For the last six years, the American Indian Vocational Rehabilitation Training and Technical Assistance Center (AIVRTTAC) has played a vital role in supporting vocational rehabilitation personnel who help American Indians with disabilities obtain gainful and fulfilling employment. Now, thanks to another five-million-dollar, five-year cooperative agreement awarded by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, this important work can continue. As a collaboration between the Institute for Human Development (IHD) and the Northwest Indian College Tribal Vocational Rehabilitation (NWIC-TVR) Institute, AIVRTTAC will be able to build on its earlier success in providing culturally responsive education, guidance, training, and technical assistance to the 86 American Indian vocational rehabilitation (VR) projects across the country.
