Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 32 - Rehabilitation And Disabilities › Part 10 - MDRS VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION PROGRAM POLICY MANUAL › Sec2 32-10-8-8 - Services › Section 32-10-8-8.0 - Services For Individuals Who Have Applied For Or Been Determined Eligible For VR Services

Current through June 25, 2024
As appropriate to the VR needs of each individual and consistent with each individual's IPE, OVR/OVRB/OBD must ensure that the following VR services are available. These services are to assist the individual with a disability in preparing for, securing, retaining, advancing in or regaining an employment outcome that is consistent with his/her unique strengths, resources, priorities, concerns, abilities, capabilities, interests, and informed choice: 76
1. Assessments for determining eligibility,
				priority for services, and VR needs by qualified personnel, including, if
				appropriate, assessments by personnel skilled in rehabilitation
				technology,
2. VR counseling and
				guidance, including information and support services to assist an individual in
				exercising inform choice,
3.
				Referral and other services necessary to assist applicants and eligible
				individuals to secure needed services from other agencies, including other
				components of the statewide workforce development system and to advise those
				individuals about client assistance programs,
4. Physical and mental restoration services,
				to the extent financial support is not readily available from another source
				other than the agency (such as through a comparable service or
				benefit),
5. Vocational and other
				training services, including personal and vocational adjustment training,
				advanced training; books, tools, and other training materials, except that no
				training services provided at an institution of higher education may be paid
				for by the agency unless maximum efforts have been made by the counselor and
				the individual to secure grant assistance in whole or in part from other
				sources to pay for that training,
6. Maintenance for additional costs incurred
				while participating in an assessment for determining eligibility and VR needs
				or while receiving services under an IPE,
7. 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 individual to achieve an employment
				outcome,
8. VR services to family
				members of an applicant or eligible individual if necessary to enable the
				applicant or eligible individual to achieve an employment outcome,
9. Interpreter services, including but not
				limited to: foreign language, sign language and oral interpreter services, for
				individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing and tactile interpreting services
				for individuals who are deaf-blind provided by qualified personnel,
10. Reader services, rehabilitation teaching
				services and orientation and mobility services for individuals who are
				blind,
11. Job-related services,
				including job search and placement assistance, job retention services,
				follow-up services, and follow-along services. Business development services,
				internships, community based job tryout, on-the-job training, Work Opportunity
				Tax Credit, and employability skills training,
12. Supported employment services,
13. On-the-job or other related personal
				assistance services provided while an individual is receiving other services
				described in this section,
14.
				Specific post-employment services necessary to assist an individual with a
				disability to, retain, regain, or advance in employment,
15. Occupational licenses, tools, equipment,
				and initial stock and supplies,
16.
				Rehabilitation technology services including vehicular modifications,
				telecommunications, sensory and other technological aids and devices,
17. Transition services for students and
				youth with disabilities, that facilitate the transition from school to
				postsecondary life, such as achievement of an employment outcome in competitive
				integrated employment, or pre-employment transition services for
				students,
18. Technical assistance
				and other consultation services to conduct market analysis, develop business
				plans, and otherwise provide resources, to the extent such resources are
				authorized to be provided through the statewide workforce development system,
				to eligible individuals who are pursuing self-employment or telecommuting or
				establishing a small business operation as an employment outcome,
19. Customized employment; services designed
				to meet the specific abilities of the individual and the business needs of the
				employer, and
20. Other goods and
				services determined necessary for the individual with a disability to achieve
				an employment outcome.