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[Projects With Industry (PWI)]{.smallcaps}

Goal: To facilitate the establishment of partnerships between
rehabilitation service providers and business and industry in order to
create and expand employment and career advancement opportunities for
individuals with disabilities.

**Relationship of Program to Volume 1, Department-wide Objectives:**
These objectives support Strategic Plan Goal 3.4 ensuring access to
services that provide adults with disabilities the opportunity to
strengthen their skills and improve their earning power over their
lifetime.

FY 2000---\$22,071,000

FY 2001---\$22,071,000 (Requested budget)

Objective 1: Ensure that PWI services (through partnerships with
business and industry) result in competitive employment, increased
wages, and job retention for individuals with disabilities.

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| Pe |           |             | 1999 performance | Grantee          |
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| en |           |             | the 1999 target  | indicator data.  |
| ta |           |             | by 2 percent.    |                  |
| ge |           |             |                  | *Frequency:*     |
| of |           |             | **Explanation:** | Annually.        |
| i  |           |             | Although the     |                  |
| nd |           |             | program fell     | *Next Update:*   |
| iv |           |             | short of its     | January 2001.    |
| id |           |             | established FY   |                  |
| ua |           |             | 1999 performance | **Validation     |
| ls |           |             | target, FY 1999  | Procedure:** The |
| se |           |             | performance was  | sources and data |
| rv |           |             | higher than      | quality are      |
| ed |           |             | performance for  | validated by     |
| w  |           |             | FY 1998. In FY   | checking to see  |
| ho |           |             | 1998 and 1999,   | if the data are  |
| we |           |             | there were fewer | reasonable.      |
| re |           |             | grantees (104    | On-site          |
| pl |           |             | and 101,         | compliance       |
| ac |           |             | respectively)    | reviews are also |
| ed |           |             | compared with FY | conducted of at  |
| in |           |             | 1997 (119).      | least 15 percent |
| c  |           |             |                  | of grant         |
| om |           |             | The percentage   | recipients       |
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| ti |           |             | served who are   | determine        |
| ti |           |             | significantly    | whether the      |
| ve |           |             | disabled and the | grant is managed |
| e  |           |             | percentage of    | in accordance    |
| mp |           |             | previously       | with Federal     |
| lo |           |             | unemployed       | requirements;    |
| ym |           |             | persons have     | (b) identify     |
| en |           |             | increased. The   | areas where the  |
| t* |           |             | projects serving | project can be   |
|    |           |             | these            | improved; and    |
|    |           |             | populations face | (c) assess the   |
|    |           |             | greater          | project\'s       |
|    |           |             | challenges in    | mission as it    |
|    |           |             | obtaining        | relates to the   |
|    |           |             | competitive      | Department\'s    |
|    |           |             | employment. The  | mission.         |
|    |           |             | FY 2000 target   |                  |
|    |           |             | has been         | **Limitation of  |
|    |           |             | adjusted to      | Data and Planned |
|    |           |             | reflect gradual  | Improvements:**  |
|    |           |             | improvement in   | The primary      |
|    |           |             | reaching the 62  | limitation of    |
|    |           |             | percent target.  | the data is that |
|    |           |             |                  | they are         |
|    |           |             |                  | self-reported.   |
|    |           |             |                  | Technical        |
|    |           |             |                  | assistance and   |
|    |           |             |                  | regular          |
|    |           |             |                  | monitoring is    |
|    |           |             |                  | provided to      |
|    |           |             |                  | grantees in      |
|    |           |             |                  | order to receive |
|    |           |             |                  | updated reports  |
|    |           |             |                  | from the grantee |
|    |           |             |                  | regarding        |
|    |           |             |                  | progress toward  |
|    |           |             |                  | meeting project  |
|    |           |             |                  | goals.           |
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| ar | ormance** | Targets**   |                  |                  |
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| FY | 59%       |             |                  |                  |
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| 99 | 11,300)\* |             |                  |                  |
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| FY | 49%       |             |                  |                  |
| 1  | (6,792)\* |             |                  |                  |
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| ve |           |             | 1999 performance | Grantee          |
| ra |           |             | exceeded the     | performance      |
| ge |           |             | 1999 target by   | indicator data.  |
| in |           |             | \$17.            |                  |
| cr |           |             |                  | *Frequency:*     |
| ea |           |             | **Explanation:** | Annually.        |
| se |           |             | FY 1999          |                  |
| in |           |             | performance      | *Next Update:*   |
| we |           |             | reflected an     | January 2001.    |
| ek |           |             | average increase |                  |
| ly |           |             | in earnings of   | **Validation     |
| e  |           |             | \$226 per week.  | Procedure:**     |
| ar |           |             | In FY 1999 there | Same as          |
| ni |           |             | were fewer       | Indicator 1.1.   |
| ng |           |             | grantees (101)   |                  |
| s* |           |             | than in the      | Limitation of    |
|    |           |             | baseline year of | Data and Planned |
|    |           |             | FY 1997 (119).   | Improvements:    |
|    |           |             | On average, the  | Same as          |
|    |           |             | FY 1999 group of | Indicator 1.1.   |
|    |           |             | grantees         | In addition,     |
|    |           |             | demonstrated     | performance data |
|    |           |             | higher           | on this          |
|    |           |             | performance on   | indicator are    |
|    |           |             | this indicator.  | further limited  |
|    |           |             | However, we have | because the      |
|    |           |             | only raised the  | national average |
|    |           |             | FY 2000 and FY   | is calculated    |
|    |           |             | 2001 targets to  | based on         |
|    |           |             | \$218 per week   | self-reported    |
|    |           |             | because of the   | project          |
|    |           |             | variability in   | averages.        |
|    |           |             | annual           |                  |
|    |           |             | performance.     |                  |
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| ar | ormance** | Targets**   |                  |                  |
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Objective 2: Ensure that PWI services are available for individuals with
the most need.

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| Pe |           |             | 1999 performance | Grantee          |
| rc |           |             | fell short of    | performance      |
| en |           |             | meeting the      | indicator data.  |
| ta |           |             | target by 4      |                  |
| ge |           |             | percent. Despite | *Frequency:*     |
| of |           |             | declines in      | Annually.        |
| pr |           |             | actual           |                  |
| ev |           |             | performance in   | *Next Update:*   |
| io |           |             | 1998 and 1999    | January 2001.    |
| us |           |             | from the 1997    |                  |
| ly |           |             | base year,       | **Validation     |
| un |           |             | progress toward  | Procedure:**     |
| em |           |             | the target is    | Same as          |
| pl |           |             | likely in 2000.  | Indicator 1.1.   |
| oy |           |             |                  |                  |
| ed |           |             | **Explanation:** | Limitation of    |
| i  |           |             | Although the FY  | Data and Planned |
| nd |           |             | 1999 target was  | Improvements:    |
| iv |           |             | not met, the     | Same as          |
| id |           |             | overall number   | Indicator 1.1.   |
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**[Key Strategies]{.smallcaps}**

[Strategies Continued from 1999]{.underline}

-   To address grantees\' difficulty or noncompliance with the placement
    standards and the wage standard defined in Projects With Industry
    regulations, the program will provide ongoing technical assistance
    to grantees who demonstrate difficulty or noncompliance with these
    standards, including monitoring progress through off-site monitoring
    and progress reports.

-   To address grantees\' difficulty in developing partnerships with
    business and with state vocational rehabilitation agencies, the
    program will provide, through national conferences and other means,
    opportunities for exemplary Projects With Industry projects to share
    information on methods and models for building strong partnerships
    with industry, and with state vocational rehabilitation agencies.
    These efforts will include dissemination of information on effective
    Business Advisory Councils, including representatives from labor and
    from the disability community.

# 

# New or Strengthened Strategies

##### To address grantees\' difficulty in placing previously unemployed individuals, the program will provide technical assistance to grantees that demonstrate poor performance in this regard.

##### To address grantees\' difficulty in placing previously unemployed individuals, the program will work with other Federal offices within and outside the Department to provide opportunities for grantees to identify and exchange information addressing work disincentives affecting previously unemployed individuals with disabilities.

##### To address grantees\' difficulty or noncompliance in meeting the targets for placement rate and percentage of individuals served who were unemployed for 6 months or more prior to program entry who are placed in competitive employment, the program will monitor progress of grantees who demonstrate difficulty or noncompliance with these standards through off-site monitoring and progress reports.

##### To identify strengths and weaknesses of the program and to better understand program performance, the Rehabilitation Services Administration is initiating an evaluation study of the Projects With Industry program in FY 2000.

**[How This Program Coordinates With Other Federal
Activities]{.smallcaps}**

-   To identify job and career availability within the community,
    Projects With Industry projects are required to coordinate with the
    local workforce investment board for the community under Section
    118(b)(1)(B) of the Workforce Investment Act of 1998.

-   To increase coordination between Projects With Industry and state
    vocational rehabilitation programs, the project's Business Advisory
    Council must include a representative of the appropriate state
    vocational rehabilitation program.

**[Challenges to Achieving Program Goal]{.smallcaps}**

##### Despite the advances brought about by the Americans With Disabilities Act and the Rehabilitation Act, developing partnerships with business still remains a challenge. Many employers remain reluctant to hire individuals with disabilities. Some employers are skeptical about their ability to do the job. Others persist in believing that hiring an individual with a disability is costly and a bad business risk.

**[Indicator Changes]{.smallcaps}**

##### **From FY 1999** **Annual Plan** **(two** **years old)**

[Adjusted]{.underline}---None.

[Dropped]{.underline}

-   Indicator 1.3 (job retention) was dropped. This indicator stated
    that "an indicator will be developed to assess the percentage of
    individuals who maintain employment 9 months after employment." As a
    result of changes made by the 1998 Amendments to the Rehabilitation,
    the implementing regulations have been amended to require that
    projects report the number of individuals who are employed at 3 and
    9 months after placement in competitive employment. Projects will
    begin reporting this data in FY 2000. After the Department
    establishes a performance baseline, an appropriate indicator will be
    established.

**From FY 2000** **Annual Plan (last year's)**

[Adjusted]{.underline}

-   The FY 2000 targets for Indicators 1.1 and 2.1 were adjusted to
    reflect gradual improvement in reaching the FY 2001 target.

-   The FY 2000 and 2001 targets for Indicator 1.2 have been raised to
    reflect increased performance in 1999.

[Dropped]{.underline}---None.

[New]{.underline}---None.