This is happening!!! Marianne Cloeren, MD, MPH, FACOEM, FACP Associate Professor Division of Occupational & Environmental Medicine University of Maryland School of Medicine 11 S Paca St., Suite 200 Ba

Washington has received its award notice.

We were just notified of the award to MN. Congrats to Ohio, Washington, Kansas, California, Vermont. Connecticut and Kentucky! We are thrilled! Jane Ryan Return to Work Recovery and Claims Services PB

The ODEP website about RETAIN still says two out of the three pending types of awards (the expected 8 states and a single technical assistance contractor) will be announced before September 30 – and J

Ohio received our notice of award for the RETAIN grant late yesterday. Tom Hutter, Project Manager Ohio Dept. of Job and Family Services Office of Workforce Development P.O. Box 1618 Columbus, OH 4321

Hello, all -- Just in case your state is selected to participate in RETAIN, this new study from Washington state (attached) confirms that the QUICK AND SIMPLE interventions that make up the COHE progr

Dear Dr. Talmage – and all RETAINers See the articles you requested, attached. Luckily, I’ve been squirreling away stuff on COHE since they first started the thing. BUT my file names don’t necessarily

To my knowledge, this article (attached and text pasted below) is the first public media story about RETAIN. It appeared in a workers’ compensation e-newsletter called WorkCompCentral. Thanks to Peter

Go to ODEP’s SAW/RTW webpage for News & Events. The text of the RFP for Technical Assistance is there. https://www.dol.gov/odep/topics/SAW-RTW/news-events.htm Now all you/we have to do is find a compa

FYI, see below. This RFP is actually a “task order.” It is only visible to organizations that already have a “GSA schedule” – which means they are pre-contracted with the Government and are now biddin

SAW/RTW interventions that reduce work disability for workers with mental health problems has been viewed by many as uncharted territory. A new systematic review and meta-analysis of the evidence conc

The RFP for Technical Assistance to RETAIN is now available -- but it is NOT AVAILABLE to everyone. The RFP is accessible ONLY to organizations that ALREADY HAVE A PRE-EXISTING CONTRACT to provide ser

You may have already figured this out, but one group asked me to think with them about two parts of the proposal: (1) Project Logic Model to illustrate Theory of Change and (2) Organizational Chart. H

Hello, I work in Occupational Health in MN/ND. I am interested in getting more people back to the work force safely. Very interested in this program and whatever I can do to help. #MN #ND Thanks! Mega

Dear Retainers, I am a certified occupational health nurse specialist that has been in Occupational Health x 39 years. I would love to work with the Texas group. We have both Workers’ Comp and Non-Sub

A request for assistance finding some occupational medicine physicians (or other occupational health professionals with expertise in the SAW/RTW process) came into ACOEM from the FL Dept of Economic O

One way to look at RETAIN is as a beginning – of a long-term effort to START establishing accountability within government and to a lesser extent within other sectors of the economy for preventing nee

See email from the Feds below! Your input has made a concrete difference -- two more weeks to get your proposals written and submitted! And this IS a confirmation that the Feds are listening and tryin

Hello all Dr. Tom Winters and I are interested in assisting for MA Karin Sullivan Executive Director Occupational and Environmental Health Network, P.C. 5 Mount Royal Avenue # 50 Marlborough MA 01752

Attached is a list of the state agencies that appear most likely to be taking the lead in a RETAIN proposal. For each one on the list, there is a link that gets you to their website. For many, there a