Services contracted from Community Rehab Programs

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Services contracted from Community Rehab Programs

• Evaluation (in house)
• Work Adjustment Training (in house)
• Work Adjustment Job Coaching
• Supported Employment
• Supplemental Evaluation
• Job Development
• Intensive Training
• Community Based Assessment

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Evaluation

• May be used to clarify or refine the vocational
  goal at any point in the rehabilitation process
• Should not exceed six(6) weeks
• Should answer referral questions regarding the
  clients level of functioning, available
  resources and appropriate vocational options
• A post evaluation staffing is required with
  appropriate team members, including the client. A
  written report should be provided.

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Work Adjustment Training

• Assists the client with developing the work
  skills required to become employed
• Goals must come from an evaluation or the
  consumer has been through the program previously
• Financial need is not longer required to be
  established however comparable benefits should
  be used to the maximum extent, when available.
  Transportation and all other support services
  require a financial needs test.

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Work Adjustment Job Coaching

• Designed to be short termed training for job
  ready consumers
• Cannot be utilized for Placement Only
• Do not use Supported Employment terms of
  intensive training stabilization for Work
  Adjustment services
• Includes Job Development and Job Training

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What is Supported Employment?

• The 1986 reauthorization of the Rehabilitation
  Act of 1973 (P.L. 99-506) defines the term
  supported employment as..
• ...competitive work in integrated settings (A)
  for individuals with severe handicaps for whom
  competitive employment has not traditionally
  occurred, or (B) for individuals for whom
  competitive employment has been interrupted or
  intermittent as a result of a severe disability,
  and who, because of their handicap, need ongoing
  support services to perform such work.

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Phases of Supported Employment

• EXTENDED SERVICES

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Community Based Assessment

• Perform competitive job related duties in public
  and private sector
• On-Site assessment of an individuals skills and
  job related behaviors
• A CBA can be completed when the student is being
  paid by the job site or without pay
• Job site for situational assessment, skills
  building and vocational explorations
• Without the client meeting the definition of an
  employee
• VR Vol. I 2-27-3 Definition and criteria of CBA