Employment Services (335) #
Budget Category: #
Employment and Community Participation
Description/Providers: #
Employment Supports
Service Code Description: #
This service is provided to participants tailored to their specific personal outcomes related to the acquisition, improvement and/or retention of skills and abilities to prepare and support the participant for community participation, interdependence, independence, and/or community integrated work. This service supports the full access of participants receiving services in the community to seek employment and work in competitive integrated settings. The participant selects this service from among service options including non-disability specific settings. The service options are based on the participant’s individualized needs and preferences. The participant receives this service in settings that are integrated in and support full access to the greater community, and allows for participant comfort, interdependence, independence, preferences, and use of any technology. The participant’s choices are incorporated into the services and supports and his/her essential personal rights of privacy, dignity and respect, and freedom from coercion are protected. The service settings must allow the participant to control personal resources. In addition, the settings must allow the participant to receive breaks in the same manner as a nondisabled individual. Employment supports are individually designed and provided in the manner specified by the planning team to assist participants to gain and retain employment, including self-employment, in community integrated work environments to achieve the participant’s personally defined outcomes. The intended outcome of this service is sustained paid employment at or above minimum wage in an integrated setting in the general workforce, in a job that meets personal career goals. This service does not include payment for supervision training, support and adaptations typically available to other workers without disabilities working in similar positions in the business. These services and supports also include activities related to job discovery, self-employment, and retirement. The participant may receive any combination of Employment Supports, including:
a. Physical capacities development, i.e., health concerns.
b. Psychomotor skills development.
c. Interpersonal, communicative/social and adaptive skills development, e.g., responding appropriately to supervisors/coworkers.
d. Work habits development, e.g., attendance and punctuality, focusing on tasks.
e. Development of vocationally appropriate dress and grooming.
f. Productive skills development, i.e., the achievement of productivity standards and quality results.
g. Work-practices training, e.g., following directions, completing tasks.
h. Work-related skills development, e.g., problem solving, path planning to future employment opportunities.
i. Money management and income reporting skills.
j. Development and use of natural job supports.
k. Workforce integration techniques.
l. Community integration development/relationship building.
m. Safety skills and training.
n. Job discovery, job-seeking, and interviewing skills.
o. Self-advocacy training, participant counseling, peer vocational counseling, career counseling, and peer club participation.
p. Volunteerism to assist the person in identifying job or career interests.
q. Individualized assessment.
r. Job analysis, job development and placement that produce an appropriate job match for the participant and employer.
s. Direct supervision or training while the participant is engaged in integrated work.
t. Job coaching provided on or off the worksite.
u. Counseling with a participant/family and/or authorized representative to ensure support of the participant in job adjustment or planning for retirement.
v. Counseling on benefits planning to ensure a consumer understands the relationship between earned income and receiving public benefits such as SSI, SSA, Medi-Cal, and PASS Plans.
w. Consultation with employer’s Human Relations staff.
x. Assessment of need for technology and facilitating acquisition of communication aides and technology.
y. Job customization, e.g., modifications to work materials, procedures, and protocols.
z. Self-employment and business development, i.e., identification of potential business opportunities, business plan development, identification of needed supports, ongoing assistance and support.
Transportation from the participant’s residence to their place of employment is not a component of this service. The above described services and supports cannot be provided when available under a program funded under §110 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (29 U.S.C. 730) or §602(16) and (17) of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA.)(20 U.S.C. 1401 (16 and 17)).
EVV Required? #
No
