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Plan: Missouri PYs 2016-2017
Combined Plan C

Section: Vocational Rehabilitation Program (Combined or General)

Narrative: d. 2. F.

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d. 2. F. Arrangements and Cooperative Agreements for the Provision of Supported Employment Services

(Formerly known as Attachment 4.8(b)(4)). Describe the designated State agency’s efforts to identify and make arrangements, including entering into cooperative agreements, with other State agencies and other appropriate entities in order to provide supported employment services and extended employment services, as applicable, to individuals with the most significant disabilities, including youth with the most significant disabilities.

Current Narrative:

As indicated in section (e), MVR enters into cooperative written agreements with CRPs to provide services on a fee–for–service basis to individuals with disabilities, which includes youth with the most significant disabilities. Ad hoc teams composed of MVR and CRP staff members worked together developing new ideas and designing processes to successfully support and implement those new ideas. The CRP–MVR steering committee meets regularly to improve services and outcomes for individuals with disabilities who are receiving supported employment services. Through collaborative efforts, MVR and CRP partners have strengthened the requirements for CRP who want to provide Employment Services Plus in the areas of deaf/hard of hearing, brain injury, and/or autism spectrum disorder. Two MVR district offices and a CRP in Mid–Missouri began piloting a newly designed supported employment model for adults and youth diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder. Additionally, through collaborative efforts between CRPs and MVR, a successful pilot project which provided a six week work experience for students with disabilities was developed and completed during the summer of 2015. Through this pilot project, 143 students with disabilities were able to experience work in a competitive integrated environment.

The CRPs provide SE services, which may include:

• community–based assessments;

• job supports;

• survey of businesses and assurance of potential community–based exploration, assessment and work sites suited to the needs of the clients;

• analysis of all relevant job–related variables (e.g., transportation, job restructuring, tax credit for employers, etc.);

• provision of direct training at employment sites until employment standards have been achieved;

• development of an internal advocacy system;

• provision of long–term, extended services support with the individual or employer; and

• customized employment for individuals and employers.