What a DELIGHT to hear that some of you are now starting to move into the program design and proposal writing phase! Here are some musings and some personal advice that I hope will help you think abou

This copy just opened fine for me just now. Sorry for any inconvenience if it didn’t open for you earlier. Jennifer On Wednesday, June 20, 2018, 2:20:55 PM EDT, Julie Ording <jording@...> wrote: I kee

In listening to the medical society representative on a RETAIN planning group today, I remembered how important it will be for the COHE-equivalent organizations set up by each RETAIN project to develo

The Department of Industrial Accidents (workers’ comp for MA) cannot serve as the lead agency in this grant because DIA does not have an internal infrastructure/personnel to write and manage federal g

See below. ODEP has now provided thoroughly considered responses to some questions that were posed but not definitively answered during the first teleconference. The questions concern: Whether VR and

See below. Make sure to be on the call and ask your questions! (Or listen as others ask them for you!) Cordially, Jennifer Christian, MD, MPH Moderator – RETAINers e-group for anyone interested in pla

The Secretaries’ Innovation Group had a conference yesterday with representatives from the state departments of workforce development and human services from roughly 20 states in the room. During thei

You can find them at: https://www.dol.gov/odep/topics/SAW-RTW/news-events.htm The answers to questions that they were not able to answer on the spot have still not been released. Cordially, Jennifer C

I have followed the COHE program since its inception in the early 2000’s. In the last few years, I have made two week-long trips to Washington State to study its current operations and learn its histo

In his June 7 column, Bob Wilson briefly described Washington State’s new “Vocational Recovery” project. In this model, VR’s are getting involved in cases of workers with experiencing work disruption