VR-IL collaborations can be expected to grow. Alliances with ILCs through fee-for-service agreements, matching funds, and similar reimbursement plans or other non-financial arrangements offer VR agencies important strategies for expanding consumer choice and enhancing employment strategies. Increasingly, ILC consumers see competitive employment as vital to their overall goals of independent living, and ILCs seek to expand their employment-related services. In general, the collaborations that took part in the VR-IL Project were optimistic about the potential for such partnerships to develop elsewhere. They repeatedly stressed that the VR and ILC communities must acknowledge historic differences, respect each others' expertise and resources, and resolve to work together to help consumers meet their employment goals.

We encourage ILCs, VR agencies, SILCs, consumers, researchers, and others to contribute to the base of knowledge about VR-IL collaborations. Readers are invited to submit information about new collaborations and existing partnerships that were not described in this directory. If you have any materials that describe your program, please feel free to send them along. We will post this information on our web site periodically.

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