Milestones

IARP Milestones

Founders of IARP/NARPPS defeat 1975 legislation that would have created a government monopoly for the delivery of vocational rehabilitation services by the California Department of Rehabilitation. Under the revised mandatory vocational rehabilitation law, both the public and private sectors provide vocational rehabilitation services to the industrially injured workers of California.

IARP/NARPPS incorporates in 1981 as a US national 501(c)(6) non-profit corporation under its former name National Association of Rehabilitation Professionals in the Private Sector (NARPPS).

IARP/NARPPS professional peer review process based on formal standards and ethics criteria is endorsed at the first annual NARPPS conference.

Association To Association (ATA) network evolves from alliances among professional rehabilitation organizations. To date, IARP has participated in cooperative ATA ventures with the Disability Management Employment Coalition, the Case Management Association of America, the Neuro-Optometric Rehabilitation Association, and the Occupational Injury Prevention and Rehabilitation Society.

IARP/NARPPS engages in a four-year legislative effort to remove the monopoly enjoyed by public state vocational rehabilitation agencies in the provision of services to Social Security Disability beneficiaries. The Ticket To Work and Work Incentives Improvement Act of 1999 is signed into US law in December 1999.

NARPPS changes its name in 2000 to the International Association of Rehabilitation Professionals (IARP). The new name positions IARP to become the pre-eminent interdisciplinary organization representing rehabilitation professionals worldwide.