Fabricio E Balcazar, Ph.D.
Professor
Director, Center on Capacity Building for Minorities with Disabilities Research
Disability and Human Development
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About
Dr. Fabricio E. Balcazar’s primary research interest is developing effective strategies for enhancing empowerment and personal effectiveness among individuals with disabilities. Dr. Balcazar has conducted research over the past 35 years on several disability-related areas, such as youth transitioning from school; the development of interventions to help minority individuals with disabilities transition into employment and career development (including a recent grant award to promote entrepreneurial skills and start-ups among minority youth with disabilities); the development and evaluation of a model service delivery approach to increase consumers' empowerment in the Vocational Rehabilitation system; the promotion of cultural competence in rehabilitation services; and the development of interventions for helping youth with disabilities who have dropped out of high school return to education and/or find jobs they can keep, among many others. Dr. Balcazar directs the Center on Capacity Building for Minorities with Disabilities Research and co-edited a book entitled Race, culture and disability: Issues in Rehabilitation Research and Practice. Dr. Balcazar is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and is Past President of Division 27 of APA—Society for Community Research and Action.
Selected Grants
Office of Disability Employment Policy, U.S. Department of Labor, Jobs for youth: a partnership to promote employment of inner-city youth with disabilities., Principal Investigator
Illinois Department of Human Services, Division of Rehabilitation Services, VR Quality Assurance Improvement Project, Principal Investigator
Illinois Department of Human Services, Division of Rehabilitation Services, Transition Model Implementation, Principal Investigator
National Institute on Disability & Rehabilitation Research, U.S Department of Education, Center on Capacity Building for Minority with Disabilities Research., Principal Investigator
Selected Publications
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Service to Community
Appointed Member of the Board for the Youth Connections Charter School in Chicago, by the Illinois legislature enacting the creation of this school for minority dropouts, since 1997. I have been a Board member ever since. In this role, I have been able to advocate for services for minority youth with disabilities and helped start transition services with support from the IL Division of Rehab
Professional Leadership
Former President, Society for Community Research and Action, Division 27 of the American Psychological Association
Former Treasurer, Society for Community Research and Action, Division 27 of the American Psychological Association
Committee on the use of assisted technology in eliminating or reducing the effects of impairments, Institute of Medicine
Metoring Services Coordinator, College of Applied Health Sciences
Notable Honors
2015, June 27th, Outstanding Service and Leadership Award, Presented by the Society for Community Research and Action, Division 27 of the American Psychological Association
2015, Excalibur Award, College of Applied Health Sciences Student Council for Teaching Excellence, University of Illinois at Chicago
2014, Jaliscience de Corazon, Federacion de Jaliciences del Medio Oeste de los Estados Unidos” (FEDEJAL)
2012, Professor of the Year Award, College of Applied Health Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago
Education
Ph.D., Developmental and Child Psychology, Department of Human Development and Family Life, University of Kansas, 1987
Professional Memberships
2000 – Present Member of the Division 22 Rehabilitation Psychology of the APA.
2003 – Present Member National Rehabilitation Counseling Association
2000 – Present Member National Rehabilitation Association
2010 – Present Fellow of the Midwestern Psychological Association (MPA)
1986 Present Fellow, American Psychological Association (APA)
1986 - Present Fellow of the Society for Community Research and Action, Division 27 of the APA.