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Title: SRC Participation in Comprehensive Statewide Needs Assessments


1
SRC Participation in Comprehensive Statewide
Needs Assessments
National state rehabilitation council forum June
25, 2013
2
Todays Presentation
  • CSNA Requirements
  • CSNA Principles
  • Role of the SRC in the CSNA
  • Frequently Asked Questions
  • Resources

3
What is the CSNA?
  • Comprehensive Statewide Needs Assessment
  • The basis for the State Plan goals, objectives,
    and strategies
  • VR agency and SRC are required by the
    Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended, to work
    jointly on conducting a CSNA
  • Conducted every three years
  • Attachment 4.11(a) of the State Plan


4
CSNA Required Information Goals
  1. VR service needs of individuals with the most
    significant disabilities, including their need
    for supported employment
  2. Individuals with disabilities who are minorities
  3. Individuals with disabilities who have been
    unserved and underserved by the VR program and
  4. Individuals with disabilities served through the
    statewide workforce investment system.

5
Attachment 4.11(a) Requirements
  • AND..an assessment of the need to
  • Establish, develop or improve
  • community rehabilitation programs (CRPs)
  • within the state

6
CSNA Principles
  • Take advantage of existing knowledge
  • Build on the experience of the State Plan
  • Involve the Community
  • VR Agency/SRC/Community partnership
  • Use data to focus the assessment goals
  • CSNA cannot rely on data alone
  • Design a feasible and reasonable project
  • Use wide range of methods, participants
  • Combine quantitative qualitative results
  • The process is as much an art as science

7
CSNA Principles
  • Multi-disciplinary needs assessment team
  • Data crunchers, fiscal and field staff, subject
    matter experts
  • Start thinking dissemination early
  • In developing State Plan options, learn from past
    successes and mistakes
  • What worked and what didnt, what changes are
    needed?
  • Does our evaluation in Attachment 4.11(e)(2)
    suggest that changes in strategies are needed?
  • Develop a menu of alternatives

8
CSNA Steps
  • Establish goals of the CSNA
  • What info exists, what info do we need? Who will
    be
  • involved in the process and what will the SRC
    role be?
  • Plan for information
  • Where can we get the needed information and how
    can
  • we get it?
  • Gather information
  • Use a wide range of methods, participants
  • Analyze results

9
CSNA Steps
  • Develop Conclusions
  • What needs have been identified?
  • Information for the State Plan
  • What needs are a priority, how will we address
    them
  • and what are our goals?
  • Disseminate Results
  • How can we make this available to the public?
  • Can other entities make use of this information?

10
SRC Role in the CSNA
  • SRC involvement in the CSNA process may be in the
    form of
  • Participation in the planning of the CSNA
  • Collecting data/information
  • Review of findings
  • Development of recommendations re State Plan
    goals and strategies
  • Disseminating the results
  • Periodic review of the results of the CSNA and
    other management information to determine whether
    the goals and strategies are responsive to the
    needs and to determine future actions

11
Examples of SRC Role in the CSNA
  • Planning
  • Participating on a CSNA planning committee
  • Reviewing manpower and skills available
  • Discussing whether the assessment should be
  • conducted internally or contracted to
    consultants
  • identifying the role of the SRC and other
    participants in the assessment

12
Examples of SRC Role in the CSNA
  • Gather Information Examples
  • Designing/conducting/reviewing surveys
  • Attending or conducting focus groups
  • Conducting key informant interviews
  • Attending, conducting or participating in hearings

13
Examples of SRC Role in the CSNA
  • Dissemination of CSNA results
  • Create a plan for sharing the results including
  • Audiences
  • Methods and media
  • Schedule
  • Costs
  • Goals

14
Frequently Asked Questions about the CSNA
  • Is the CSNA an event or a continuous process?
  • According to 34 CFR 361.29(a)(1), the CSNA must
    be conducted every three years. RSA has
    interpreted that to mean that a CSNA addressing
    all requirements and serving as the foundation
    for the State Plan goals and objectives must be
    completed by the end of the third FY, regardless
    of whether it is conducted as a single event in
    one year or continuously over a three-year
    period.

15
Frequently Asked Questions about the CSNA
  • Is the CSNA an event or a continuous process?
    (cont.)
  • Pros and Cons to Each Approach
  • Completing a portion of the CSNA each year for
    three years provides flexibility in scheduling
    activities and gathering information.
  • Conducting an assessment once, all in one year,
    provides a focused snapshot view and a sense of
    relief when its completed.
  • Either way,
  • Identified Needs ? Development of State Plan
    Goals and Policies

16
Frequently Asked Questions about the CSNA
  • If an agency and SRC conduct a needs assessment
    in three one-year parts, are the results to be
    consolidated into one report or submitted as
    yearly updates?
  • When the state conducts the CSNA on a continuous
    basis over a three-year period, the state must
    include the CSNA results in Attachment 4.11(a) of
    the State Plan as annual updates for each of the
    three years pursuant to 34 CFR 361.29(a)(2).

17
Frequently Asked Questions about the CSNA
  • How do you define unserved and underserved?
  • The Rehabilitation Act and its implementing
    regulations do not define these terms. The VR
    Needs Assessment Guide contains the following
    guideline
  • Unserved individuals are individuals who would be
    eligible for VR services but have not received VR
    services.
  • Underserved individuals are those who do not
    receive equal access to VR services.

18
Frequently Asked Questions about the CSNA
  • Unserved and underserved individuals
  • can include
  • racial and ethnic minorities
  • specific disability populations
  • people with disabilities who are low-income
  • veterans
  • certain age groups and
  • residents of a specific geographic area.

19
Resources Conducting a CSNA
  • For additional information on conducting a CSNA
    and completing State Plan Attachment 4.11(a)
  • See VR Needs Assessment Guide at
    http//rsa.ed.gov/display.cfm?pageid406
  • Contact your Regional Technical Assistance and
    Continuing Education center at
    https//ncrtm.org/moodle/course/view.php?id180

20
Resource SRC/VR Agency Partnership
  • 36th IRI The State Rehabilitation Council
    Vocational Rehabilitation Partnership at
    http//iriforum.org/books.aspx36ua
  • SRC On-Line Training Series (includes information
    on conducting the CSNA) at www.erehab.org

21
Thank you!
  • Janette Shell
  • RSA
  • 550 12th St., SWPCP Room 5010Washington, DC
    20202-2800
  • 202.245.7257 (voice)
  • 202.245.7590 (FAX)
  • Janette.shell_at_ed.gov
  • Susan Schaffer
  • Director, Office of Blindness and Vision
    Services
  • Maryland DORS2301 Argonne Drive Baltimore, MD
    21218
  • 410.554.9277 (voice)
  • 410.554.9197 (FAX)
  • sschaffer_at_dors.state.md.us
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