Section 32-10-8-8.0 - Services For Individuals Who Have Applied For Or Been Determined Eligible For VR ServicesAs 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, and20. Other goods and services determined necessary for the individual with a disability to achieve an employment outcome.32 Miss. Code. R. 10-8-8.0