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The report highlights the most promising policies, strategies, and practices for opioid prescription management between 2014 and 2019. The environmental scan covered approaches applied in workers’ compensation programs and other health care settings, such as health insurance programs and health care systems.

The supplemental resource to the Workers' Compensation and the Opioid Epidemic: State of the Field in Opioid Prescription Management Final Report that provides detailed information on each of the reviewed studies (with sort-and-filter capabilities) that covered approaches applied in workers’ compensation programs and other health care settings, such as health insurance programs and health care systems.

In 2016, the Chief Evaluation Office (CEO) partnered with the Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP) to fund contractor Westat to conduct the Survey of Employer Policies on the Employment of People with Disabilities. The survey, administered in 2018, collected information from employers about organizational policies, practices, successes, and challenges, as well as attitudes and beliefs regarding the recruitment, hiring, retention, and advancement of people with disabilities. The 2,023 survey respondents represent businesses across the United States.

The brief related to the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) Office of Disability Employment Policy's (ODEP) Survey of Employer Policies on the Employment of People with Disabilities examines the extent to which companies implement disability-inclusive recruitment, hiring, retention, and advancement practices and which practices are related to hiring of people with disabilities.

Report of the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) Office of Disability Employment Policy's (ODEP) Survey of Employer Policies on the Employment of People with Disabilities. The executive summary begins with a brief description of the methodology followed by an overview of major findings from the survey. A more in-depth review of findings plus methodological detail is contained in the remainder of this report and its technical appendices.

Video discussing the demographics of women veterans, as compared to male veterans or nonveterans of either gender, and how veterans comprising only 1.5% of American women (as compared to 14% of American men) can contribute to assumptions about who a veteran is.

Veterans tend to attend school at older ages than non-veterans. In 2018, among 25-34 year olds, 35-44 year olds, and 45-54 year olds, women veterans were twice as likely as women nonveterans to be enrolled in school. This is significant because people enrolled in school have higher unemployment rates than people not enrolled in school.

The brief related to the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) Office of Disability Employment Policy's (ODEP) Survey of Employer Policies on the Employment of People with Disabilities examines employers’ efforts to employ, recruit, and hire people with disabilities and their attitudes toward people with disabilities.

Brief related to the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) Office of Disability Employment Policy's (ODEP) Survey of Employer Policies on the Employment of People with Disabilities that uses data from the survey to examine implementation of disability-inclusive workplace policies and practices by federal contractors and non-federal contractors.

In the second installment in a series of snapshot poll briefs, the IVMF research team, in partnership with Military Times, examines the impact of the coronavirus on the military and veteran community, including financial and other stresses during these unprecedented times. This second brief analyzes resource needs among veteran and the active duty service member populations in key areas such as employment, education, childcare, mental and physical health, along with caregiving resources.