If you work in vocational rehabilitation, you've probably felt the strain: growing caseloads, staffing shortages, and not enough time to bring new people up to speed. These challenges within the vocational rehabilitation workforce are not new, but they are becoming harder to ignore.
Fewer people enter the rehabilitation counseling field each year. Recent policy changes have made it easier for agencies to hire from a wider range of professional backgrounds, which helps fill vacancies but creates a new challenge: many new staff need additional support and training in disability, rehabilitation, and employment services. But accessible, practice-focused training remains difficult for many agencies to find.
That's the problem StaffUp ASAP was built to solve.
Where CSAVR Comes In
The Council of State Administrators of Vocational Rehabilitation (CSAVR) partnered with StaffUp because they care about the people receiving these services and understand firsthand how workforce challenges affect service quality.
As the national organization representing state VR agency administrators, CSAVR brings deep relationships with public vocational rehabilitation agencies across the country. They help ensure StaffUp ASAP reflects what's actually happening in the field, not just what looks good on paper.
What That Looks Like in Practice
CSAVR connects StaffUp ASAP with VR agencies nationwide, promotes training opportunities through its national network, and helps spread lessons learned that can strengthen workforce development across states.
The goal is the same for everyone involved: better-prepared staff, stronger services, and better outcomes for the people you work with every day.