Training Associate

Institute for Community Inclusion

B.A., Psychology, Rutgers University
M.S., University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey

Rick Kugler, CPRP, has worked with people with disabilities for over twenty years. His work has included inpatient and residential settings, psychosocial/vocational programming, and the delivery of community-based training seminars. He has managed grant-funded projects involving training and dissemination. In his current capacity as an ICI training associate, his primary responsibility is to assist in the implementation of the Medicaid and Comprehensive Employment Opportunities Infrastructure Grant, which focuses on strategies to increase consumer self-direction in the arena of employment.

Before joining ICI, Rick was an instructor and employment consultant with the department of psychiatric rehabilitation at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey and provided training and technical assistance to mental health providers, consumers, families, business and others. He was also a project director at Matrix Research Institute responsible for both the Employment Resource Center and the Social Security Work Incentives Project, which provided information, resources, and training on behalf of people with mental illness and/or dual disorders. He has developed and delivered training programs nationally, covering a wide range of topics about employment and disability. Rick was also employed as a vocational coordinator at a clubhouse psychosocial/vocational program and has nine years' experience as a psychiatric treatment assistant in a clinical setting.

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For more information, visit Rick's ICI website at

http://www.communityinclusion.org/staff.php?staff_id=98