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Title: Overview of the Public Vocational Rehabilitation Program


1
Overview of the Public Vocational Rehabilitation
Program
  • Presented by the
  • U.S. Department of Education
  • Rehabilitation Services Administration

2
Overview of the Public Vocational Rehabilitation
Program
  • Goal
  • The Goal of this session is to provide the
    participant
  • with an understanding of the uniqueness of the
    public vocational rehabilitation service delivery
    system.

3
Training ObjectivesAt the end of this session,
participants will
  • Understand the individual nature of the VR
    program.
  • Be aware of the range of services available to
    eligible consumers.
  • Understand the framework of the VR program.
  • Learn the benefits of collaborating with VR.

4
Disability in America
  • Millions of Americans have a disability
  • Less than 1/3 are employed
  • Among the most disadvantaged

5
Disability
A natural part of the human experience
6
Persons with Disabilities Have The Right To . . .
  • Live independently
  • Enjoy self-determination
  • Make choices
  • Contribute to society
  • Pursue meaningful careers

  • and . . .

7
Enjoy Full Inclusion and Integrationin American
Society
  • Economically
  • Politically
  • Socially
  • Culturally
  • Educationally

8
Purpose of the VR Program
  • To empower individuals with disabilities to
    maximize employment, achieve economic
    self-sufficiency and independence, and to realize
    full inclusion and integration into society.

9
Demonstrated Ability
  • 200,000
  • Americans with
  • disabilities
  • achieve employment
  • each year

10
Eligibility for VR Services
  • To be eligible for VR services, an individual
  • 1. Must be an individual with a disability, and
  • 2. Must require VR services to be employed

11
Eligibility for VR Services
  • 1st Criteria
  • Must be a person with a disability
  • physical or mental impairment
  • substantial barrier to employment
  • can benefit from services in terms of employment

12
Eligibility for VR Services
  • Employment Outcome
  • Competitive full-time or part-time employment
  • Supported employment
  • Self-employment
  • Other employment . . .

13
Eligibility for VR Services
  • 2nd Criteria
  • The individual with a disability . . .
  • must require VR services

14
Presumption of Eligibility
  • Presumed eligible if
  • Is receiving SSI and/or SSDI
  • Intends to achieve employment
  • Is capable of achieving employment

15
The Service Delivery System
  • VR services begin with an individualized
    assessment and career exploration
  • See a qualified VR counselor
  • Collect existing information
  • Acquire new information
  • Consider the results
  • Initiate joint planning
  • Specify rehabilitation needs

16
The Service Delivery System
  • A combination of rehabilitation and
    vocational services become the
  • Individualized Plan for Employment
  • Identify the employment outcome
  • Select VR services
  • Choose service providers
  • Establish timelines
  • Identify responsibilities
  • Other

17
Vocational Rehabilitation ServicesInclude but
are not limited to . . .
  • Assessment
  • Counseling and guidance
  • Referral
  • Restoration
  • Vocational training
  • Maintenance transportation
  • Interpreter services
  • Reader services
  • Transition services
  • Personal assistance
  • Rehabilitation Technology
  • Supported Employment
  • Tools equipment
  • Job placement

18
Key Elements ofConsumer Informed Choice
  • an ongoing process
  • a joint effort
  • a partnership
  • consumer driven
  • counselor supported
  • individualized career placement

19
Enabling policy and procedure(in consultation
with the SRC)
  • ? Long term vocational goal
  • ? Vocational rehabilitation services
  • ? Service providers
  • Must also assure
  • ? Appropriate mode of communication
  • ? Availability and scope of informed choice
  • ? How informed choice may be exercised
  • ? Support services if assistance is needed

20
Confidentiality
  • Policies and procedures
  • Collection of information
  • Protection of information
  • Use of information
  • Release of information
  • Recipients of information

21
Successful Rehabilitation
  • Criteria for Success
  • VR services contribution to outcome
  • The right job for the individual
  • The right workplace
  • Employed for 90 days
  • Consumer counselor agreement

22
Essential Tenets of the PublicVocational
Rehabilitation Program
  • Organizational Requirements
  • VR Directors Responsibilities
  • Priority of Services to Persons with Significant
    Disabilities
  • Comparable Services Benefits
  • Consumer Partnership
  • Qualified Rehabilitation Personnel
  • Quality Employment Outcomes

23
Organizational Unit Requirements
  • Stipulations of the Act
  • DSU is responsible for the VR program
  • Requires a full-time director
  • All staff must do VR work

24
VR Directors Responsibilities
  • Determine eligibility
  • Decide the nature and scope of services
  • Authorize services
  • Allocate expenditures
  • Exercise control of field staff
  • Establish the suitability of closure

25
Order of Selection
  • Priority for services to persons with
  • significant disabilities when there
  • are insufficient resources to serve
  • all eligible persons.

26
Comparable Services Benefits
  • Other resources
  • Exceptions
  • Eligibility assessment
  • Counseling guidance
  • Delays

27
Consumer Partnership
  • State Rehabilitation Council
  • Purpose
  • Functions

28
Qualified Rehabilitation Personnel
  • Educational qualifications
  • Medical aspects of disability
  • Counseling and guidance
  • Case management
  • Rehabilitation technology
  • Informed choice
  • Rehabilitation Act of 1973
  • Other disability-related law
  • Work incentive programs
  • Employment issues

29
Successful RehabilitationRequires
  • Quality
  • Employment
  • Outcomes

30
What Does VR Have to Offer?
  • Knowledge of
  • informed choice
  • disability
  • disability law
  • accessibility
  • assistive technology
  • career development
  • job modification
  • community resources
  • Experience with
  • employers
  • networking
  • disability management
  • youth with disabilities
  • rehabilitation providers
  • consumer groups
  • workplace supports and accommodations

31
Questions
and answers
32
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