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Welcome to the Center on Knowledge Translation for Employment Research

The Center on Knowledge Translation for Employment Research or CeKTER (pronounced like “sector”) is a collaborative effort between Boston University's Sargent College of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation and the Implementation Science and Practice Advances Research Center (iSPARC) at UMass Chan Medical School

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Our Expertise

We aim to promote the use of employment research findings & research-based products by people with disabilities, employers, employment service providers, vocational rehabilitation professionals, and policymakers, among others. CeKTER’s overall goal is to assist NIDILRR disability employment grantees with sharing their work that will improve services, approaches, practices, and policies that support improved outcomes for people with disabilities.

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Increase Awareness 
Through the use of disability employment research findings funded by NIDILRR and other entities

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Increase Understanding 
Of quality and relevance of NIDILRR-funded employment research findings & their contribution to the knowledge base

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Increase Capacity 
Of employment-focused NIDILRR grantees to engage in knowledge translation (KT) activities

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Community of Practice (CoP)
Brings together groups of people who share a concern, a set of problems, or a passion about a topic and who deepen their knowledge and expertise in this area by interacting on an ongoing basis.

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Featured Resources
Collection of downloadable briefs, tip sheets, reports, webinars, and more created and compiled by CeKTER

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Knowledge Translation Academy
KT Training Academy will offer a variety of classes to increase the capacity of NIDILLR grantees and their collaborators to disseminate and implement employment research findings.

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Technical Assistance
We provide technical assistance services to all NIDILRR-sponsored grantees who have a project goal related to employment/education to help improve the quality of your knowledge translation efforts related to employment research

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