Research and Training Center on Rural Rehabilitation Services

Misson and activities:

We are funded by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research to improve the ability of people with disabilities to work and live independently in rural areas.

Our organization works at the national level.

Our organization is to some degree run, controlled and represented by disabled people.

We have expertise, or are interested in cooperating with other organizations, in the areas of:

Accessible public transportation.
Coalition building and networking.
Employment.
Legislation.
Research.
Self-advocacy.
Women and disability.
Health promotion and secondary conditions prevention.
Rural Economic Development.
Rural Civic Leadership and people with disabilities.
American Indians with disabilities.
Rural managed health care and people with disabilities.
Health promotion activities and prevention of secondary conditions.
Training Vocational Rehabilitation counselors to help rural consumers become self-employed.
Rural managed health care and people with disabilities.
Rural accessible housing.
American Indians with disabilities.
Rural economic development.

Our positions are accessible for people with disabilities

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This entry added: Thursday 11th March 1999. (record #140) Changed: Tuesday 22nd March 2005. Link checked Tuesday 3rd December 2024.