Planning My Way to Work

Meet at the Mountain

April 10th, 2015

Purpose: To engage in

conversation of transition planning

early and often

Objectives:

Learn about accessing and blending

services for transition aged students

Discuss planning forward for students

Learning how to use the Transition Manual

to help families and students access

supports for transition

Strong components of

Transition

Parent Preparation

Student

Preparation

Interagency

Collaboration

Transition Age Student

Ages

14-18

High School

Ages

19-21

Post-High School

Ages

21+

Beyond School Services

Student and Parent

Preparation

• Assist families in learning about the accessing

transition services

• Providing families an overview of transition

information, a timeline of service access, list of

transition related activities……..

• How to connect student and family to non-

school transition related services….. Early

• Provides targeted information for the

transition process

Self-Determination Talking about yourself

Choice and decision making

Leading IEP meetings

Speaking up (Self-Advocacy)

Taking responsibility

Giving feedback

Self-regulation

Goal setting and planning

Interagency Collaboration

Basic overview of Adult Service Agencies and eligibility criteria

Understand the roles and responsibilities of community partners, especially when overlapping with school services

Learn how to plan forward to provide a more seamless transition

Your Transition Planning Team

Person Centered Planning• Provides a way for your

team to think about how they can best support you

• Fosters positive working relations hips with your team

• Improves assessment and planning activities for the team

• Provides direction for achieving goals

• Identifies natural community connections to reach goals

Transition Services from Education

Transition Services help students:

• Move from school to work

• Further education

• Adult services

• Independent living

• Other community participation

Individualized Education Plan

(IEP)

Includes:

Age-Appropriate Assessments

Measurable Goals

Transition Services

Course of Study

Annual IEP Goals

Involvement of other agencies

School Transition Services

Work-related transition services

Summary of PerformanceWhat is it:

It summarizes the students:

Academic Achievement and Functional Performance

Post secondary Goals

Recommendations to Assist the Student in Achieving the established Post secondary Goals

Adult Developmental

Disabilities Services

Offers services that help people meet their goals.

These services can support:

- Living

- Working

- Community Inclusion

Overview of eligibility

You may be eligible if:

You have an intellectual or developmental disability; and

This disability makes everyday living skills difficult

Your disability is not caused by mental disorder, sensory impairment, personality disorder, substance abuse, learning disability, or attention deficit hyperactive disorder

Service Coordinator/Personal

Agent

Once eligible for Adult Services, a student goes though choice advising, and completes the level of care (LOC), functional needs assessment and service planning. This is completed by a:

Service Coordinator at CDDP or

Personal Agent (PA) at a local support service brokerage

Differences between CDDP/Brokerage

Individual Support Plan (ISP) and Career

Development Plan (CDP)

• An ISP describes: • Your needs, goals,

choices, and services for the next year…

• Your day and supports needed

• Your plan for reaching your goals

• A CDP explores and identifies • Your employment goals

• Your plan for supports in reaching goals

Tell your SC or PA you want to work

ISP team meeting and career planning

Discovery and Career Exploration

Referral to VR/Individual Plan for Employment

Job Development

Get a job!

Job coaching if needed

Annual ISP and career planning

Services provided for adults

K Plan:

Attendant care

Residential Services

Transportation

Respite Care

Assistive Tech

Behavior Support

Skill Development

Training- managing Personal Support

Workers

Services provided for adults:

Waiver services

Supported Employment

Discovery and Employment Path

Case Management

Vehicle Modifications

Family Training

Vocational Rehabilitation Mission

“To assist Oregonians with disabilitiesto achieve and maintain employment and

independence.”

We believe individuals that experience disabilities are:

-Motivated to work

-Capable, talented, and can achieve on par with their peers

-Are unique and have different needs and goals

-Deserve the opportunity to achieve their potential

-Have skills that are needed in the world of work

Eligibility Criteria

Eligible

Documented disability

Disability related

barriers to employment

are identified

VR services expected to reduce/eliminate barriers

Eligibility Criteria

Individuals experiencing a documented disability

The disability is a barrier to employment

There is a service VR can provide to address barrier

The individual wants to work

Services provided for students

APPLICATION

• Meet with a VR Counselor (VRC) for an intake appointment

• Give your VRC your completed Personal Information form

• Discuss your disability and problems with getting or keeping jobs

• Sign an application and other forms to open a VR file & send for records

ELIGIBILITY

• Work with your VRC to discuss & evaluate your barriers to employment

• Assess your unique interests, needs, capacities & concerns to develop a realistic and achievable job goal

• Explore the labor market (if not currently working)--narrow your choices for a job goal

PLAN

• Identify a Job Goal to get or keep a job

•Work with your VRC to determine what services will be needed to achieve the goal

•Develop a written Individualized Plan for Employment (IPE) to get or keep the job

• Follow your IPE until you’ve obtained or maintained your job goal

EMPLOYMENT (Closure)

• Found or kept a job!

• Maintained employment for 90 days!

• SUCESSFULLY REHABILITATED!

• VR file closed

Vocational Rehabilitation and

Workforce Innovation and

Opportunity Act (WIOA)

Signed July 2014- Designed to help job

seekers access employment, education,

training, and support services.

Requires states to strategically align

Workforce Development programs

Requires schools and VR offices to work

together to provide “Pre-employment

transition services”

Social Security Benefits

SSDI- monthly cash benefit paid to people

who are unable to work at least one year

or more due to disability.

SSI- monthly cash benefit paid to people

with disabilities to help meet basic needs

for food, clothing and shelter.

Benefits Planning

Two benefits counseling programs:

Plan for Work

The Work Incentives Network

______________________

Impairment-Related Work Expenses (IRWE)

Plan for Achieving Self-Support (PASS)

http://www.oregon.gov/dhs/employment/VR/WIN/Pages/Servi

ces.aspx

http://www.oregon.gov/dhs/employment/VR/WIN/Pages/Services.aspx

Guardianship

Transfer of parental rights- IDEA

Procedural Safeguards

Legal Guardianship Changes at 18

Consent

Guardianship cont. Surrogate

Guardianship

Conservatorship

Power of attorney

Representative payee

How this works together

Activity

All materials are posted online

www.ocdd.org

http://www.ocdd.org/

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