The Association for Rehabilitation Research, Policy and Education (ARRPE) is offering two preconference workshop sessions prior to the National Symposium on Quality Employment 2025 in Madison, Wisconsin. The workshops are designed to provide hands on training and resources to rehabilitation professionals that can be applied directly to rehabilitation practice.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Memorial Union
800 Langdon St., Madison, WI 53706
Continuing education credits from CRCC will be available to all attendees. The cost to attend is $50 per session and $75 for both sessions.
9 a.m.-12 p.m. | A Trauma Informed Approach to Working with Justice Involved Individuals with Disabilities to Increase Employment Outcomes
Deirdre O’Sullivan Ph.D., The Pennsylvania State University
This session introduces a toolkit that practitioners and researchers can use to address trauma with the goal of increasing career development and employment outcomes.
1-2 p.m. | Survey Says: These are the Top-rated Ethical Issues to Discuss with Your Students for 2025 On
Xiaolei Tang, Ph.D., CRC, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Stuart Rumrill, Ph.D., LPC, CRC, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
During this session, presenters will provide a brief background on ethics in rehabilitation counseling and provide the results of an open-ended survey completed by rehabilitation professionals who were asked to provide what they believe are currently the most salient and emerging ethical issues that students in rehabilitation counseling programs need to understand and provide classroom strategies and examples on how to present and discuss these issues with students.
2- 5 p.m. | Applying an Evidence Supported Model to Vocational Earning Capacity Assessment
David R. Strauser, Ph.D., University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
This session will focus on forensic vocational analysis and provide hands on training on how to apply the Illinois Work and Well-Being Model to evaluate vocational loss of earnings. Case studies will be utilized to provide attendees with hands on experience applying the model to forensic vocational analysis.