Business Engagement Strategies for Vocational Rehabilitation Professionals: A Scoping Review

The purpose of this scoping review was to identify research-based resources that explore vocational rehabilitation-related business engagement strategies as they relate to three steps: (a) understanding business needs, (b) marketing to businesses, and (c) supporting businesses. In doing so, this review begins to identify strategies that may support vocational rehabilitation agencies and their compliance with the business engagement requirements mandated by the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act. The search of several databases and gray literature identified 153 resources with titles and abstracts that met screening criteria, 54 of which met the inclusion criteria after a review of the full text. Because the purpose of a scoping review is to describe the landscape of available literature on a given topic, this review did not vet studies for quality, nor did it exclude studies of interventions that did not lead to successful business engagement outcomes. Given its goal of identifying broadly relevant information available, the review included resources from non–peer-reviewed, practitioner-oriented sources.