Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 38, September 20, 2024
(a) "Ongoing Support
Services," as used in the definition of "Supported Employment," means services that
are:
(1) Needed to support and maintain an
individual with a most significant disability, including a youth with a most
significant disability, in supported employment;
(2) Identified based on a determination by the
Department of the individual's need as specified in the Individualized Plan for
Employment (IPE); and
(3) Furnished by
the Department from the time of job placement until transition to extended services,
unless post-employment services are provided following transition, and thereafter by
one or more extended services providers throughout the individual's term of
employment in a particular job placement.
(b) Ongoing support services must include an
assessment of employment stability and provision of specific services or the
coordination of services at or away from the worksite that are needed to maintain
stability based on:
(1) At a minimum,
twice-monthly monitoring at the worksite of each individual in supported employment;
or
(2) If under specific circumstances,
especially at the request of the individual, the IPE provides for off-site
monitoring, twice-monthly meetings with the individual.
(c) Ongoing support services shall consist of:
(1) Any particularized assessment supplementary to
the comprehensive assessment of rehabilitation needs described in Section
7001.5(c) of these
regulations;
(2) The provision of
skilled job trainers who accompany the individual for intensive job skill training
at the worksite;
(3) Job development and
training, job retention, and placement services;
(4) Social skills training;
(5) Regular observation or supervision of the
individual;
(6) Follow-up services
including regular contact with the employers, the individuals, the parents, family
members, guardians, advocates, or authorized representatives of the individuals, and
other suitable professional and informed advisors, in order to reinforce and
stabilize the job placement;
(7)
Facilitation of natural supports at the worksite;
(8) Any other service identified in the scope of
vocational rehabilitation services for individuals described in Section
7149 of these regulations; or
(9) Any service similar to the foregoing
services.
1. New section
filed 3-4-2004; operative 4-3-2004 (Register 2004, No. 10). For prior history, see
Register 94, No. 41.
2. Amendment of subsections (a)(1), (a)(3) and
(c)(3) and amendment of NOTE filed 2-17-2023; operative 2-17-2023 pursuant to
Government Code section
11343.4(b)(3)
(Register 2023, No. 7).
Note: Authority cited: Sections
19006
and
19016,
Welfare and Institutions Code. Reference:
29 USC Section
705;
34 CFR Sections
361.5 and
361.48; and Section
19011, Welfare and Institutions
Code.
