Employment Services
The more common term for an employment specialist.
What is a job coach?
The place where all vendors are stored within the Aware system.
What is the vendor module?
The new SAVE.
What is FINISH?
The age range participants must fall within to qualify for Per-ETS services.
What is 14-21?
To help individuals with disabilities find and maintain employoment.
What is the VR Mission?
The last paid benchmark paid prior to case closure.
What is 90-day retention?
The bureau responsible for approving vendors within VR.
What is Bureau of Contract and Vendor Services?
The first status in the participant module.
What is Application?
Training on how to better communicate their strengths, abilities, interests, and needs when interviewing with potential employers.
What is Self-Advocacy training?
A person with the most significant disability.
What is Category 1?
The maximum number of times pre-placement training may be authorized for.
What is two?
The vendor type who assists participants with self-employment.
What is a Certified Business Technical Assistance Consultant (CBTAC)?
The step after approval for an authorization in Aware.
What is to issue it?
The number of consecutive days school must be out for a Career Camp to be offered.
What is three?
The number of days you have to develop a participant's IPE.
What is 90?
All successful placements must be in this type of employment.
What is competitive integrated employment?
Payments made directly to the client to reimburse them for services with no registered vendors.
What is maintenance - client?
The final piece of information that must be entered prior to an IPE becoming effective.
What is plan start date?
The Act that dictates that every student, aged 14-21, with a disability has the opportunity to participate in Pre-ETS.
What is the Workforce Innovation and Opportunities Act (WIOA)?
A form filled out and signed by the participant allowing you to speak to a caregiver regarding their case.
What is a Wavier of Confidentiality?
The process by which an employment specialist submits monthly progress reports.
What is submission via the vendor portal?
Services performed by VR staff rather than vendors.
What are actual services?
The heading where Measurable Skill Gains (MSGs) are entered in Aware.
What is under Education?
A student with a disability receiving Pre-ETS services from VR without having been found eligible.
What is potentially eligible?
The unit within VR that assists participants when they have disagreements with their counselor and their supervisor.
What is the Ombudsman Unit?