Sentences with phrase «vocational rehabilitation agency»

This March 13, 2018 webinar discusses how vocational rehabilitation agency's (VR's) willingness to pay for a client's post-secondary education can sometimes be a major point of contention.

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.

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

The Massachusetts Rehabilitation Commission is developing a new, customized, best practice model for disability employment that could be replicated by vocational rehabilitation agencies and community rehabilitation providers across the country with the goal of increasing employment, reducing reliance on public benefits, and promoting self - sufficiency through earnings and preventative health benefits.

(e)(1) The Secretary is authorized, directly or by contract with State vocational REHABILITATION agencies or experts or consultants or groups thereof, to provide technical assistance (A) to REHABILITATION facilities, and (B) for the purpose of removal og architectural and transportation barriers, to any public or nonprofit agency, institution, organization or facility.

These counselors work in a variety of settings, including state and community - based vocational rehabilitation agencies, public schools, hospitals, independent living centers and job training centers.

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It can also be helpful for students, families, vocational rehabilitation and developmental disability agency personnel, and community rehabilitation providers.

Families, vocational rehabilitation and developmental disability agency personnel, and community rehabilitation providers can help ensure these policies are implemented.

(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) 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);

(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

The term «local agency» means an agency of a unit of general local government or of an Indian tribal organization (or combination of such units or organizations) which has an agreement with the State agency designated pursuant to section 101 (a)(1) to conduct a vocational REHABILITATION program under the supervision of such State agency in accordance with the State plan approved under section 101.

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)-

(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.

(A) that the State agency designated pursuant to paragraph (1)(or each State agency if two are so designated) shall include a vocational REHABILITATION bureau, division, or other organizational unit which (i) is primarily concerned with vocational REHABILITATION, or vocational and other REHABILITATION, of handicapped individuals, and is responsible for the vocational REHABILITATION program of such State agency, (ii) has a full - time director, and (iii) has a staff employed on such REHABILITATION work of such organizational unit all or substantially all of whom are employed full time on such work; and;

(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.

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 rehabilitationVocational 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 rehabilitationvocational rehabilitation services.