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October 22, 2014
The powerpoint and handouts for today’s webinar can
be downloaded from the www.secondarytransition.org
website: Under hot topics
PaTTAN’s Mission
The mission of the Pennsylvania
Training and Technical Assistance
Network (PaTTAN) is to support the
efforts and initiatives of the Bureau of
Special Education, and to build the
capacity of local educational agencies
to serve students who receive special
education services.
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PDE’s Commitment to Least Restrictive Environment (LRE)
Our goal for each child is to ensure
Individualized Education Program (IEP)
teams begin with the general
education setting with the use of
Supplementary Aids and Services
before considering a
more restrictive environment.
PA’s Secondary Transition Website
www.secondarytransition.org
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Today’s Presenters
Stanley Swaintek
Director of Field Operations
OVR/BBVS
Patricia M. Vasco
Statewide Transition Specialist
Office of Vocational Rehabilitation
Lynn Zale
Interagency Collaboration Specialist
Office of Vocational Rehabilitation
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Office of Vocational Rehabilitation
OVR Transition and
Employment Services for
Youth with Disabilities
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Objectives
• Provide an overview of:
– The OVR Transition Process
– Career Exploration and Work Preparation
– Special Programs for Transitioning Youth
– Next steps
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OVR MISSION
• To assist Pennsylvanians with
disabilities secure and maintain
employment and independence
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Who We Are
• OVR is a federal and state funded program
designed specifically to enable persons with
disabilities to enter the workforce by providing
vocational counseling and guidance, training,
and/or other services to allow that person to enter
the world of work and/or maintain independence.
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Transition- the OVR process
• Usually commences at age 16
• OVR counselor may attend IEPs
• Works with student’s IEP team
• May receive referrals from school nurses,
guidance counselors, SAP coordinators and other
educational personnel
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Should a Student Become Involved with OVR?
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If a student would like to work or attend post secondary
education
If a student is unsure about their ability to work
OVR is an excellent resource for employment trends, local
training opportunities, and other adult community resources
The OVR Process
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When to Apply-It Depends
BVRS
• When you are thinking
about working
• Are about two years from
graduating
• Are ready to plan for the
next steps after school
BBVS • Can apply at any time when
you have a severe vision
problem
• Services are not just work
related
• Customers are served from
birth to end of life
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OVR Services
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Blindness and Visual Services
Vocational Rehabilitation
Rehabilitation Teaching
Orientation and Mobility Training
Business Enterprise Program
Specialized Services Program
Independent Living Program
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OVR Eligibility
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OVR is a program based on eligibility
not entitlement.
Eligibility is based on severity of
disability and how it affects daily
activities.
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Career Assessments
• Psychological/ Neuro-psychological
• Physiatric- (physical capacity)
• Career Assessment
• Community Based Work Assessment
• Assistive Technology Evaluations
• Vocational Evaluations
– Hiram G. Andrews Center
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Psychological Assessments
• Provides diagnostic information for eligibility and
planning.
• Helps determine potential accommodations.
• Helps customer gain a greater understanding of how
barriers affect overall functioning.
• Can be a counseling tool for counselors to discuss relevant
disability barriers to employment and potential services
needed.
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Psychological Assessments – continued
• Offers counselors information to use in developing
a comprehensive assessment.
• Gives the customer insight into their aptitudes and
abilities.
• Provides information on intellectual abilities, math
and reading levels.
• Provides data on the customer’s academic
abilities, deficits and ability to learn
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Physiatric -physical capacities
• A Functional Capacity Evaluation documents a
client's current ability to perform work from a
medical, behavioral, physical, and ergonomic
perspective. The FCE includes multiple tests that
focus on strength, flexibility, lifting, pushing,
pulling, bending, and fine motor tasks.
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Physiatric (continued)
• Helps determine the customer’s physical ability to
perform generic job tasks such as lifting, bending,
standing and sitting.
• Assists the counselor in determining whether a
customer is physically able to work or perform
specific types of work tasks.
• Assists in determining what, if any,
accommodations are needed.
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Career Assessment
• Interest Testing- What is the customer interested
in doing?
• Ability testing- What types of abilities does the
customer possess?
• Aptitudes- What natural abilities does the
customer already possess?
• Work History- past jobs, volunteer activity,
internships, summer youth programs?
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Community Based Work Assessment
• Aids in determining client’s ability to work
independently in a community setting
• Measures social behavior, work behavior, work
readiness
• Ability to perform job tasks in a real job setting
with limited supports.
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Community Based Work Assessments - continued
• Helps create options for job goals
• Assesses social and work behaviors in a
community based setting
• Successfully completed job tasks can be related to
specific vocational goals
• Selected vocational goals determine services
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Assistive Technology Evaluations
• Common evaluation for post secondary education
for customers with cognitive, physical and sensory
disabilities.
• Provides information regarding the best types of
technology that will be most beneficial for the
customer
• Offers options for technology-based devices and
accommodations.
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Training
• Job Readiness
• Assistive Technology utilization
• On-The-Job Training
• Supported Employment
• Post-Secondary Education
• Career and Technology Programs
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Job Readiness
• Assessment of “Soft Skills”
• Soft Skills are personal attributes
• Describe an individual’s ability to interact with
others
• Can also be described as “People Skills”
• Examples: keeping a social distance from others,
making eye contact, ability to follow directions,
ability to tolerate correction by a co-worker or
supervisor
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Job Readiness - continued
• Ability to express oneself
• Ability to advocate on behalf of self
• Knowledge of interests, abilities, aptitudes
• Appropriate job goals
• Interview preparation
• Resume or portfolio development
• Job seeking skills
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Assistive Technology Utilization
• Assistive Technology is a term that includes assistive,
adaptive, and rehabilitative devices for people with
disabilities and also includes the process used in selecting,
locating, and using them. AT promotes greater
independence by enabling people to perform tasks that
they were formerly unable to accomplish, or had great
difficulty accomplishing, by providing enhancements to, or
changing methods of interacting with, the technology
needed to accomplish such tasks.
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Assistive Technology Utilization
• Assistive Technology
• Evaluation/Training
• Rehabilitation Engineering Services
(Devices/Equipment/Software)
• Adaptive Driving Services
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On-The-Job Training
• An on-the-job training
reimbursement program
• Provides a direct financial
incentive for business and industry
to hire individuals with disabilities
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Supported Employment
• OVR will take the lead role in service delivery for
eligible youth and young adults with disabilities as
they near graduation and exit from high school, to
prepare for, obtain, and retain employment. OVR
may offer services to provide eligible youth and
young adults with community based work
assessments, job development, and job coaching
services through approved providers
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Post-Secondary Education
• Training services are a means to achieve a
vocational objective agreed upon by the counselor
and customer
• All training programs must be accredited
• Most training programs must be approved for
PELL and PHEAA
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Post Secondary Training Types
• College/University
• Business, Trade and Technical
• Non-Traditional Training (Correspondence or
Distance Learning)
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Special Initiatives
• Early Reach
• Project Promoting Academic Success (PAS)
• Jobs for All OJT Project
• Project SEARCH
• How to guide
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Early Reach Initiative
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Early Reach is an OVR Outreach Program,
to find youth earlier (14 – 16 years old) and
their parents to discuss:
• OVR services and vocational planning
• What to expect from OVR and when to
expect it.
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Early Reach Initiative
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The main focus is Group Services
* To provide outreach presentations to school personnel,
students and families to outline the services offered by OVR.
* To provide vocational consultative services to school
personnel, agencies, students and families to leverage the full
array of services offered during the secondary school years to
best prepare students for OVR and vocational goals.
Early Reach Initiative
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Sometimes Individual Services are necessary
• To track youth with disabilities not yet ready for referral
to OVR so they don’t “fall through the cracks”.
• To assist appropriate students in making application to
OVR and to provide pre-eligibility services, as needed.
• To facilitate the VR counselor’s ability to effectively and
accurately determine timely eligibility for identified
students with disabilities.
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Promoting Academic Success Project PAS
• Project Promoting Academic Success (PAS) is
based on the model developed in the OVR
Pittsburgh District Office with the Community
College of Allegheny County (CCAC).
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PAS- How it Started
• 1 Credit Course
• Curriculum intended to help students
“Map the Future”.
• Helps students decide if college is the correct
choice for them
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PAS-Curriculum
• Week One: Setting the Stage
Differences between high school, work &
college
• Week Two: Active Learning
“Face a Note-taking Challenge”
• Week Three: Learning Styles
Multiple Pathways to Learning
• Week Four: Disability Law
“Know Your Rights and Responsibilities”
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PAS- Curriculum
• Week Five: Assistive Technology
How technology can improve academic performance.
• Week Six: Overview of Reading and Study Skills
• Week Seven: Evaluating Learning and Progress
• Week Eight: Problem Solving and Decision-Making
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PAS- Who to refer
Who should be referred?
Students with disabilities who are considering post-secondary education after high school.
Who is responsible for making the referral?
OVR counselors, high school transition coordinators, college disability service coordinators, and parents.
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PAS- How to Refer
• The school district must be willing to release the
student from class.
• The parents must sign a permission slip and
complete a dual enrollment form.
• The student must be eligible for OVR services.
• The OVR counselor makes the final decision when
OVR funds are used.
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PAS- When to refer
• Junior or Senior Year?
• October or March?
• PAS is driven by
1.The academic school year
2. OVR Transition Policy
3. College’s availability to provide an
instructor and classroom.
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PAS- What We Know
• There is a real need to prepare youth with
disabilities for adult life.
• Students may not enroll in appropriate post-
secondary training programs.
• Proprietary schools often are expensive and do not
have support services.
• Community College programs strive to fill local
employment needs.
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Project SEARCH
• Project SEARCH is dedicated to providing
education and training to youth and young adults
with disabilities through an innovative workforce
and career development model that benefits the
individual, the workplace and the
community. The primary goal is to secure
competitive employment for each of the student
interns
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Project SEARCH
• The program is a one year program with a
maximum of 12 student interns with various types
of disabilities. The program is led by certified
instructors and job coaches. Students who are in
their final year of high school are
eligible. Students intern rotate through internships
and receive continual feedback. At the end of the
program, the students are then eligible for
employment.
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Project SEARCH- Partners
• Businesses
• OVR
• Schools/Intermediate Units
• County Intellectual Disability/ Developmental
Disability Offices
• Community Rehabilitation Providers.
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Project SEARCH- Key Concepts
• Collaboration with businesses, education,
rehabilitation and long term support.
• Braided funding.
• Immersion into the workplace.
• Training in real work settings (each student intern
gets multiple internships).
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Project SEARCH-Key Concepts
• Low risk, low cost for businesses
• Hiring student interns who are a “good fit”
• Goal is employment in a community
integrated work place at a competitive wage.
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Project SEARCH Benefits to Youth
• Postsecondary training and internship experience
(no cost).
• Opportunity to work in a high-status organization.
• Develop strength areas.
• Work toward independence in many areas such as
transportation, independent living skills, etc.
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Project SEARCH sites
• Allentown DO- Good Shepherd Rehabilitation
Network and the Carbon-Lehigh Intermediate Unit
#21 (Fall 2008)
• Allentown DO- Lehigh Valley Government
Center, Good Shepherd rehabilitation Network
and Carbon-Lehigh Intermediate Unit #21 (Fall
2012)
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Project SEARCH sites
• Pittsburgh DO- Goodwill Industries of Pittsburgh
and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
(UPMC) Mercy (Fall 2008)
• Pittsburgh DO- Goodwill Industries of Pittsburgh
and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
(UPMC) Passavant (2011)
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Project SEARCH sites
• York DO- Lancaster General Hospital and
Lancaster-Lebanon IU#13(Fall 2009)
• York DO- Wellspan Health System and Lincoln
Intermediate Unit #12 (Fall 2010)
• Norristown DO- Phoenixville Hospital, Ken Crest
and Chester County (Fall 2010)
• Harrisburg DO- Lebanon VA Medical Center and
Lancaster-Lebanon IU #13 (Fall 2010)
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Project SEARCH sites
• Reading DO- East Penn Manufacturing and Berks
County Intermediate Unit (Fall 2011)
• York DO- Wellspan Health System (Gettysburg
Hospital) and Lincoln Intermediate Unit#12 (Fall
2015)
• Harrisburg DO- Penn State Milton S. Hershey
Medical Center and Capital Area Intermediate
Unit (Fall 2015)
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Project SEARCH sites
Adult Programs
• Norristown DO- Bryn Mawr Rehabilitation
Hospital (2010)
• Harrisburg DO- Dauphin County Government and
Goodwill Industries (2015)
• Norristown DO- Lankenau Hospital (2015)
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Jobs for All OJT Project
PURPOSE
To promote the hiring of young people with
disabilities through an On-The-Job Training option.
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Jobs for ALL OJT Initiative
• This is an On-The-Job training reimbursement
program.
• It provides a direct financial incentive for business
and industry to promote the hiring of young
people with disabilities
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Jobs for All OJT Initiative
• Key Points
– Jobs for All OJT funding is defined to be
consistent with current OJT policy and is as
follows: “Formal or informal training furnished
by an employer that leads to the acquisition of
specific knowledge and skills inherent to the
performance of a specific job”.
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OJT Key Points - continued
• OVR Youth customers are those age 25 and under
• As outlined in the OJT Policy, the Financial Needs
test will not be applied to the Jobs for All Youth
On-the-Job Training Services ( as is with all OVR
OJT’s)
• The OJT Letter of Agreement must be completed
with the employer for each individual OVR
customer involved in this OJT initiative.
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How To Guide
• The How To Guide is an attempt to link
businesses/employers to persons with disabilities
who want to work.
• It was developed through a collaboration of PA
State and local agency representatives and several
employers
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How to Guide
• Connect with Business/Employer; initiated by OVR, BLN,
or the employer
• OVR SPOC works with Business/Employer to identify
staffing needs and how to meet them
• OVR SPOC assembles team (OVR and other government
and non-government stakeholders)
• Team identifies candidates that meet Business/Employer
requirements
• Candidates may or may not be OVR customers
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How to Guide- How It Works
• The OVR Single Point of Contact (SPOC) works
with the Business/Employer to identify staffing
needs and how to meet them
• The OVR SPOC assembles the team (OVR and
other government and non-government
stakeholders)
• The Team identifies candidates that meet the
Business/Employer requirements.
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OVR Information on PA’s Secondary
Transition Website
www.secondarytransition.org
OVR Contact Information
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Visit OVR on our Webpage:
www.dli.state.pa.us
Click on Disability Services and then on Office of
Vocational Rehabilitation
Call OVR at our Central Office: 1-800-442-6351
TTY: 1-866-830-7327
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OVR on Social Media
Follow us on LinkedIn:
• http://www.linkedin.com/company/pennsylvania's
office-of-vocational-
rehabilitation?trk=top_nav_home.
Like us on Facebook:
• https://www.facebook.com/?sk=welcome#!/pages/
PA-Office-of-Vocational-
Rehabilitation/160898450745020
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It All depends on YOU!
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Questions?
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2014-15 – COP Webinar Series
November 19, 2014 - Employment Options Part #2
December 10, 2014 - Transition Tools of Engagement for Families and Caregivers
January 21, 2015 - Effective Practices for Youth with Behavioral Health Needs
January 28, 2015 – CTEs and Special Education: A Partnership for Success
March 4, 2015 – Tools for Engagement for Inclusive Education, Employment, etc.
March 18, 2015 – Transition Tools of Engagement for Youth and Young Adults
April 1, 2015 –Transportation Resources and Strategies
April 15, 2015 – LTCC – Effective Practices and Engagement
Thank you for joining us on today’s
webinar.
Please join us for the remaining webinar
sessions in this series
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Contact Information www.pattan.net
Michael Stoehr
Patty Vasco
Lynn Zale
