Stroud Vocational Experts bring hands on experience from a highly specialized field that confront the challenges of job placement of adult individuals with disabilities and other employment barriers into competitive work environments. Each expert is skilled in the areas of vocational evaluation, workforce and human resource development, social science, and psychology. In addition to a strong educational background, each expert holds a minimum of five years’ experience in vocational rehabilitation, job counseling, and job placement of adult disabled workers and certification as a CRC or ABVE professional. Additionally, our experts understand the complexity of disabilities and who may be challenged with multiple employment barriers. Our experts are competent and versed with current and extensive experience obtained from being actively engaged as principals, employees or private consultants in counseling involved with the actual job placement of adult disabled individuals. The VE Launchpad from the Stroud Academy and Stroud Vocational Expert Services, LLC© provides specialized virtual training in the field of Vocational Forensics, specifically for SSA BPA holders. https://youtu.be/yIPD7HiYshs. As a SSA BPA contract holder since 2012, we bring the expertise gained from referring testimony unwell over 10,000 SSA Administrative Law OHO hearings. Our team of Vocational Consultants are highly specialized in various areas of Vocational Forensics and each VELaunchpad © graduates! Each Stroud VE provides testimonial and vocational evaluation services exclusively under the Stroud BPA for the Social Security Administration and Vocational Consulting for firms needing Vocational Expert experience. Stroud Services now offers The Stroud Academy and the first of its kind in SSAVE Training, The VELaunchpad©, a complete resource for SSA Vocational Experts to gain training and confidence prior to testimony and continuing education throughout their careers.