WINTAC
Workforce Innovation Technical Assistance Center or the WINTAC.
The WINTAC is a national center that is funded to provide training and technical assistance
to state vocational rehabilitation agencies and related rehabilitation professionals
and service providers to help them develop these fields and processes needed to meet
the requirements of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act or WIOA. The WINTAC
is funded by cooperative agreement from the Department of Education's Rehabilitation
Services Administration.
The WINTAC has operated and led by the Interwork Institute at San Diego State University,
but we have several partners across the nation. These partners include the National
Disability Institute and their LEAD Center. The George Washington University Center
for Rehabilitation Counseling, Research and Education, the University of Arkansas
CURRENTS, PolicyWorks, the Career Index, the Council of State Administrators of Vocational
Rehabilitation, and Syracuse University's Burton Blatt Institute.
The WINTAC will be providing technical assistance training to State VR Agencies and
partners on five major topic areas related to the implementation of WIOA.