Located in:
- Program-Specific Requirements for Vocational Rehabilitation (Blind)
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
p. 2. B. Describe the factors that impeded the achievement of the goals and priorities
Current Narrative:
RSB’s client base is the result of a relatively low incidence disability. More so, RSB’s Supported Employment population is a smaller subset of the blindness and visual impairment population.
PY 2020 saw a downward trend in referrals overall. Though this downward trend is a national trend that has occurred for the past several years, the PY 2020 saw the advent of a global pandemic. Throughout early part of the pandemic, RSB continued to provide services to clients remotely wherever possible. This also included collaborating with RSB’s Community Rehabilitation Program partners. RSB then adopted strategies to provide itinerant services to clients by following established CDS guidelines for social distancing during the pandemic.
Despite the previously mentioned declining trend, RSB was able to exceed the 23 projected participants to receive Supported Employment services in PY-2020 by having 74 participants of SE services in PY-2020. RSB continues to monitor trends and continues to develop new methods of case finding, service provision, and quality assurance.