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of Vocational Rehabilitation
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Vocational
rehabilitation services DVR may provide include:
- Assessment for determining eligibility and VR needs.
Counseling and guidance, including information and support
services to assist a consumer in exercising informed
choice.
- Referral and other services to secure needed services
from other agencies Job-related services, including
job search and placement assistance, job retention services,
follow-up services, and follow-along services.
- Vocational and other training services , including
the provision of personal and vocational adjustment
services, books, tools, and other training materials,
except that no training services provided at an institution
of higher education shall be paid for with funds under
this title unless maximum efforts have been made by
DVR and the consumer to secure grant assistance, in
whole or in part, from other sources to pay for such
training.
To the extent that
financial support is not readily available from a source
such as health insurance or through comparable services
and benefits, other than DVR, diagnosis and treatment
of physical and mental impairments, including:
- Corrective surgery or therapeutic treatment necessary
to correct or substantially modify a physical or mental
condition that constitutes a substantial impediment
to employment, but is of such a nature that such correction
or modification may reasonably be expected to eliminate
or reduce such impediment to employment within a reasonable
length of time;
- Necessary hospitalization in connection with the surgery
or treatment;
- Prosthetic and orthotic devices;
- Eyeglasses and visual services as prescribed by qualified
personnel and who are selected by the consumer;
- Special services (including transplantation and dialysis),
artificial kidneys, and supplies necessary for the treatment
of consumers with end-stage renal disease; and,
- Diagnosis and treatment for mental and emotional disorders
by qualified personnel who meet State licensure laws.
- Maintenance for additional costs incurred while participating
in an assessment for determining eligibility and VR
needs or while receiving services under a plan for employment;
- Transportation , including adequate training in the
use of public transportation vehicles and systems, that
is provided in connection with the provision of any
other service described in this section and needed by
the consumer to achieve an employment outcome;
- On-the-job or other related personal assistance services
provided while a consumer is receiving other services
described in this section; interpreter services provided
by qualified personnel for consumers who are deaf or
hard of hearing, and reader services for consumers who
are determined to be blind, after an examination by
qualified personnel who meet State licensure laws:
- Rehabilitation teaching services, and orientation
and mobility services , for consumers who are blind;
- Occupational licenses, tools, equipment, and initial
stocks and supplie ;
- Technical assistance and other consultation services
to conduct market analyses, develop business plans,
and otherwise provide resources, to the extent such
resources are authorized to be provided through the
statewide workforce investment system, to consumers
who are pursuing self-employment or telecommuting or
establishing a small business operation as an employment
outcome; Rehabilitation technology, including telecommunications,
sensory, and other technological aids and devices
- Transition services for students with disabilities
, that facilitate the achievement of the employment
outcome identified in the plan for employment.
- Supported employment services including ongoing support
services and other appropriate services needed to support
and maintain a consumer with a most significant disability
in supported employment that are provided singly or
in combination, and are organized and made available
to assist the consumer to achieve competitive employment.
Supported employment services are provided based on
a determination of the needs of the consumer and specified
in a plan for employment. Supported employment
services are provided for up to 18 months unless, under
special circumstances the consumer and the VR counselor
agree to extend the time in order to achieve the rehabilitation
objectives identified in the plan for employment;
- Services to the family of a consumer necessary to
assist the consumer to achieve an employment outcome;
and
- Specific post-employment services necessary to assist
a consumer to retain, regain, or advance in employment.
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Denise Cesar
Consumer Case Coordinator
DVR
Sheboygan Job Center
3620 Wilgus Avenue
Sheboygan, WI 53081
Phone: (920) 208-5850
Toll Free: 1-888-387-0408
Fax: (920) 459-3855
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Persons with physical
or mental disabilities that prevent them from keeping or
obtaining a job. |
