Employment Assistance
Triumph Foundation's Employment Assistance Program helps people with spinal cord injury (SCI) obtain and retain employment and maximize their ability to live independently. Triumph’s vocational rehabilitation team work closely with job seekers to establish the best combination of services and resources necessary to prepare for, find, retain, and advance in employment. Our services are tailored to each individual’s strengths and challenges to ensure the greatest chance of success.
Services offered include, but are not limited to: consultation, resume development, advocacy, information and referral, peer support, education, transition, and navigating insurance plans once employed.
Unemployment remains a prevalent and serious problem for persons with SCI, which is especially disturbing considering evidence that vocational outcomes affect both quality of life and longevity. Low employment rates after rehabilitation are cause for concern since return to gainful employment may be the most recognized primary marker of successful rehabilitation outcome after disability.
But still, many in the SCI community face disproportional challenges in securing stable employment. It is estimated that there are 20,000 new cases of SCI every year in the United States. Approximately 60% of cases occurred in people 16 to 30 years of age, corresponding to the developmental periods associated with career development and establishment. Ten years after injury, 32.4% of persons with paraplegia were employed, whereas only 24.2% of those with tetraplegia were employed at that time. Compared with the general population, unemployment rates in the SCI population have been reported in excess of 10-fold.
Triumph Foundation's goal is to help people with SCI reintegrate back into the community. Finding employment is a major step towards rebuilding & living a purposeful life.
For advice and counseling contact: [email protected]
Resources to help people with disabilities enter into the workforce.
In addition, Triumph also provides funds to assist with efforts to return to work or gain employment advancement through our Employment Achievement Award, which provides people with SCI financial assistance to achieve more success with current employer, for a license/product/equipment that will enable work, start a business, and/or increase their workplace success.
