The Vocational Rehabilitation Program is mandated and regulated by the federal government while being administered through state government. Find out more information about the VR Division's federal parent agency, the Rehabilitation Services Administration . Below is information from the RSA website. The VR program provides a wide range of services and job training to people with disabilities who want to work. At present, the VR system has more than one million eligible individuals, two-thirds of them are severely disabled.
Priority is given to people with the most severe disabilities.
The State VR agencies assist persons with disabilities to locate employment by developing and maintaining close relationships with local businesses. Furthermore, they assist persons served to become tax paying citizens and to reduce their reliance on entitlement programs. According to a 1994 Harris poll, there are approximately 43 million Americans with disabilities. Approximately 66 percent of those individuals of working age are unemployed, whereas, only 20 percent of non-disabled persons are unemployed. To help the population of unemployed persons with disabilities join the workforce, State VR agencies must provide comprehensive rehabilitation services that go way beyond those found in routine job training programs.