Located in:
- Program-Specific Requirements for Vocational Rehabilitation (Combined or General)
The Vocational Rehabilitation (VR) Services Portion of the Unified or Combined State Plan [13] must include the following descriptions and estimates, as required by section 101(a) of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended by title IV of WIOA:
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[13] Sec. 102(b)(2)(D)(iii) of WIOA
d. 2. B. Transition planning by personnel of the designated State agency and educational agency that facilitates the development and implementation of their individualized education programs;
Current Narrative:
The LRS Transition Program Coordinator works collaboratively with the Louisiana Department of Education (LDOE) Transition Coordinator in planning for the transition of students with disabilities from school to post-school activities including VR services. Both agencies share responsibility to coordinate the provision of services, conduct outreach, and identify financial responsibility as needed. The LDOE will assure that all students with disabilities and their families have knowledge of LRS policies and services including brochures and promotional information supplied by LRS. Information dissemination begins with the writing of the transition service page and continues through referral to LRS. Local Education Agencies (LEAs) also invite LRS representatives to:
- attend IEP meetings at the students’ request, when a transition service page is being written for a student with a disability who may be eligible for and/or interested in VR services;
- facilitate appropriate orientation meetings among LRS staff, student and family members;
- provide time for LRS staff to meet with teachers, guidance counselors, and other appropriate personnel for such purposes as information sharing/gathering at both the individual and agency levels; and
- assist in the development, provision, and evaluation of interagency vocational assessment processes and functional vocational transition programs.
School Districts who have entered into Third-Party Cooperative Arrangements with LRS provide coordination and required Pre-Employment Transition Services activities to students with disabilities, as determined by LRS Rehabilitation Counselors to be eligible to receive Pre-Employment Transition Services, through a Transition Specialist funded by the contract and under the administrative supervision of LRS.
LRS has current Third-Party Cooperative Arrangements with Bossier, Grant, Franklin, Evangeline, Livingston, Desoto, and Natchitoches parishes, as well as with Collegiate Academies Charter Schools, Sci Academy, Livingston Collegiate, GW Carver, Collegiate Baton Rouge, New Harmony High, Educators for Quality Alternatives and Rosenwald Collegiate, in the implementation of third-party cooperative arrangements to provide Pre-Employment Transition Services.