Mission

IARP Mission.
Our Mission and Goals

Providing a community for rehabilitation professionals in their quest for education and professional growth.

IARP is dedicated to: promoting effective multidisciplinary rehabilitation, disability management, and return-to-work services on behalf of persons with disabilities and the economically disadvantaged; enhancing the competency of service providers; supporting innovation in related business development and management; and becoming the pre-eminent source for shaping public policy that affects rehabilitation.

To pursue this purpose, IARP will strive towards the following goals:

• Maintain an organizational structure that addresses member issues and expectations while reflecting and promoting the highest level of volunteer and staff competency.
• Promote high standards of training and practice through the development of innovative continuing education and career enhancement opportunities.
• Foster high standards of ethical conduct throughout the profession and encourage high standards for professional performance.
• Monitor and influence federal/state/regional government and industry policies that affect the rehabilitation profession.
• Promote the chartering of chapters through which members can work as an effective group to further the goals of IARP specific to their region and/or geographic area.
• Encourage member networking with the goal of understanding issues and trends affecting the profession and competency of all members.
• Promote rehabilitation research by collecting, interpreting, and disseminating information on effective rehabilitation practices, and by consideration of changing social, economic, governmental, and technological conditions that affect providers of rehabilitation services and consumers.
• Maintain cooperative relationships and activities with other organizations in pursuit of the Association's mission.