1. | Pre-Employment Transition Services:
Updates from the front lines of major organizational change that is really stressing all of us out, but that is ultimately going to change the lives of students with disabilities and their families. In good ways. And you’re part of that. So that’s cool, right?

3. Who is a Student? Ages 16-21 (14-15 on rare occasions)
Secondary/post-secondary
IEP/504/documented disability

4. What disabilities qualify?

5. More than 48,000 secondary students
More than 48,000 secondary students. And that’s not counting post-secondary students.

6. VR must partner with education:
Not any more.

7.  Job exploration  Work-based learning  Post-secondary counseling  Workplace readiness training  Self-advocacy instruction

8. The DVR-customer referral process for pre-employment services:
Student becomes eligible for DVR
Student & VRC begin work together
Referral to IL and/or CRP for Pre-Employ Svcs

9. Pre-Employment IL services
Comprehensive/Partial Eval
Help student evaluate needs
Peer Mentoring
Peers working in competitive employment.
Self-advocacy 
Using AT, negotiation, person-centered planning, etc.
Skills Training
Travel, self-care, social, etc.
Work-Related Systems Access
Accessing health care, human resources, Social Security, etc.

10. Pre-Employment CRP services
Info Interview
Learning about careers of interest
Job Exploration
 Interests, values, strengths  Career ideas  Other activities as identified by student, VRC, teacher, family
Job Shadow
Job observation (1-4 hrs) at a business in the community tailored to student career interests
Social Skills
Helping student develop and practice employment-related interpersonal skills

11. New! Pre-Employment CRP services
Work-Based Learning Experience
A paid educational opportunity for an individual student to try out work tasks at businesses in the community. Between 4-12 weeks, 11 or more hours per week.
Workplace Readiness Training
Takes place while a student is on-site at the Work-Based Learning Experience. Helps the student learn social and other soft skills in practice.

12. Educational opportunity, not work Assessment not permitted
Job coaching not permitted
Employer will be reimbursed for additional training a student may need

13. WBL Wages
Modeled after summer youth employment: Vendor pays, Funder reimburses
DVR will add a 15% admin to hourly wage for admin costs ($ $1.65)
Monthly pay is ok