Sabrina Cunliffe, MS, CRC Session Overview Becoming a VR vendor for - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Erica A. Brown, MS Sabrina Cunliffe, MS, CRC

Session Overview

• Becoming a VR vendor for Job Placement Services
• Ensuring a person receives quality Career

Exploration/Discovery

• When and how to refer someone to VR
• Preparing for the VR Intake Process
• Understanding the VR Eligibility Process
• Your involvement in Individual Plan of Employment ( IPE)

development

• Providing Job Placement Services
• Long Term Support Planning

Becoming a VR Vendor

• Make contact with your local VR branch manager and

discuss the services you provide

• Ask VR branch manager to add your agency to the vendor

list

TALKING POINTS

• Job development versus job coaching (stabilization point)
• VR training options
• Other VR services ( Disability Adjustment, assessments,

skills training etc.)

• MQ’s to provide services

Job Placement Services

*Referral ($100.00) *Proposal- Employment/Retention ( $200.00) *Proposal- Retention Services Only ( $200.00) *Job Placement- Standard ($1000.00) *Job Placement- Supported/Customized ( $1,500.00) *Job Retention- Standard ( $1,500.00) *Job Retention- Supported/Customized ( $2000.00) *Job Coaching ($40/hr) * This will change in October

Quality Career Exploration through Path to Employment Services and “DISCOVERY”

Path to Employment Service Examples

(Consider a Person Centered Plan to help develop these goal areas)

• Volunteer a few times a week
• Take a class
• Join a social club
• Provide targeted skill development specific to job interests
• Learn transportation routes
• Complete benefits planning
• General community inclusion
• Join a community job seekers club
• Work on disability awareness and self-advocacy skills

Is a time-limited process by which an individual’s planning team assists an individual to identify his/her interests, strengths, and abilities relating to employment, with the goal of attaining and maintaining employment in an integrated employment setting, including self-employment, prior to job development for an individual when establishing a vocational goal. *Get Discovery Certified ASAP! *

“Discovery”

The VR Process

ID/DD-VR EMPLOYMENT PROCESS MAP

Referral to VR Intake Appointment Plan Development ( IPE) Eligibility Determination Presumed Eligible VR Plan Implementation Job Development, Assessments and Job Coaching Authorized Transfer to Ongoing Support (ODDS) VR Closure Ongoing support through ODDS

VR Status

APPLICATION

• Meet with a VR

Counselor (VRC) for an intake appointment

• Give your VRC your

completed Personal Information form, if available, take: CDP, ISP, and Discovery Profile

• Discuss your disability

and problems with getting or keeping jobs

• Sign an application and
• ther forms to open a

VR file & send for records

ELIGIBILITY

Work with your VRC to discuss & evaluate your barriers to employment

• Assess your unique

interests, needs, capacities & concerns to develop a realistic and achievable job goal

• Explore the labor

market (if not currently working)-- narrow your choices for a job goal

PLAN (IPE)

Identify a Job Goal to get

• r keep a job
• Work with your VRC to

determine what services will be needed to achieve the goal

• Develop a written

Individualized Plan for Employment (IPE) to get

• r keep the job
• Follow your IPE until

you’ve obtained or maintained your job goal EMPLOYMENT (Closure)

• Found or kept a job!
• Maintained

employment for 90 days!

• SUCESSFULLY

REHABILITATED!

• VR file closed
• Transition to on-

going support

Referring a Person to VR

Pre-referral Considerations

• Career Development Plan has been completed
• Career Development Plan & ISP reflect the person has

chosen the goal of integrated, community employment

• County Services Coordinators/ Brokerage Agent supports

and facilitates referral process to VR

• Discovery Profile in process or completed
• 2 or 3 general categories of employment the individual is

interested in pursuing

• Who will support the person in coordinating their VR

process

The VR Intake Process

 Must bring completed Service Questionnaire  Required to bring documents that prove the person is

legally able to work in the US (I-9 docs)

 The authorization of Discovery and the VR referral

should happen simultaneously. Bring the Discovery Profile if it is completed

 If available, bring medical documentation, current

medical orders including diagnosis, treatment plans, medical assessments, educational assessments, etc.

The VR Eligibility Process

Eligible

Documented disability Disability related barriers to employment are identified VR services expected to reduce/eliminate barriers

The Individual Plan of Employment ( IPE) Development Process

VR counselors must address the following questions in the IPE:

 Employment Goal  Reason for selecting this Employment Goal  Minimum number of hours the person will accept per week  Discuss transferable skills, client characteristics and other

factors that were used to determine the employment goal

 Rationale for selection of Job Goal: Describe the

individual's strengths, resources, priorities, concerns, abilities, career interests and informed choice relating to the job goal.

Continued IPE development

 Discuss Labor Market Information  Discuss job stabilization. What will it look like?  What steps are needed to reach the employment goal?  Needed Plan Services  How are we going to measure progress?

Long Term Support Planning

 Braided services – decide with team what services are best

for the person and who would provide services long term

 Define job stabilization so the team knows and agrees  Develop a plan for transition to ongoing long-term

support

 Systematic Instruction and fading plan

Questions

Sabrina Cunliffe Erica A. Brown Vocational Rehabilitation Partnerships in Community Living, Inc DHS- MacKenzie Center PO Box 129 2885 Chad Dr. Monmouth, OR 97361 Eugene, OR 97408 503-838-2403 ext. 375 541-684-2447 ebrown@pclpartnership.org sabrina.cunliffe@state.or.us