Section Ed 1006.02 - Employment Factors(a) The NHVR counselor shall begin the eligibility process with the presumption that the individual can benefit from vocational rehabilitation services in terms of an employment outcome.(b) Eligibility for services shall be determined in relationship to the individual's need for services to achieve an employment outcome consistent with the individual's employment factors as described in (d) below.(c) Employment factors shall be assessed, as necessary, documented, and considered together when determining eligibility and planning services, relying on existing information available from the individual and other sources, as well as any additional assessments where appropriate.(d) Employment factors shall be assessed, as necessary, and documented, as appropriate, in the following categories: (1) Strengths as demonstrated by the individual's positive attributes or inherent expertise related to an employment field such as intellectual aptitude, motivation, talents, work and volunteer experience, work skills, work-related hobbies, and transferable life skills;(2) Resources as demonstrated by the individual's sources of available support, including financial, social, information, and technological, on which the person can rely to prepare for and meet employment objectives. These resources could be available from the individual, the family, or other community or public sources;(3) Priorities as demonstrated by the individual's consistency with and relationship to employment-related preferences, based on informed choice among available options;(4) Concerns as demonstrated by the individual's employment-related issues that need to be considered in vocational planning such as financial, self-sufficiency, medical, residential, transportation and family considerations;(5) Abilities as demonstrated by the individual's existing physical, mental, or functional capacity to successfully engage in employment through natural aptitude or acquired proficiency;(6) Capabilities as demonstrated by the potential for an individual to develop the skills necessary for employment through the provision of vocational rehabilitation services;(7) Interests as demonstrated by occupational areas on which an individual has focused special attention; and(8) Informed choice as demonstrated by the active involvement of participants contributing to the success of and satisfaction with their employment goals in the selection of a long-term employment outcome, rehabilitation objectives, and vocational rehabilitation services including assessment services and service providers.N.H. Admin. Code § Ed 1006.02
Derived from Volume XLI Number 32, Filed August 12, 2021, Proposed by #13231, Effective 7/13/2021, Expires 7/13/2031