{"id":20439,"date":"2019-05-24T11:55:28","date_gmt":"2019-05-24T11:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/news-stories\/fabricio-balcazar-and-sarah-parker-harris-win-research-grant-from-the-national-institute-on-disability-independent-living-and-rehabilitation-research\/"},"modified":"2019-05-24T11:55:28","modified_gmt":"2019-05-24T11:55:28","slug":"fabricio-balcazar-and-sarah-parker-harris-win-research-grant-from-the-national-institute-on-disability-independent-living-and-rehabilitation-research","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/news-stories\/fabricio-balcazar-and-sarah-parker-harris-win-research-grant-from-the-national-institute-on-disability-independent-living-and-rehabilitation-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Fabricio Balcazar and Sarah Parker Harris win research grant from the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living and Rehabilitation Research"},"template":"","news_categories":[17,18],"news_tags":[],"class_list":["post-20439","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry","news_categories-grants","news_categories-research"],"acf":{"intro_text_subtitle":"","intro_text_body":"<p>DHD professor <a href=\"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/disability-human-development\/directory\/balcazar-fabricio-e\/\"><strong>Fabricio Balcazar<\/strong><\/a> and DHD associate professor <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/disability-human-development\/directory\/parker-harris-sarah\/\">Sarah Parker Harris<\/a><\/strong> were awarded a $2.3 million research grant from the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living and Rehabilitation Research. The project, &#8220;Promoting Entrepreneurship Among Low-Income Youth with Disabilities,&#8221; aims to develop and conduct formative and summative evaluations of a school-based model intended to promote self-employment outcomes among transition-aged youth with disabilities from low-income communities.<\/p>\n<p>The project will be implemented in collaboration with a school for dropouts called Youth Connection Charter School and with the Illinois Division of Rehabilitation Services. Balcazar is the PI and the Co-PIs are Parker-Harris and Maija Renko from the UIC College of Business. The grant will bring $2,374,979 over five years to UIC.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","intro_text_excerpt":"The project aims to promote entrepreneurship among low-income youth with disabilities","content_author":"Tamar Heller","content_sticky":false,"intro_text_include_image":false,"intro_text_image":false,"intro_text_image_alt_text":"","intro_text_image_caption":"","intro_text_image_attribution":"","news_include_thumbnail":false,"news_thumbnail_image":false,"news_thumbnail_image_alt_text":""},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/20439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/20439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_categories?post=20439"},{"taxonomy":"news_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_tags?post=20439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}