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2 Year Modification

Plan: Louisiana PYs 2018-2019
Combined Plan C

Section: Vocational Rehabilitation Program (Combined or General)

Narrative: b. 1.

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  • Program-Specific Requirements for Vocational Rehabilitation

    The Vocational Rehabilitation (VR) Services Portion of the Unified or Combined State Plan* must include the following descriptions and estimates, as required by section 101(a) of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended by WIOA:

    __________

    * Sec. 102(b)(D)(iii) of WIOA

    • b. Request for Waiver of Statewideness
      When requesting a waiver of the statewideness requirement, the designated State unit must identify the types of services to be provided by the program on a non-statewide basis. The waiver request must also include written assurances that:

b. 1. A Local Public Agency Will Provide the Non-federal Share of Costs Associated with the Services to Be Provided in Accordance with the Waiver Request;

View corresponding narrative from PYs 2016-2017

Current Narrative:

Louisiana Rehabilitation Services is requesting approval for a waiver of statewideness in accordance with 34 CFR Section 361.26 for the following Third Party Cooperative Arrangements:

LRS and Bossier Parish Community College (BPCC) continue a third party arrangement to provide a post-secondary vocational training program to only those students (consumers) with disabilities who are applicants for or recipients of LRS services. The “Program for Successful Employment” (PSE) will be designed to increase the number of consumers with disabilities completing high school through dual enrollment opportunities located on a college campus leading to competitive employment. Once exited from the local education agency, consumers will complete their courses on the BPCC campus. PSE will provide career guidance, vocational sampling and training, and job placement opportunities for those consumers in the Shreveport Region.

LRS has six Third Party Cooperative Arrangements (TPCAs) established with separate School Districts in Grant, Bossier, Evangeline, Orleans, Natchitoches and Franklin Parishes as well as with Sci Academy and GW Carver. Through these TPCAs, a Transition Specialist provides workplace readiness training including self-advocacy, work-based learning experiences, and identification of employers who will host students for work-based learning. Virtual Academy of Lafourche has hired a transition specialists, through a TPCA, to provide workplace readiness training including self-advocacy, work-based learning experiences, and identification of employers who will host students for work-based learning.

LRS has a TPCA with LSU HDC Pay Check to hire an Employment Liaison and a Transitional Employment Coordinator to help identify employers for students with developmental disabilities and mental illness.