Located in:
- 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:
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* Sec. 102(b)(D)(iii) of WIOA
- d. Coordination with Education Officials
- 2. Information on the Formal Interagency Agreement with the State Educational Agency with Respect To:
- I. Comprehensive System of Personnel Development; Data System on Personnel and Personnel Development(Formerly known as Attachment 4.10)). Describe the designated State agency's procedures and activities to establish and maintain a comprehensive system of personnel development designed to ensure an adequate supply of qualified State rehabilitation professional and paraprofessional personnel for the designated State unit, including the following:
- i. Data System on Personnel and Personnel Development
- I. Qualified Personnel Needs.Describe the development and maintenance of a system for collecting and analyzing on an annual basis data on qualified personnel needs with respect to:
- I. Qualified Personnel Needs.
- i. Data System on Personnel and Personnel Development
- I. Comprehensive System of Personnel Development; Data System on Personnel and Personnel Development
- 2. Information on the Formal Interagency Agreement with the State Educational Agency with Respect To:
- d. Coordination with Education Officials
d. 2. I. i. I. a. The number of personnel who are employed by the State agency in the provision of VR services in relation to the number of individuals served, broken down by personnel category;
Current Narrative:
This section describes Louisiana Rehabilitation Services’ (LRS’) procedures and activities to ensure an adequate supply of qualified professionals and paraprofessionals to provide Vocational Rehabilitation (VR) services statewide. The Louisiana Rehabilitation Council can review and comment on the agency’s Re-Training Plan upon request.
In order to assess the need for qualified personnel, LRS has developed and maintains a database which includes information on the number of rehabilitation personnel providing VR services, and the ratio of the number of personnel needed by the agency to adequately provide VR services statewide.
LRS is geographically divided into eight (8) regions within the state; each region has one designated transition counselor, one counselor for the deaf and one counselor for the blind. In PY 2017, LRS had a staff of 188, of which 77 were Rehabilitation Counselors with an average caseload size of 148 consumers. LRS provided services to 18,460 VR and 4,036 Pre-ETS consumers. Of the individuals receiving services, the Rehabilitation Employment Development Specialists (REDS), who have varying caseload sizes, provided direct job placement services to 94 consumers. Eight thousand, seven hundred and eighty-one consumers received services from Community Rehabilitation Program (CRP) staff and Evaluators. As a result, 1,834 consumers exited the VR program achieving an employment outcome in PY 2017. This does not include Pre-ETS consumers.