Linking Process and Outcome Measures to Improve Employment Support Programs for Individuals With the Most Significant Disabilities
Employment agencies and funding systems commonly use distal outcome measures such as employed or not employed, full-time or part-time, and continuous measures such as wage, hours worked, and type of job to document the employment status of individuals with disabilities. These measures continue to de...
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| description | Employment agencies and funding systems commonly use distal outcome measures such as employed or not employed, full-time or part-time, and continuous measures such as wage, hours worked, and type of job to document the employment status of individuals with disabilities. These measures continue to demonstrate that individuals with disabilities fall behind individuals without disabilities in all employment outcomes. While there is utility in distal outcome measures, it is difficult to determine what intervention or program variables were responsible for a specific outcome. Moreover, outcome measures do not provide sufficient information about the quality of employment supports and services an individual with disabilities receives. One way to improve accountability in employment support programs is to link outcomes to specific processes for obtaining and maintaining employment. The purpose of this manuscript is to describe how employment programs can link short-term (proximal) and long term (distal) outcomes measures to specific processes for employment. A customized employment framework is used to illustrate how systematically linking outcomes and processes improves accountability in programs that support job seekers with most significant disabilities. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-a4ec318afc9548feb9443fa2b9146b742023-01-03T06:51:14ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Rehabilitation Sciences2673-68612022-05-01310.3389/fresc.2022.873568873568Linking Process and Outcome Measures to Improve Employment Support Programs for Individuals With the Most Significant DisabilitiesTim RiesenCorban RemundAubrey SnyderEmployment agencies and funding systems commonly use distal outcome measures such as employed or not employed, full-time or part-time, and continuous measures such as wage, hours worked, and type of job to document the employment status of individuals with disabilities. These measures continue to demonstrate that individuals with disabilities fall behind individuals without disabilities in all employment outcomes. While there is utility in distal outcome measures, it is difficult to determine what intervention or program variables were responsible for a specific outcome. Moreover, outcome measures do not provide sufficient information about the quality of employment supports and services an individual with disabilities receives. One way to improve accountability in employment support programs is to link outcomes to specific processes for obtaining and maintaining employment. The purpose of this manuscript is to describe how employment programs can link short-term (proximal) and long term (distal) outcomes measures to specific processes for employment. A customized employment framework is used to illustrate how systematically linking outcomes and processes improves accountability in programs that support job seekers with most significant disabilities.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fresc.2022.873568/fullcompetitive integrated employmentmost significant disabilitiesprocess measuresoutcome measuresaccountability |
| spellingShingle | Tim Riesen Corban Remund Aubrey Snyder Linking Process and Outcome Measures to Improve Employment Support Programs for Individuals With the Most Significant Disabilities Frontiers in Rehabilitation Sciences competitive integrated employment most significant disabilities process measures outcome measures accountability |
| title | Linking Process and Outcome Measures to Improve Employment Support Programs for Individuals With the Most Significant Disabilities |
| title_full | Linking Process and Outcome Measures to Improve Employment Support Programs for Individuals With the Most Significant Disabilities |
| title_fullStr | Linking Process and Outcome Measures to Improve Employment Support Programs for Individuals With the Most Significant Disabilities |
| title_full_unstemmed | Linking Process and Outcome Measures to Improve Employment Support Programs for Individuals With the Most Significant Disabilities |
| title_short | Linking Process and Outcome Measures to Improve Employment Support Programs for Individuals With the Most Significant Disabilities |
| title_sort | linking process and outcome measures to improve employment support programs for individuals with the most significant disabilities |
| topic | competitive integrated employment most significant disabilities process measures outcome measures accountability |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fresc.2022.873568/full |
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