“…However, a recent national needs assessment of SVRAs and their affiliates indicated that CE was a relatively lower priority in regard to technical assistance and training relative to greater needs of SVRAs in areas such as customized training, business outreach, and even the highly associated service area of supported employment (Tansey et al, in press). CE may be viewed as less of priority among the range of challenges and opportunities that SVRAs have in relation to increasing participation of persons with disabilities in their services (Lee et al, in press; Tansey et al, in press), particularly looking at transition-age youth with disabilities (Friedman et al, in press); increasing the quality of employment outcomes through services such as customized training, work-based learning, and apprenticeships (Tansey et al, in press); and ultimately, engaging and supporting businesses as part of a larger dual-customer approach in the recruitment (Iwanaga et al, 2018), hiring (Grenawalt et al, in press), and retention of people with disabilities in the workforce (Chen et al, in press; Wu et al, in press). Even the task of working to address system issues impacting SVRA outcomes, such as transportation (Bezyak et al, in press), may represent the greater existential threat to CIE and be identified as a higher priority than the development of CE services.…”