Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 32 - Rehabilitation And Disabilities › Part 22 - Office of Vocational Rehabilitation for the Blind, Resource Guide › Section 32-22-3.19 - Supported Employment Program › Section 32-22-3.19.1 - SE Terminology

Current through June 25, 2024
Competitive Employment means work---
(i) In the competitive labor market that is
				performed on a full-time or part-time basis in an integrated setting;
				and
(ii) For which an individual is
				compensated at or above the minimum wage, but not less than the customary wage
				and level of benefits paid by the employer for the same or similar work
				performed by individuals who are not disabled.
Supported employment requires no more than eight individuals
				  with disabilities be clustered in an employment setting.
Extended Employment means --- work in a non-integrated or
				  sheltered setting for a public or private nonprofit agency or organization that
				  provides compensation in accordance with the Fair Labor Standards Act. Extended
				  employment may also be used as a support service to enable an individual to
				  continue to train or prepare for competitive employment, unless the individual
				  through informed choice chooses to remain in extended employment.
Extended Services are on-going supports which are provided to
				  an individual who is successfully rehabilitated into employment. These services
				  are provided by third-party entities, and they are needed in order to support
				  and maintain an individual with a most significant disability in supported
				  employment.
Integrated Work Setting means job sites where most co-workers
				  are not disabled and individuals with disabilities are not part of a work group
				  of other individuals with disabilities. Supported employment services will
				  include placement in an integrated work setting for the maximum number of hours
				  possible based on the unique strengths, resources, priorities, concerns,
				  abilities, capabilities, interests and informed choice of individuals with the
				  most significant disabilities.
Job Trainers provide one-on-one intensive job skills training
				  and support, both on and off the job, for individuals with mental retardation,
				  severe learning disabilities, cerebral palsy and other developmental
				  disabilities and mental illness. This training includes social skills, along
				  with other training that would be essential to a person with a most significant
				  disability obtaining and maintaining a job. Job trainers are hired on a
				  part-time, temporary, as needed basis.
Natural Supports are those formal and informal mechanisms
				  existing in a work environment that can be drawn upon to increase and sustain
				  an employee's performance through the use of active assistance and/or approval
				  or sanctioning of a worker's achievements.
Person Centered Planning (PCP) is a process of profiling and
				  planning with an individual in order to increase self-management opportunities,
				  community involvement and life satisfaction for the individual. A plan of
				  action is adopted in order to determine and achieve goals by addressing the
				  needs, strengths and experiences of the individual.
Successful Rehabilitation occurs when the individual
				  maintains a supported employment placement for 90 days after making the
				  transition to permanent employment.
Support means any appropriate service such as job site
				  training, short-term transportation assistance, family support, or any other
				  service necessary for job success, throughout the "term of employment".
Supported Employment means competitive work in an integrated
				  work setting for individuals with the most significant disabilities.
Transitional Employment is a series of temporary job
				  placements in competitive work, in integrated work settings with on-going
				  supports until job permanency is achieved for individuals with Serious Mental
				  Illness.
Vocational Training Instructors (VTI) are responsible, in
				  coordination with the supported employment counselor, for job development and
				  placement for supported employment eligible clients. Although the supported
				  employment counselor has the primary responsibility of securing a trainer, VTIs
				  primarily handle the hiring of trainers and day-to-day management of the
				  placement and trainer.