Section 218-RICR-50-00-1.11 - INFORMED CHOICEA. ORS is required to inform individuals through the appropriate means of communication of their right to make informed choices, and that this right may be exercised in a collaborative manner with their VR Counselor or other individual of their choice.B. All eligible individuals with disabilities are provided with information necessary to make an informed choice regarding the selection of their long-term vocational goals, intermediate rehabilitation objectives, vocational rehabilitation services (including assessment services), and service providers. In addition, information on the advantages and costs associated with alternative goals and providers is provided.C. In assisting an applicant and eligible individual in exercising informed choice during the assessment for determining eligibility and vocational rehabilitation needs and during development of the individualized plan for employment, ORS must provide the individual or the individual's representative, or assist the individual or the individual's representative in acquiring, information necessary to make an informed choice about the specific vocational rehabilitation services, including the providers of those services, that are needed to achieve the individual's employment outcome. This information must include, at a minimum, information relating to the: 1. Cost, accessibility, and duration of potential services;2. Consumer satisfaction with those services to the extent that information relating to consumer satisfaction is available;3. Qualifications of potential service providers;4. Types of services offered by the potential providers;5. Degree to which services are provided in integrated settings; and6. Outcomes achieved by individuals working with service providers, to the extent that such information is available.218 R.I. Code R. 218-RICR-50-00-1.11
Amended effective 6/4/2023