Sentences with phrase «of vocational rehabilitation services»

Council of State Administrators of Vocational Rehabilitation (CSAVR) Serves as an advisory body to the Rehabilitation Services Administration (RSA) and other federal agencies in the development of policies and administration of programs affecting the lives of persons with disabilities and impacting the national public program of vocational rehabilitation services.

Although part of the Days of Action in Toronto and coalitions across the province to oppose massive cuts to public programs and social services, injured workers were unable to prevent the cuts to benefits and privatization of vocational rehabilitation services.

(7) contain (A) provisions relating to the establishment and maintenance of personnel standards, which are consistent with any State licensure laws and regulations, including provisions relating to the tenure, selection, appointment, and qualifications of personnel, and (B) provisions relating to the establishment and maintenance of minimum standards governing the facilities and personnel utilized in the provision of vocational REHABILITATION services, but the Secretary shall exercise no authority with respect to the selection, method of selection, tenure of office, or compensation of any individual employed in accordance with such provision;

(8) provide, at a minimum, for the provision of the vocational REHABILITATION services specified in clauses (1) through (3) of subsection (a) of section 103, and the remainder of such services specified in such section after full consideration of eligibility for similar benefits under any other program, except that, in the case of the vocational REHABILITATION services specified in clauses (4) and (5) of subsection (a) of such section, such consideration shall not be required where it would delay the provision of such services to any individual;

(12) provide satisfactory assurances to the Secretary that, in the provision of vocational REHABILITATION services, maximum utilization shall be made of public or other vocational or technical training facilities or other appropriate resources in the community;

(a) From each State's allotment under this part for any fiscal year (including any additional payment to it under section 110 (b)-RRB-, the Secretary shall pay to such State an amount equal to the Federal share of the * cost of vocational REHABILITATION services under the plan for such State approved under section 101, including expenditures for the administration of the State plan, except that the total of such payments to such State for such fiscal year may not exceed its allotment under subsection (a)(and its additional payment under subsection (b), if any) of section 110 for such year and such payments shall not be made in an amount which would result in a violation of the provisions of the State plan required by clause (17) of section 101 (a), and except that the amount otherwise payable to such State for such year under this section shall be reduced by the amount (if any) by which expenditures from non - Federal sources during such year under this title are less than expenditures under the State plan for the fiscal year ending June * 30, 1972, under the Vocational REHABILITATION ACT.

(G)(i) the provision of vocational REHABILITATION services to any individual for a total period not in excess of eighteen months for the purpose of determining whether such individual is a handicapped individual, a handicapped individual for whom a vocational goal is not possible or feasible (as determined in accordance with section 102 (c)-RRB-, or neither such individual; and (ii) an assessment, at least once in every ninety - day period during which such services are provided, of the results of the provision of such services to an individual to ascertain whether any of the determinations described in subclause (i) may be made.

(18) provide satisfactory assurances to the Secretary that the State agency designated pursuant to clause (1)(or each State agency if two are so designated) and any sole local agency administering the plan in a political subdivision of the State will take into account, in connection with matters of general policy arising in the administration of the plan, the views of * individuals and groups thereof who are recipients of vocational REHABILITATION services (or, in appropriate cases, their parents or guardians), working in * the field of vocational REHABILITATION, and providers of vocational REHABILITATION services; and

By partnering with the International Brain Injury Clubhouse Association, a collaborative international network of clubhouses, as well as local clinical programs, Service Source is prioritizing the inclusion of vocational rehabilitation services in brain injury management programs.»

(10) transportation in connection with the rendering of any vocational REHABILITATION service; and

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Gateway provides a wide array of services to adults, children and families, including around - the - clock psychiatric emergency services, psychiatric medication therapy services, outpatient counseling for individuals and families, specialized residential care for children and adolescents, permanent affordable housing for adults, supervised adult residential services, adult supported housing services, mental health services for adults with persistent mental health issues, a licensed school for children with emotional and behavioral difficulties, nationally recognized vocational and occupational rehabilitation services, a therapeutic outdoor recreation program for children and adolescents, a homeless shelter for families and residential substance abuse services, as well as individual and case management services for adults and children.

«Return to work of disability insurance beneficiaries who do and do not access state vocational rehabilitation agency services,» published in the

Dr. O'Neill, director of Employment and Disability Research at Kessler Foundation, is the primary author of, «Return to work of disability insurance beneficiaries who do and do not access state vocational rehabilitation agency services,» published in the Journal of Disability Policy Studies.

A former research and teaching assistant in the College of Education at Michigan State University, with prior experience in law enforcement, architecture, art and design before becoming involved in technological services to those with special needs, working in universities (including teaching at both Michigan State and Grand Valley State Universities), K - 12 schools, businesses, and vocational rehabilitation services.

Other areas of responsibility within the Department include workforce development, vocational rehabilitation, and blind services.

The Trump administration recently rescinded 72 pieces of guidance related to special education and vocational rehabilitation services for children and adults with disabilities.

(D) any other goods or services provided for the purposes of ascertaining the nature of the handicap and whether it may reasonably be expected that the * individual can benefit from vocational REHABILITATION services;

(A) designate a State agency as the sole State agency to administer the plan, or to supervise its administration by a local agency, except that (i) where under the State's law the State agency for the blind or other agency which provides assistance or services to the adult blind, is authorized to * provide vocational REHABILITATION services to such individuals, such agency may be designated as the sole State agency to administer the part of the plan * under which vocational REHABILITATION services are provided for the blind (or to supervise the administration of such part by a local agency) and a separate State agency may be designated as the sole State agency with respect to the rest of the State plan, and (ii) the Secretary, upon the request of a State, may authorize such agency to share funding and administrative responsibility with another agency of the State or with a local agency in order to permit such agencies to carry out a joint program to provide services to handicapped individuals, and may waive compliance with respect to vocational * REHABILITATION services furnished under such programs with the requirement of clause (4) of this subsection that the plan be in effect in all political subdivisions of that State;

(A) establish, on an appropriate regional basis, a multidisciplinary system of providing vocational and other REHABILITATION services, specifically designed to meet the special needs of individuals with spinal cord injuries, including acute care as well as periodic inpatient or outpatient followup and services;

(2) provide short - term training and instruction in technical matters * relating to vocational REHABILITATION services, including the establishment and maintenance of such research fellowships and traineeships, with such stipends and allowances (including travel and subsistence expenses), as he may deem necessary, except that no such training or instruction (or fellowship or scholarship) shall be provided any individual for any one course of study for a period in excess of four years, and such training, instruction, fellowships, * and traineeships may be in the fields of REHABILITATION medicine, * REHABILITATION nursing, REHABILITATION counseling, REHABILITATION social work, * REHABILITATION psychology, physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech pathology and audiology, prosthetics and orthotics, recreation for ill and handicapped individuals, and other specialized fields contributing to the * REHABILITATION of handicapped individuals; and

(13)(A) provide that vocational REHABILITATION services provided under the State plan shall be available to any civil employee of the United State disabled while in the performance of his duty on the same terms and conditions as apply to other persons, and

(a) From each State's allotment under this part for any fiscal year, the Secretary shall pay to such State or, at the option of the State agency designated pursuant to section 101 (a)(1), to a public or nonprofit organization or agency, a portion of the cost of planning, preparing for, and initiating special programs under the State plan approved pursuant to section 101 to expand vocational REHABILITATION services, including programs to initiate or expand such services to individuals with the most severe handicaps, or of special programs under such State plan to initiate or expand services to classes of handicapped individuals who have unusual and difficult * problems in connection with their REHABILITATION, particularly handicapped individuals who are poor, and responsibility for whose treatment, education, * and REHABILITATION is shared by the State agency designated in section 101 with other agencies.

(B)(i) that such unit shall be located at an organizational level and shall have an organizational status within such State agency comparable to that of other major organizational units of such agency, or (ii) in the case of an agency described in clause (1)(B)(ii), either that such unit shall be so located and have such status, or that the director of such unit shall be the executive officer of such State agency; except that, in the case of a State which has designated only one State agency pursuant to clause (1) of this subsection, such State may, if it so desires, assign responsibility for the part of the plan under which vocational REHABILITATION services are provided for the blind to one organizational unit of such agency, and assign responsibility for the rest of the plan to another organizational unit of such agency, with the provisions of this clause applying separately to each of such units; provide for financial participation by the State, or if the State so elects, by the State and local agencies to meet the amount of the non - Federal share; provide that the plan shall be in effect in all political subdivisions, except that in the case of any activity which, in the judgment of the Secretary, is likely to assist in promoting the vocational REHABILITATION of substantially larger numbers of handicapped individuals or groups of handicapped individuals the Secretary may waive compliance with the requirement herein that the plan be in effect in all political subdivisions of the State to the extent and for such period as may be provided in accordance with regulations prescribed by him, but only if the non - Federal share of the * cost of such vocational REHABILITATION services is met from funds made available by a local agency (including, to the extent permitted by such regulations, funds contributed to such agency by a private agency, organization, or individual);

The term «handicapped individual» means any individual who (A) has a physical or mental disability which for such individual constitutes or results in a substantial handicap to employment and (B) can reasonably be expected to benefit in terms of employability from vocational REHABILITATION services provided pursuant to titles I and III of this ACT.

(b) In making such grants or contracts, funds made available for any year will be utilized to provide a balanced program of assistance to meet the medical, vocational, and other personnel training needs of both public and private REHABILITATION programs and institutions, to include projects in REHABILITATION medicine, REHABILITATION nursing, REHABILITATION counseling, REHABILITATION social work, REHABILITATION psychology, physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech pathology and audiology, workshop and facility administration, prosthetics and orthotics, specialized personnel in providing services to blind and deaf individuals, recreation for ill and handicapped individuals, and other fields contributing to the REHABILITATION of handicapped individuals, including homebound and institutionalized individuals and handicapped individuals with limited English - speaking ability.

(3) vocational and other training services for handicapped individuals, which shall include personal and vocational adjustment, books, and other training materials, and services to the families of such individuals as are * necessary to the adjustment or REHABILITATION of such individuals: Provided, That no training services in institutions of higher education shall be paid for with funds under this title unless maximum efforts have been made to secure grant assistance, in whole or in part, from other sources to pay for such training;

Nothing in the preceding sentence of this paragraph or in section 101 shall be construed to prevent the local agency from utilizing another local public or nonprofit agency to provide vocational * REHABILITATION services: Provided.

(B) provide that the State agency so designated to administer or supervise the administration of the State plan, or (if there are two State agencies designated under subclause (A) of this clause) to supervise or administer the part of the State plan that does not relate to services for the blind, shall be (i) a State agency primarily concerned with vocational REHABILITATION, or vocational and other REHABILITATION, of handicapped individuals, (ii) the State agency administering or supervising the administration of education or vocational education in the State, or (iii) a State agency which includes at least two other major organizational units each of which administers one or more of the major public education, public health, public welfare, or labor programs of the State; provide, except in the case of agencies described in clause (1)(B)(i)-

(c) The Secretary shall also insure that (1) in developing and carrying out individualized written REHABILITATION program required by section 101 in the case of each handicapped individual primary emphasis is placed upon the determination and achievement of a vocational goal for such individual, (2) a decision that such an individual is not capable of achieving such a goal and thus not eligible for vocational REHABILITATION services provided with assistance under this part, is made only in full consultation with such individual (or, in appropriate cases, his parents or guardians), and only upon the certification, as an amendment to such written program, that the * evaluation of REHABILITATION potential has demonstrated beyond any reasonable doubt that such individual is not then capable of achieving such a goal, and (3) any such decision shall be reviewed at least annually in accordance with the procedure and criteria established in this section.

(3) to aid in the conduct of related activities which will expand or improve the services for or help improve public understanding of the problems of deaf - blind individuals; the Secretary, subject to the provisions of section 306, is authorized to enter into an agreement with any public or nonprofit agency or organization for payment by the United States of all or part of the costs of the establishment and operation, including construction and * equipment, of a center for vocational REHABILITATION of handicapped individuals who are both deaf and blind, which center shall be known as the National Center for Deaf - Blind Youths and Adults.

(c) The Civil Service Commission, after consultation with the Committee, shall develop and recommend to the Secretary for referral to the appropriate State agencies, policies and procedures which will facilitate the hiring, placement, and advancement in employment of individuals who have received REHABILITATION services under State vocational REHABILITATION programs, veterans» programs, or any other program for handicapped individuals, including the promotion of job opportunities for such individuals.

There shall be included in the annual report to the Congress required by section 404 a full report on the research and training activities carried out under this title and the extent to which such research and training has contributed directly to the development of methods, procedures, devices, and trained personnel to assist in the provision of vocational * REHABILITATION services to handicapped individuals and those with the most * severe handicaps under this ACT.

(b)(1) The Secretary is authorized to make grants to States and public or nonprofit organizations and agencies to pay up to 90 per centum of the cost of projects for providing vocational training services to handicapped individuals, especially those with the most severe handicaps, in public or * nonprofit REHABILITATION facilities.

(b) Not later than June 30, 1974, the Secretary shall report to the Congress his findings and recommendations, including recommendations for additional legislation, with respect to the study required by this section, which report shall include recommendations with respect to allotment of Federal funds among the States and the Federal share of the cost of furnishing vocational REHABILITATION services by the States.

(C) there shall be compliance with regulations the Secretary shall prescribe designed to assure that no State will reduce its efforts in providing other vocational REHABILITATION services (other than for the establishment of REHABILITATION facilities) because its plan includes such provisions for construction;

To support your case, we retain the services of medical doctors who provide expert analysis and testimony; non-medical experts who can determine your financial losses; and vocational rehabilitation experts who determine the costs associated with occupational retraining.

Additionally, the services of a vocational rehabilitation expert or occupational therapist may be needed to estimate the financial impact of an accident victim having to retrain for a new job or rehab to return to an existing job.

Because our client received vocational rehabilitative services and was placed in a work environment as part of that rehabilitation, the defendant's insurance company took the position that he was able to be gainfully employed.

A personalized approach to accessing rehabilitation services will ensure that the individual can take advantage of all of the vocational and recreational options that technology has made available to those with reduced mobility.

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Medical care, temporary disability benefits, permanent disability benefits, vocational rehabilitation services, and death benefits make five types of Workers» Compensation benefits.

Assist clients with disabilities in the process of selecting / obtaining the necessary training and related services for their vocational rehabilitation

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Suncoast Communities, Albany, KY 6/2011 to Present Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor • Assess clients to determine their disabilities or dependencies • Create and implement plans to rehabilitate clients according to their physical and mental conditions • Provide counseling to clients around choosing, obtaining and obtaining employment and academics • Coordinate educational support services for client looking to get back into academics • Facilitate job placement by assisting clients with application documents and getting them in touch with various organizations • Conduct outreach programs to maintain a solid data bank of interested placement organizations • Make referrals for therapeutic work programs after consulting with patients» physicians and psychologists • Monitor client progress through constant evaluations and re-evaluate clients that may be slipping • Counsel and assist clients through rehabilitation procedures and adjust programs as needed • Create and maintain records of clients in a safe and confidential manner

Employees who have had industrial injuries may be entitled to receive vocational rehabilitation benefits if they are not accommodated by their employer and we are equipped to provide services within the scope of the benefit system requirements.

(iv) A social worker: an individual with at least a bachelor's degree in human services or related field (social work, psychology, psychiatric rehabilitation, sociology, counseling, vocational rehabilitation, human services counseling or other degree deemed equivalent to those described) from an accredited college and with at least one year of clinical experience providing direct services to individuals with a diagnosis of mental illness.

• Qualified to assess needs for additional assistance, including rehabilitation, financial aid and vocational training • Proven ability to support and monitor clients as they progress through designated employment service plans • Highly skilled in conducting exit interviews and collecting client evaluations of work or project experiences

Professional Experience Fraser Organization (City, ST) 2007 — Present Rehabilitation Specialist • Provide comprehensive vocational rehabilitation services to individuals who have physical and mental challenges • Develop individualized rehabilitation plans based upon the distinct challenges and potential of each patient • Conduct a comprehensive patient assessment and provide vocational guidance and counseling • Coordinate vocational placement and follow - up services to ensure long - term patient success • Utilize extensive administrative, CPR, first aid, and medical equipment training as needed • Perform all services with compassion, professionalism, and integrity

In order to ensure that, they offer a broad range of brain and spinal cord injury recovery and rehabilitation services including: medical, physical, cognitive, occupational, psychosocial, behavioral, vocational, educational, and recreational.

CONCLUSIONS: The results of this replication confirm the continuing value of the three - factor model for predicting the QOL of adults with MS, and demonstrate the importance of medical, mental health, and vocational rehabilitation interventions and services in promoting QOL.

Dr. Russell has over 18 years of experience working in the human service / counseling field in several capacities and she has developed and facilitated county - wide training for healthcare professionals, statewide staff training initiatives for correctional probation officer training academies and region - wide staff development / training for state vocational rehabilitation counselors.