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Cover imageVocational Rehabilitation Rates Since 2000

Aftermath: To what degree is field office performance stable after the 2000 decline?

 

Summary

This report follows up on a previous study, “Examining Washington State’s Vocational Rehabilitation Rates: Why the Decline? A Study of Two Cohorts,” to test the stability of office performance since changes in the year 2000. Rehabilitation rates for clients beginning to receive DVR services in fiscal year 2004 are compared with those in 2002-03. This analysis was made possible in early 2007 since data was available to follow-up more resent clients for two and a half years, till December 2006. The consistent better-than-expected performance among nine offices suggests that there may be some systematic practices that generated these outcomes.


Major findings:

  • DVR clients in the 2004 cohort faced very much the same obstacles as other clients had in prior years. Three major factors continued to have negative impacts on the likelihood of rehabilitation: poor labor markets, more severe disabilities, and receiving SSI/SSDI economic assistance.
  • Good DVR office performance was stable over time; 70 percent of the offices that did better than expected in the 2002-03 cohort continued to do well in the 2004 cohort (9 out of 13).
  • Among the nine offices consistently doing better than expected, actual rehabilitation rates reached levels only seen before the year 2000 decline: 63 percent were successfully rehabilitated.

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