abstract: 'Despite legislation promoting youth transition from school to

  employment, and despite growing knowledge of factors contributing to

  successful transitions, youth with disabilities continue to work at

  lower rates compared with their nondisabled peers. Over the past decade,

  efforts specifically directed toward reducing this intractable

  employment gap between these two groups of youth have met with

  relatively little success. Marriott Foundation''s Bridges from

  School-to-Work Program, a national multisite intervention offering paid

  competitive employment to high school youth enrolled in special

  education programs prior to school exit, addresses obstacles to labor

  market participation confronted by youth with disabilities, with an

  intensive, time-limited vocational intervention at seven inner-city

  urban sites across the United States. We found universally high job

  placement rates of a large sample of youth with disabilities enrolled in

  high school over several recent years of operation (2006 to 2011) across

  their sociodemographic and disability characteristics, and across

  diverse urban areas throughout the United States. Thus, we argue that

  educational, disability, and rehabilitation professionals should hold

  high expectations for employment success of these youth, regardless of

  their disabilities and the local economic conditions of the communities

  in which they live.'
affiliation: 'Gold, PB (Corresponding Author), Univ Maryland, Dept Counseling Higher
  Educ \& Special Educ, College Pk, MD 20742 USA.

  Gold, Paul B.; Fabian, Ellen S., Univ Maryland, College Pk, MD 20742 USA.

  Luecking, Richard G., TransCen Inc, Rockville, MD USA.'
author: Gold, Paul B. and Fabian, Ellen S. and Luecking, Richard G.
author-email: pbgold08@gmail.com
author_list:
- family: Gold
  given: Paul B.
- family: Fabian
  given: Ellen S.
- family: Luecking
  given: Richard G.
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1177/0034355213481248
files: []
issn: 0034-3552
journal: REHABILITATION COUNSELING BULLETIN
keywords: 'youth with disabilities; school-to-work transition; career; vocational;

  employment program participation; gender disparities'
keywords-plus: EMPLOYMENT OUTCOMES; STUDENTS; SUPPORT; RETURN
language: English
month: OCT
number: '1'
number-of-cited-references: '31'
pages: 31-45
papis_id: e71a107134050bb038eacd687ee06855
ref: Gold2013jobacquisition
times-cited: '22'
title: Job Acquisition by Urban Youth With Disabilities Transitioning From School
  to Work
type: article
unique-id: WOS:000323663500004
usage-count-last-180-days: '0'
usage-count-since-2013: '26'
volume: '57'
web-of-science-categories: Rehabilitation
year: '2013'