Publication Details
Title:
Empowering minority group research
Author(s):
Lewis, Allen
Publication type:
Journal articles
Year:
2009
Publication:
International Innovation Journal Article, (), 63-65.
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Abstract:
VCU’S DEPARTMENT OF Rehabilitation Counseling in the School of Allied Health Professions was established in 1955 as one of the first rehabilitation counseling programs in the United States. VCU now ranks among the top 20 rehabilitation counseling training programs in the nation, according to U.S. News & World Report. The Project Empowerment grant project is being funded by a five-year National Institute of Disability and Rehabilitation Research grant of $1.78 million and will be used to identify and evaluate current practice and methods in the conduct of minority disability research and to begin to increase capacity in this area. The National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research is one of three components of the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services at the U.S. Department of Education. “The goal of the grant is to advance the state of the science in the conduct of minority disability research and to develop more persons who are passionate and interested in devoting careers to this line of research,” said Dr Allen Lewis, the
head of the project, its principal investigator and associate professor and chair of the Department of Rehabilitation Counseling. Dr Lewis fi rst became interested and involved in this work in 1998 when he began teaching on the subject matter, and more formally, in 2001 when he submitted his first version of this idea in an early unfunded grant proposal.
