Narrative: d. 2. N. ii. II.

• DVR has a close working relationship with our partners at DHHS Office of Aging and Disability Services and Mental Health Services we have developed a procedural directive which spells out how wavier services will fund career planning (specifically they fund Discovering Personal Genius© as the career planning model) and once Discovery is completed (waiver services will fund up to 50 hours), a referral is made to DVR who will work with the case manager and agency to proceed with job development and perhaps further exploration as needed. Then, when an individual has been successfully placed in a job and is stable and closed out successfully (may utilize extended services for this as needed), waiver funds will then pick up again and cover long term support services (usually job coaching) which will help the individual continue to remain stable on the job. • DVR is in the process of developing a partnership with Jobs for Maine Graduates (JMG) which is a local affiliate of the National Jobs for Americas Graduates programs. JMG provides pre-employment services to in school youth with a variety of barriers including those with disabilities and as part of our desire to improve our services to in-school youth, we are discussing how to provide additional training for JMG staff so that more students with disabilities can be served by their program. We also plan to develop a fee structure to make JMG a vender so these services can be paid for through the VR program.