StateFederal Vocational Rehabilitation

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State-Federal Vocational Rehabilitation

• Guest Speaker Orville Townsend
• Director, IDVRS, Iowa City
• Parker Szymanski, Ch 2
• Lecture 12, October 12, 1998

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State-Federal Vocational Rehabilitation

• Three salient elements
• Philosophy
• Services
• Service Delivery

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Philosophy

• We live in a work-oriented society, people with
  disabilities should be employed in accordance
  with their abilities, and thus make their
  contribution to society

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Types of Disabilities Served (1990)

• Orthopedic impairments, 20.8
• Mental illness, 16.2
• Mental Retardation, 14.1
• Other, 48.9

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Rehabilitation Services

• Enable persons with physical, mental, or
  emotional disabilities to become gainfully
  employed
• Primary Services
• Vocational Evaluation
• Diagnostic Evaluation
• Counseling and Guidance
• Physical and Mental Restoration
• Training and Job Placement

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Related Legislation

• Rehabilitation Act of 1973
• See page 42 for purposes of this Act
• Rehabilitation Act Amendments, 1997

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State-Federal VR Program Conducted by

• U.S. Dept. of Educations Office of Special
  Education and Rehabilitation Services (OSERS)
• Under the legal authority of the Rehabilitation
  Act of 1973 and its amendments
• Purpose Provide research, training, and
  services Maximize employability, independence,
  and integration into the workplace and community

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OSERS Administers the Programs through

• Rehabilitation Services Administration (RSA)
• Provides funds, monitors program operation, and
  interprets legislative requirements for program
  implementation
• RSA is the principal agency for carrying out the
  act 10 regional offices supervise rehab service
  activities of state programs within each region

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RSA also

• administers grants for
• rehabilitation counseling
• rehabilitation medicine
• vocational evaluation
• work adjustment training
• program innovations and expansion
• employer development
• training (like our program)

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Funding

• Provided on a state population and per-capita
  income basis
• 80 Federal, 20 State Funding (1997, Orv)
• Current matching funding?

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Rehabilitation Services Manual

• Key legal document that must be federally
  approved
• Former criterion
• Agency identification, organizational placement,
  leadership of a director, staff adequacy
• Procedures for determining eligibility, order of
  selection
• Plans, policies, and methods for improvement of
  services
• Development of the IWRP

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Order of Selection

• Each state must have in place policy that
  describes the order in which individuals will be
  selected to be served
• Individuals with the most severe disabilities
  will be served first

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Consumer Informed Choice

• Long-term vocational goal
• Intermediate rehabilitation objectives
• Vocational rehabilitation services
• including assessment services
• Service providers

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The IWRP

• information regarding cost, duration, and
  accessibility of services
• consumer satisfaction with those services
• qualifications of service providers, and the
  types of services offered by them
• degree to which the services are provided in
  integrative settings

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Rehabilitation Service Delivery

• Pages 45-47 Be familiar with these areas of
  service
• Evaluation, counseling, guidance, referral
• physical mental restoration (see list p. 46)
• vocational training services, maintenance
• transportation, family support
• cont..

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cont.

• interpreter services, reader services,
  telecommunications
• recruitment and training services to provide new
  employment opportunities in certain fields (see
  p. 47)
• job search and placement, follow-up services
• supported employment services

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cont.

• personal assistance service
• post-employment services
• occupational licenses, tools, set up costs, etc.
• Transition services
• rehabilitation engineering services, other goods
  services reasonably expected to benefit the
  individual in terms of employability

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Case status code system

• Pages 47-53
• You will want to familiarize yourself with these
  status codes. Use handout to update current
  developments (Orv)

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continued...

• Pages 56-68
• Provides you with and explanation of
• Referral and preliminary investigation
• Evaluation (interview, medical, psychological,
  vocational, sociocultural)
• Planning Services (IWRP)
• Service Delivery
• Placement
• Follow-up

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Changing Roles and Functions

• of rehabilitation counselors within the
  State-Federal VR Program
• Mental health
• Increased prevalence of MI
• Substance Abuse Treatment
• Geriatric Rehabilitation
• Employee Assistance Programs
• Private Practice or Consultation with Public
  Agencies

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Orville Townsend

• Update on Current Rehabilitation Process
• Update on Sociopolitical Dynamics in the State of
  Iowa
• Qualified providers
• Service delivery
• Order of selection update

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