$22M federal grant goes to D-H group aiming to get people back to work after disability
Modified: 5/14/2021 9:27:57 PM
LEBANON A team of occupational medicine specialists at Dartmouth-Hitchcock is set to expand a project to help Vermonters get back to work through a four-year, $21.6 million federal grant, according to a news release from the Lebanon-based health system.
The funding from the U.S. Department of Labor to the Vermont Department of Labor will go to support the second phase of a project called Retaining Employment and Talent After Injury/Illness Network (RETAIN).
The effort is aimed at reducing Vermont’s rate of work disability one of the highest in the U.S. and also the rate of young people receiving Social Security disability benefits the second-highest rate nationally, according to the Tuesday news release. In addition to affecting people’s economic well-being, unemployment also can be a risk factor for physical and mental health issues such as heart dis
May 8, 2021
May 8, 2021
Gov. Andy Beshear and Lt. Gov. Jacqueline Coleman announced Thursday the state has received a $21.6 million grant from the U.S. Department of Labor to boost efforts to help newly injured and ill employees remain at or return to work. We know that maintaining work is so important, said Gov. Beshear. When people leave Kentucky s workforce because they become sick or have an injury, it can be detrimental - not only to them, but to their families, employers and Kentucky s economy.
The Retaining Employment and Talent after Injury/Illness Network (RETAIN) Phase 2 funding is the largest federal grant awarded to date to the Kentucky Education and Workforce Development Cabinet s Office of Vocational Rehabilitation (OVR).
FRANKFORT, Ky.
(May 6, 2021) Gov. Andy Beshear and Lt. Gov. Jacqueline Coleman announced today the state has received a $21.6 million grant from the U.S. Department of Labor to boost efforts to help newly injured and ill employees remain at or return to work.
“We know that maintaining work is so important,” said Gov. Beshear. “When people leave Kentucky’s workforce because they become sick or have an injury, it can be detrimental not only to them, but to their families, employers and Kentucky’s economy.”
The Retaining Employment and Talent after Injury/Illness Network (RETAIN) Phase 2 funding is the largest federal grant awarded to date to the Kentucky Education and Workforce Development Cabinet’s Office of Vocational Rehabilitation (OVR).
The North Star State was one of five states to receive the grant.
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The Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development was recently awarded a grant from the U.S. Department of Labor to help keep ill and injured employees in the workforce.
Minnesota was one of five states to receive the award, called Retaining Employment and Talent After Injury/Illness Network (RETAIN) Phase II grant.
It is a four-year $19,518,509 grant through DOL’s Office of Disability Employment Programs (ODEP) that will fund MN RETAIN, which helps employees stay at or return to work more rapidly when an injury or illness impacts their ability to work.
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