Below are his comments on vocational rehabilitation and Marion. My job title is Senior Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor with the state VR agency and I work mostly with people who have psychiatric disorders. I open their case, conduct an initial interview, process medical and psychological information, determine eligibility, counsel and plan for a job, arrange services, and hope that everything goes smoothly after that - which it seldom does.
Every case is so different that there is no typical course of events.
I get new clients both when clients refer themselves and when other agencies clients. There is a lot of reviewing of plans with clients and the support service providers in the community. I find myself giving quite a bit of advice to potential clients on what is necessary to get into the VR system. I've been doing this for 26 years, twenty years for VR and six years previously in a mental health facility. My caseload runs about 110 people.