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Rural Fact Sheets

"Disability" Defined
Grant Writing Tips
Native American Business Development Resources
Paychecks And SSI Benefits
SSA Work Incentives 2009
SSI And SSDI: Similarities And Differences
Changes In SSI and SSDI For 2009
Identifying Students Eligible For SSI PASS Plans at IEP Meetings
SGA & TWP (Substantial Gainful Activity and Trial Work Period)
SSI & Children Turning 18
SSI Benefits & Children With Disabilites
Weighing The Risks: Some Tools for Benefits Analysis & Planning for SSI & SSDI Recipients
Property Essential for Self-Support (PESS): A Self-Employment Resource that SSI Doesn’t Count


Rural Exchange (Vol. 17 Number 3 2004)
Montana Choice

Customized Employment Project
Pioneering the Electronic Frontier
Montana Choice: the Local Perspective
Got a Goal, Do it
Pursue Your Dream
Never Stop Chasing Your Dreams


Rural Exchange (Vol. 17 Number 2 2004)
Making All the Right Moves

Great Tips & Techniques for Strategic Planning
Liberating Ourselves by Learning
Resolving Conflict with Negotiation


Rural Exchange (Vol. 17 Number 1 2004)
Ticket To Work

Great Opportunities & Room for Improvement
To Be, or Not to Be?


Rural Exchange (Vol. 15 Number 3, 2002 & Vol. 16 Number 2, 2003)
Organizational Development

The Contradictions Of Leadership
The Peer Approach to IL Technical Assistance
The Rural Independent Living Leadership Mentoring Initiative (RILLMI)
Board Development & Recruitment Strategy
Managing The Space Between
Q&A On Staff Retention
Abundant Communication
Training For CIL's
The Texans Are Coming!!
Mentoring in Times of Transition
An RRCEP with its Heart in IL


Rural Exchange (Vol. 15 Number 2, 2002 & Vol. 16 Number 1, 2003)
Self-Employment

Assistance not Assessment
Don't Hurt with Your Help!-Why Benefits Analysis is Critical!
Growing Customers
From Client To Vendor
Self-Employment Project For People With Traumatic Brain Injury
Success through the RESEED Project
Traditional Self-Employment: Process Created from RESEED Grant
Meeting the Challenges & Seizing the Opportunities in Indian Country


Rural Exchange (Vol. 15 Number 1, 2002)
Workforce Investment

Montana’s Diverse Abilities Project:Training for One-Stop Employment Providers

Job Analysis: Key to Job Retention
Considerations for Customers with Disabilities in the WIA System
Benefits & Resources: A Quick Overview
Job Carving: Finding Goodness of Fit


Rural Exchange (Vol. 14 Number 2, 2002)
Independent Living

Put Me In Coach, I'm Ready to Play
If You Can't Lick 'Em, Join 'Em
Tips from the Field
Geographical Diversity
Leadership Mentoring for CILs: RILLMI


Rural Exchange (Vol. 13 Number 1, 2000 & Vol. 12 Number 2, 1999)
Social Security

"Getting Ready" for Social Security's Ticket to Work
Rural Independent Living Leadership Mentoring Initiative
PASS Plans Turn Student Dreams Into Reality
Best Practice: Systematic Instruction
Rural Institute Training Department Receives Self-Employment Funding
Changes in the Training Department/WISER Demonstration Project Funded
Quick & Easy
Supporting Entrepreneurs with Disabilities: Vital Characteristics for Rehabilitation Personnel


Rural Exchange (Vol. 11 Number 1, 1998)
Supported Employment

Employment for Anyone, Anywhere, Anytime: Creating New Employment Options Through Supported Employment
Rural Institute Member National Supported Employment Consortium: A National Project to Identify Exemplary Practices
President Establishes Task Force on Employment of People with Disabilities
New Staff Joins Institute Employment Projects
Rural Supported Employment
Who's on First or Rural Rules
It Just Didn't Feel Right
Beyond Assistive Technology Technological Resources in Supported Employment
The Job Match: Maximizing Outcomes With Consumers With Mental Illness


Monographs
Employment and Self Employment Strategies and Success Stories

Bringing Home the Bacon
Future Designs
Mission Possible
Knowing The Ropes
People Who Own Themselves
No Lone Wolves
Partnership
Innovations in Rural Rehabilitation
Six Steps To Self-Employment Success


Employment/Work Incentives

Vision Magazine Article


Other

Alternatives To Guardianship
Poverty and Disability
PDF Version - 12th edition - It Doesn't Take a Rocket Scientist to Understand & Use Social Security Work Incentives (280k)
Text Only (Accessible Version) - It Doesn't Take a Rocket Scientist to Understand & Use Social Security Work Incentives
PDF Version - Don't Look for Logic: An Advocates Manual for Negotiating the SSI/SSDI System (710k)
Text Only (Accessible Version) - Don't Look for Logic: An Advocates Manual for Negotiating the SSI/SSDI System





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