Rehabilitation Research and Training Center - National Center for the Study of Postsecondary Supports]
   
   
6. Rehabilitation Research and Training Center for Children's Mental Health
   The Research and Training Center for Developing and Implementing Integrated Systems of Care for Child and Adolescent Mental Health is an integrated set of research projects designed, in the short run, to enhance knowledge about effective implementation of systems of care, and, in the long run to make it possible for children with serious emotional disturbances to live, learn, work, and thrive in their own communities. The Center has developed a theory of factors that contribute to effective implementation; within that theory is a strong emphasis on the importance of understanding from a systemic perspective the interrelationship between the different factors, and their relationship to the community culture and context in which a service delivery system exists. The Center has a set of six interconnected research projects that use both quantitative and qualitative methods, and are holistic in their focus, to further test and develop its theory. [More Information on Rehabilitation Research and Training Center for Children's Mental Health]
   
   
7. Rehabilitation Research and Training Center for Economic Research on Employment Policy for Persons with Disabilities
   Using principles of economics, the Disability Employment Policy RRTC conducts policy research on how environmental factors influence the work outcomes of people with disabilities. Research also addresses critical aspects of employment outcomes, recognizing the heterogeneity of people with disabilities, and explains the importance of interactions among the multiplicity of programs intended to meet the employment needs of people with disabilities. [More Information on Rehabilitation Research and Training Center for Economic Research on Employment Policy for Persons with Disabilities]
   
   
8. Rehabilitation Research and Training Center for People who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing
   The Arkansas RRTC for Persons who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing (RT-31) conducts research and training designed to enhance the rehabilitation outcomes of persons who are deaf or hard of hearing. RT-31 provides training and technical assistance to state agencies, community-based programs, and consumers. Center faculty also maintain a continuing involvement in the preservice training of rehabilitation graduate students by overseeing two Masters of Science programs, supported by the Rehabilitation Services Administration (RSA). These two long-term training projects are designed to prepare graduates with knowledge and expertise in the provision of vocational rehabilitation/independent living skills training with deaf and hard of hearing persons. [More Information on Rehabilitation Research and Training Center for People who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing]
   
   
9. Rehabilitation Research and Training Center for Personal Assistance Services
   This project provides research, training, dissemination, and technical assistance on issues of personal assistance services (PAS) in the United States. Center projects focus on: (1) the relationship between formal and informal PAS and caregiving support, and the role of AT in complementing PAS; (2) policies and programs, barriers, and new models for PAS in the home and community; (3) workforce development, recruitment, retention, and benefits; and (4) workplace PAS models that eliminate barriers to formal and informal PAS and AT at work. [More Information on Rehabilitation Research and Training Center for Personal Assistance Services]
   
   
10. Rehabilitation Research and Training Center for Recovery and Recovery-Oriented Psychiatric Rehabilitation for Persons with Long-Term Mental Illness
    The Center is a research, training, and service organization dedicated to improving the lives of persons who have psychiatric disabilities. The mission of this RRTC is to develop and evaluate new knowledge, and based on that new knowledge, to effect changes in the field of psychiatric rehabilitation so that services and systems can be designed to respond to our understanding of the concepts and dimensions of, barriers to, and facilitators of recovery. [More Information on Rehabilitation Research and Training Center for Recovery and Recovery-Oriented Psychiatric Rehabilitation for Persons with Long-Term Mental Illness]
    
    
11. Rehabilitation Research and Training Center in Neuromuscular Diseases
    This project conducts research designed to enhance the quality of life of people with neuromuscular diseases. Through multidisciplinary research and a comprehensive program of training and information services, the Center serves consumers, physicians, and health care workers. [More Information on Rehabilitation Research and Training Center in Neuromuscular Diseases]
    
    
12. Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Access to Rehabilitation and Empowerment Opportunities for Minority Persons with Disabilities
    "The Howard University Research and Training Center for Access to Rehabilitation and Empowerment Opportunity (HURTC) is implementing a RRTC on Access to Rehabilitation and Empowerment Opportunities for Minority Persons with Disabilities to help them achieve self-determination, economic independence, and full participation in American life." [More Information on Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Access to Rehabilitation and Empowerment Opportunities for Minority Persons with Disabilities]
    
    
13. Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Aging with Developmental Disabilities
    The RRTCADD promotes the successful aging of adults with intellectual (mental retardation) and developmental disabilities (I/DD) in response to physical, cognitive, and environmental changes. Its coordinated research, training, and dissemination activities promote progressive policies and supports to maintain health and function, self-determination, independence, and active engagement in life. The RRTCADD is a national resource for researchers, people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, their families, service providers, policy makers, advocacy groups, students, and the general community. [More Information on Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Aging with Developmental Disabilities]
    
    
14. Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Blindness and Low Vision
    The RRTC's mission is to enhance employment and independent living outcomes for individuals who are blind or visually impaired through research, training, education, and dissemination. Its activities and other information are available on the site. The RRTC is supported by a grant from NIDRR to the Mississippi State University. [More Information on Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Blindness and Low Vision]
    
    
15. Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Community Integration of Individuals with Psychiatric Disabilities
    The goal of this Center is to insure that people with psychiatric disabilities not only move from institutional care to more integrated settings but also are free to choose to participate in a wide range of roles in their communities. The Center's five year mission focuses on three core areas: (1) Factors Associated with Community Integration develops a coherent conceptual framework for community integration and identifies key factors, intervention models, and appropriate instrumentation and research methodologies; (2) Policies Associated with Community Integration identifies, develops, and assesses the effectiveness of a range of public policies and system strategies promoting community integration and engage key stakeholders in learning about and utilizing the Center's findings; and (3) Intervention Supports that Assist Community Integration identifies, develops, and assesses the effectiveness of support service interventions promoting community integration, and provides training, technical assistance, and dissemination based on those initiatives to change behaviors and practices of key stakeholders. [More Information on Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Community Integration of Individuals with Psychiatric Disabilities]
    
    
16. Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Community Integration of Persons with Traumatic Brain Injury
    The mission of the RRTC on Community Integration of Persons with Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) is (1) to increase access to information, resources, and services to those affected by Traumatic Brain Injury TBI, including traditionally under-served populations, that maximize participation in their communities and that treating professionals have the necessary information to meet the needs of persons with TBI; (2) to address all areas of community integration, including traditionally under-emphasized areas such as friendship, intimacy, and creative expression; (3) to reduce attitudinal barriers to community integration of persons with TBI; (4) to establish new types of partnerships, such as those with the larger disability community, in order to empower persons with TBI to have a voice in creating community services and networks to facilitate maximal community participation. [More Information on Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Community Integration of Persons with Traumatic Brain Injury]
    
    
17. Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Disability Demographics and Statistics
    The RRTC on Demographics and Statistics (Cornell StatsRRTC) bridges the divide between the sources of disability data and the users of disability statistics. The project conducts research exploring the reliability of existing data sources and collection methods, and studies the potential to improve current and future data collection efforts. In addition, the project utilizes existing data sources to provide a comprehensive and reliable set of statistics, increase access to and understanding of how statistics can be used effectively to support decision making. Cornell StatsRRTC works with key organizations to determine their needs and helps them maximize the use of disability statistics in their ongoing efforts to improve the lives of people with disabilities and their families. [More Information on Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Disability Demographics and Statistics]
    
    
18. Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Full Participation in Independent Living
    The RRTC conducts research on, identifies, and advances person-environment centered strategies that encourage full participation in society, among persons with disabilities representing diverse cultures, varying socioeconomic strata, and emerging disability populations. [More Information on Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Full Participation in Independent Living]
    
    
19. Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Health and Wellness
    This RRTC seeks to contribute to the reduction of health disparities for person with long-term disabilities through an integrated program of research, training, technical assistance, and dissemination. The Center address three intended priority research areas - (1) identify strategies to overcome barriers that impede access to routine healthcare for individuals with disabilities; (2) identify interventions in areas such as exercise, nutrition, pain management, or complementary and alternative therapies that promote health and wellness and minimize the occurrence of secondary conditions for persons with disabilities; and (3) develop improved status measurement tool(s) to assess health and well-being of individuals with disabilities regardless of functional ability. [More Information on Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Health and Wellness]
    
    
20. Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Improving Employment Outcomes
    This Employment Service Systems Research and Training Center develops, enhances, and utilizes partnerships to improve the quality of employment services, opportunities, and outcomes for people with disabilities. Five research projects have been designed to meet this goal and examine partnerships across public agencies, between not for-profit and public agencies, and between rehabilitation agencies and businesses. The Consortia for Employment Success (CES) creates and evaluates fully integrated disability service provider networks in three local communities. The Workplace Socialization Model (WPS), supplements the CES Model by focusing on job enhancement and retention. Identification of "Good Practices" Within Vocational Rehabilitation is designed to identify a variety of good practices currently being used in the State-Federal VR system across the U.S. that facilitate consumer access to services and enhance employment outcomes. Designing and Testing Comprehensive Employment Practice and Policy Initiatives within a Vocational Rehabilitation State Agency develops and tests a model that leads to enhanced employment outcomes. A Study of Disability Navigators in One-Stops, collects data on Workforce Investment Act regions in which Navigators operate and compares levels of customer satisfaction and employment outcomes between regions that use Navigators and regions that have no such positions. [More Information on Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Improving Employment Outcomes]
    
    
21. Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Independent Living Management
    To help Centers for Independent Living (CILs) become integrated more fully with their communities, this project identifies and applies best practices, finding examples from both inside and outside the CIL network. The work is conducted embracing, supporting, and emulating the principles of the independent living philosophy, which encompass consumer control, self-help, advocacy, peer relationships, peer role models, and empowerment. [More Information on Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Independent Living Management]
    
    
22. Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Measuring Rehabilitation Outcomes and Effectiveness
    The purpose of this RRTC is to provide national leadership on the functional assessment, outcomes, and health policy issues facing the medical rehabilitation community and the diverse consumers it seeks to serve. The Center conducts research; hosts forums for discussion; publishes in the rehabilitation, health policy, and consumer literature; trains researchers in rehabilitation-focused health services research; and disseminates information to diverse consumer, provider, and academic audiences. [More Information on Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Measuring Rehabilitation Outcomes and Effectiveness]
    
    
23. Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Policies Affecting Families of Children with Disabilities
    This center conducts research on the effects of the policies of governments, systems, networks, and agencies on the family quality of life and community integration (FQOL/FCI) of families who have children with developmental disabilities and emotional-behavioral disabilities or both. Researchers identify four target populations: families, providers, policy-leaders, and networks (all at the federal, state, and local levels). [More Information on Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Policies Affecting Families of Children with Disabilities]
    
    
24. Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Spinal Cord Injury: Promoting Health and Preventing Complications through Exercise
    This project systematically and comprehensively addresses the role and impact of physical activity in the prevention of secondary conditions in people with spinal cord injury (SCI). Initially, the project establishes critical, yet-undefined physiological responses to exercise in SCI and comprehensively examines cardiovascular disease risk in individuals with SCI applying accepted guidelines used in the able-bodied population. The project develops exercise formats specifically designed according to severity of SCI and chronicity of SCI to address the prevention of and knowledge regarding osteoporosis and other secondary conditions. In addition, the project determines whether regular exercise is related to fewer secondary conditions. [More Information on Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Spinal Cord Injury: Promoting Health and Preventing Complications through Exercise]
    
    
25. Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on State Systems and Employment
    This Center identifies effective practices in coordinated employment efforts and facilitates such development at local, regional, and state levels. It also influences policy, practice, and perceptions on the national level. Project activities include investigations, technical assistance, and public policy reviews. [More Information on Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on State Systems and Employment]
    
    
26. Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Substance Abuse, Disability, and Employment
    This RRTC builds on previous findings to positively impact persons with disabilities who also experience substance use disorders, as well as the service providers upon whom they depend. The highly integrated program of research addresses the following goals and objectives: (l) promote widespread use of substance use disorder screening among persons with disabilities who utilize disability-related employment services; (2) conduct a randomized clinical trial of a model of supported employment, Individualized Placement and Support (IPS), to test its efficacy among persons with traumatic brain injury or other severe disabilities that also have a substance use disorder; (3) research policy and practices relative to their impact on VR services for persons with a disability and coexisting substance abuse; and (4) investigate factors that specifically contribute to unsuccessful case closure among consumers of VR services. [More Information on Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Substance Abuse, Disability, and Employment]
    
    
27. Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Technology Promoting Integration for Stroke Survivors: Overcoming Social Barriers
    This project develops and evaluates a sequence of robotic training and assistive devices that are designed with the idea of promoting efficient function in the workplace or at home, and with the further intent that they form a basis for the development of appropriate technologies to allow people with disabilities ready access to existing facilities in the community. Other projects at this center include: the use of emotionally expressive and narrative writing to facilitate coping and adaptation after stroke, computerized training for conversational scripts that facilitate access to the community and work force, and a consumer-directed, dynamic assessment methodology for evaluating community living and work participation environments and technologies for use by people who have a stroke. [More Information on Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Technology Promoting Integration for Stroke Survivors: Overcoming Social Barriers]
    
    
28. Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Traumatic Brain Injury Interventions
    "The overall goal of the RRTC on TBI Interventions is to enhance the cognitive, physical, and emotional functioning of people with TBI. This goal will be accomplished through RRTC research activities that produce new knowledge. This knowledge will be translated by the RRTC into information useful for targeted audiences — through training, dissemination and technical assistance activities. The goal is the creation and adoption of innovative post-TBI interventions, improvement of community-based post-TBI treatment and services, and better research tools." [More Information on Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Traumatic Brain Injury Interventions]
    
    
29. Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Workforce Investment and Employment Policy for Persons with Disabilities
    This Center helps expand, improve, and modify disability policy and other more general policies in order to improve the employment status of Americans with disabilities and increase their independence and self-sufficiency. Based on research from this project and other NIDRR-funded projects, this project establishes an information and technical assistance resource to government leaders and decision makers at state and federal levels, individuals with disabilities, parents and family members, and other interested parties, offering new and revised approaches to workforce development and employment policy. [More Information on Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Workforce Investment and Employment Policy for Persons with Disabilities]
    
    
30. Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Workplace Supports and Job Retention
    This RRTC studies those supports which are most effective in the workplace for assisting persons with disabilities maintain employment and advance their careers. Research includes two long-term prospective randomized experimental control research projects: (1) determining the efficacy of public/private partnerships, and (2) determining the efficacy of business mentoring and career based interventions with college students with disabilities. The RRTC is partnered with Manpower, Inc., several community rehabilitation programs, and the VCU Business Roundtable. [More Information on Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Workplace Supports and Job Retention]
    
    
31. Rehabilitation Research and Training Center to Improve Services for Children with Serious Emotional and Behavioral Disabilities and Their Families
    This project conducts an integrated set of research, training, and technical assistance activities to study and promote effective, community-based, culturally competent, family-centered, individualized and strength-based services for children and youth with emotional or behavioral disorders and their families. Research issues include caregivers and employment, inclusive child care, early intervention, education and service planning, service delivery, training and mentoring. [More Information on Rehabilitation Research and Training Center to Improve Services for Children with Serious Emotional and Behavioral Disabilities and Their Families]
    
    
32. Research and Training Center on Disability in Rural Communities
    The research conducted by this project improves the employment status of people with disabilities in the rural U.S., enhances their ability to live independently, and advances the science of rural disability studies. Four core areas comprise eleven research projects in rural employment and economic development; rural health and disability; rural community transportation and independent living; and rural policy foundations. [More Information on Research and Training Center on Disability in Rural Communities]
    
    
33. Research and Training Center on Family Support and Children's Mental Health
    This project conducts research, training, and technical assistance activities to study and promote effective, community-based, culturally competent, family-centered, individualized and strength-based services for children and youth with emotional or behavioral disorders and their families. [More Information on Research and Training Center on Family Support and Children's Mental Health]
    
    
34. Research and Training Center on Independent Living
    The Research and Training Center on Independent Living (RTC/IL) is made up of a team committed to research and its use that enhances Independent Living for people with disabilities. RTC/IL uses a variety of research methods and designs, including policy analysis and empirical research, as well as qualitative, group, and single subject designs. The Center's research is used in a variety of ways, including training in the field, conference presentations, policy decision making, and useful products. [More Information on Research and Training Center on Independent Living]
    
    
35. Research and Training Center on Measurement and Interdependence in Community Living
    The Research and Training Center on Measurement and Interdependence in Community Living (RTC/MICL) is a consortium based at the University of Kansas. The other partners are Washington University in St. Louis, the University of Oregon, and the University of Montana. The Center's combined expertise has established us as key resources for journalists covering local, state, regional, and national issues related to disability, independent living, interdependence, community participation, and civil rights. [More Information on Research and Training Center on Measurement and Interdependence in Community Living]
    
    
36. Research Utilization Support and Help
    The RUSH project develops and tests models for increasing the effective use of the results of research funded by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR) of the U.S. Department of Education. The RUSH Project will assess utilization successes in terms of benefits produced for intended user audiences including: people with disabilities and their families, disability researchers, and disability service providers, among others. The goal is to expand awareness, strategies, and evaluation of knowledge utilization outcomes among NIDRR-supported researchers in order to increase access and use of research results by those who can benefit the most from them. [More Information on Research Utilization Support and Help]
    
    
37. UIC National Research and Training Center on Psychiatric Disability
    This Center conducts a series of research and training projects that focus on increasing self-determination for persons with psychiatric disabilities. The Center's current projects are composed of five core areas: (1) choices in treatment decision-making; (2) economic self-sufficiency; (3) consumer advocacy under managed care; (4) career development through real jobs for real wages; and (5) strengthening self-determination skills and self-advocacy. These core areas reaffirm that people with psychiatric disabilities have the right to maximal independence, which grows out of making choices in the decisions that affect their lives. [More Information on UIC National Research and Training Center on Psychiatric Disability]
    
    

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1. NARRTC 2012 Annual Conference
   April 26, 2012 to April 27, 2012 in Alexandria, Virginia, United States
   NARRTC (formerly known as the National Association of Rehabilitation Research and Training Centers) seeks improve the quality of life, independence of life choices, and the inclusion of individuals with disabilities and their families through relevant research, training, technical assistance, knowledge translation, development and demonstration activities. NARRTC members are current projects funded through the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR). The theme of the 2012 conference will be "Advancing and Sustaining Research in Disability and Rehabilitation." [More Information on NARRTC 2012 Annual Conference]
   
   
2. NARRTC 2005
   April 25, 2005 to April 26, 2005 in Washington, D.C., United States
   The theme of the 2005 annual national conference of the National Association of Rehabilitation Research and Training Centers is "New Directions." [More Information on NARRTC 2005]