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- 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
p. 2. A. Identify the strategies that contributed to the achievement of the goals
Current Narrative:
PROGRESS IN ACHIEVING THE SUPPORTED EMPLOYMENT GOALS
The total authorized dollars for CRP supported employment (SE) services in Program Year (PY) 2018 was $194,460 for 95 consumers with most significant disabilities. This is an increase from PY 2017, when 85 consumers were served and $190,265 were authorized for CRP SE services.
As previously addressed in the discussion of DRS Goal 5, DRS continued to build collaborative relationships with community providers (including CRPs, Independent Living, and other community providers) to enhance the availability of services to DRS consumers. A comparison of findings from the 2015 CSNA and the 2018 CSNA indicates that there is still a need to continue to improve collaborative relationships with community providers. While a greater percentage of CRP survey respondents acknowledged that a DRS liaison counselor was in contact on a regular basis (i.e., 68.1% in 2015 vs. 78.4% in 2018), a lower percentage of CRP survey respondents rated their communication with DRS to be Good or better (91.5% in 2015 vs. 87.2% in 2018).