New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 12 - LABOR AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT › Chapter 45 - DIVISION OF VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION SERVICES › Subchapter 1 - PROCEDURES AND STANDARDS › Section 12:45-1.12 - Vocational rehabilitation services

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 14, July 15, 2024
(a) Vocational rehabilitation services are any goods or services necessary to render an individual with a disability employable, including, but not limited to, the following:
1. An assessment for determining eligibility and vocational rehabilitation needs by qualified personnel, including, if appropriate, an assessment by personnel skilled in rehabilitation technology;
2. Counseling, guidance, and work-related placement services for individuals with disabilities, including job search assistance, placement assistance, job retention services, personal assistance services, and follow-up, follow-along, and specific postemployment services necessary to assist such individuals to maintain, regain, or advance in employment;
3. Vocational and other training services for individuals with disabilities, which shall include personal and vocational adjustment, books, or other training materials, and such services to the families of such individuals as are necessary to the adjustment or rehabilitation of such individuals, except that no training services in institutions of higher education shall be paid for unless maximum efforts have been made to secure grant assistance, in whole or in part, from other sources to pay for such training;
4. Physical and mental restoration services, including, but not limited to:
i. Corrective surgery or therapeutic treatment necessary to correct or substantially modify a physical or mental condition which is stable or slowly progressive and constitutes an impediment to employment, but is of such nature that such correction or modification may reasonably be expected to eliminate or reduce such impediment to employment within a reasonable length of time;
ii. Necessary hospitalization in connection with surgery or treatment;
iii. Prosthetic and orthotic devices;
iv. Diagnosis and treatment for mental and emotional disorders by qualified personnel in accordance with State licensure laws; and
v. Eyeglasses and visual services, including visual training and the examination and services necessary for the prescription and provision of eyeglasses, contact lenses, microscopic lenses, telescopic lens, and other special visual aids, prescribed by personnel that are qualified in accordance with State licensure laws;
5. Maintenance for additional costs incurred while participating in rehabilitation services;
6. Interpreter services for individuals who are deaf;
7. Occupational licenses, tools, equipment, and initial stocks and supplies;
8. Transportation, including adequate training in the use of public transportation vehicles and systems, in connection with the rendering of any vocational rehabilitation service after:
i. All transportation options are explored; and
ii. The most reasonable transportation service (excluding purchase or lease of a vehicle which will not be considered) meeting the consumer's need is identified;
9. Telecommunications, sensory, and other technological aids and devices;
10. Rehabilitation technology services;
11. Referral and other services designed to assist individuals with disabilities in securing needed services from other agencies;
12. Transition services that promote or facilitate the accomplishment of long-term rehabilitation goals and intermediate rehabilitation objectives;
13. On-the-job or other related personal assistance services provided while an individual with a disability is receiving vocational rehabilitation services in this section;
14. Supported employment services;
15. 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 eligible individuals who are pursuing self-employment or telecommuting or establishing a small business operation as an employment outcome; and
16. Other goods and services that can reasonably be expected to benefit an individual with a disability in terms of an employment outcome.