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
- q. Quality, Scope, and Extent of Supported Employment Services
Include the following:
- q. Quality, Scope, and Extent of Supported Employment Services
q. 1. The quality, scope, and extent of supported employment services to be provided to individuals with the most significant disabilities, including youth with the most significant disabilities
Current Narrative:
Louisiana Rehabilitation Services will provide and improve the quality of supported employment services through the Title VI Program, and the Title I, Vocational Rehabilitation Program to individuals with the most significant disabilities through the use of fee-for-service reimbursement, or LRS funded grants and/or contracts awarded to supported employment providers.
The goals of the program will be:
- To fund the vendors necessary to provide supported employment services to eligible consumers. These vendors will provide services to a diverse population of individuals with significant disabilities, including youth with the most significant disabilities.
- To ensure the quality of supported employment services provided to eligible consumers by improving the approval process including training requirements and options for contracted community rehabilitation programs and their staff.
- Expansion of the availability of customized employment services to individuals with the most significant disabilities, including youth with the most significant disabilities.
- Provide technical assistance and training opportunities to state office and field office staff to improve the supported employment service delivery system. The field staff will receive supported employment training directed at case management and quality supported employment services.
- To work cooperatively with other agencies (public and private), employers and advocates to assist in developing employment opportunities and multiple options for extended services to ensure more successful supported employment outcomes.
- To coordinate with the Department of Health (OBH and OCDD -Support Waivers Program, and Medicaid Purchase Plan), University of North TexasWorkplace Inclusion and Sustainable Employment (UNTWISE), the Louisiana Chapter of the Association for Persons in Supported Employment (APSE), and LSU Health Science Center Human Development Center in order to provide input to vendor agencies providing supported employment services and to solicit input from these agencies in the planning and implementation of quality supported employment services.
Supported Employment Models used by LRS:
LRS uses an Individual Job/Job Coach model. It is estimated that at least 1,377 individuals can be provided supported employment services who are also eligible for long-term supports.