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

“Discovery” 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! *

The VR Process

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

VR Status APPLICATION ELIGIBILITY PLAN (IPE) EMPLOYMENT (Closure) • Meet with a VR Work with your VRC Identify a Job Goal to get Counselor (VRC) for an to discuss & evaluate or keep a job intake appointment • Found or kept a job! your barriers to • Work with your VRC to employment • Give your VRC your • Maintained determine what services completed Personal • Assess your unique employment for 90 will be needed to achieve Information form, if interests, needs, days! the goal available, take: CDP, ISP, capacities & • SUCESSFULLY and Discovery Profile concerns to develop • Develop a written REHABILITATED! a realistic and Individualized Plan for • Discuss your disability achievable job goal • VR file closed Employment (IPE) to get and problems with getting or keeping jobs or keep the job • Explore the labor • Transition to on- market (if not • Sign an application and • Follow your IPE until going support currently working)-- other forms to open a you’ve obtained or narrow your choices VR file & send for maintained your for a job records job goal goal

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

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