Helping Workers Keep Their Jobs After an Injury, Illness, or Disability

The Stay-at-Work/Return-to-Work Policy Collaborative will host a forum and webinar on Sept. 13 from 12 to 1:30 p.m. ET to share policy recommendations for helping workers keep their jobs after injury, illness, or disability.

Helping Workers Keep Their Jobs After an Injury, Illness, or Disability

A Policy Forum and Live Webinar Sponsored by the Stay-at-Work/Return-to-Work Policy Collaborative and the Center for Studying Disability Policy

Sep 13, 2016 12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.

Location

Washington, DC, and Online

On Tuesday, September 13, 2016, the Stay-at-Work/Return-to-Work (SAW/RTW) Policy Collaborative of the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Disability Employment Policy andMathematica’s Center for Studying Disability Policy will host a policy forum and webinar to share actionable recommendations for policies that can improve the SAW/RTW outcomes of workers who experience injury, illness, or disability. State and federal policymakers, employers, workers, service providers, staff of professional associations, and researchers are invited to join us to learn more about SAW/RTW initiatives and contribute to a discussion of critical policy and programmatic issues.

For additional context about the imperative to prevent work disability, watch our videofeaturing occupational physician, Dr. Jennifer Christian, and read her statement of principles for work disability prevention, which provides background, makes the case for taking action, and points toward some solutions.

Our panel of experts will discuss:

• Steps states can take to help workers keep their jobs after injury, illness, or disability
• Adapting a successful workers’ compensation initiative to off-the-job cases
• Behavioral interventions designed to promote SAW/RTW

Lunch will be served at 11:45 a.m. For more information, please contactR2WPolicy@mathematica-mpr.com.