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:
Quality
ARS refers individuals for Supported Employment services to one of 63 certified CRPs. Supported Employment services are provided to individuals with a most significant disability, including youth with a most significant disability. The services are individualized and customized, consistent with the unique preferences, interests, needs, supports (PINS), and informed choice by the individual. Supported Employment processes assist job seekers with job development, job placement, stabilization on the job, 90 days to successful employment and extended services funded by other entities or by ARS for a youth under 25. Supported Employment is a “place then train” model.
Scope of Services
ARS determines eligibility for SE services and CRPs bill based on meeting the Milestone requirements.
Milestone 1 – Referral/Job Development: CRPs accept the referral and provide assistance with career readiness activities (seeking employment, filling out applications, and interviewing skills, etc.) and assistance in the development, creation, or identification of paid integrated work in a community business or self-employment setting.
Milestone 2 – Job Placement: CRPs assist an individual in obtaining a job in a competitive integrated setting based on his/her interests, abilities, needs, and informed choice. The individual is placed in a competitive integrated employment setting with supports for a period of time, and is compensated commensurate with others in the same position at minimum wage or above.
Milestone 3 – Stabilization: This service time frame assures an individual has learned his/her job with supports to meet the demands of the integrated work environment in assurance of long-term job success. The individual works successfully for the minimum required 15 hours a week identified in the IPE. The individual must remain on the job 30 days or more to be considered stable, and the Job Coach reduces support to less than 20 percent of the individual's working hours. Extended services begin in stabilization with the identification of the funding source or by ARS, if a youth is under the age of 25. Youth receiving extended services funded by ARS will remain in this status until the service is no longer needed and the youth is considered successfully employed or until four years of this service expires or the youth reaches the age of 25.