Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 12, March 22, 2024
(a)
Establishment Grants.
(1) The Department may
award Establishment Grants to public or private non-profit rehabilitation
facilities. Such facilities include sheltered workshops,work activity centers,
facilities serving primarily blind and/or deaf, independent living centers,
rehabilitation centers, and other community resources for the handicapped
available within the state. Such facilities shall provide vocational
rehabilitation services or transitional or extended employment for handicapped
individuals. The purpose of such grants is to:
(A) Expand, remodel, or alter existing
buildings and/or
(B) Acquire
initial and additional fixed or movable equipment of existing
buildings.
(C) Provide initial or
additional staffing assistance which will be available only for personnel who
are engaged in new or expanded program activities of the rehabilitation
facility.
(2) The initial
establishment grant shall be for 12 to 15 months. Establishment grants shall be
reviewed annually. If the project continues to show effectiveness in achieving
its goals and is incorporated into the basic program at the end of the project,
the grant may be continued and/or renewed for additional periods, however, the
grant period shall not exceed a total of 51 months.
(3) The facility shall provide a minimum of
twenty percent of the amount of the grant during the first year. The Department
may provide up to eighty percent of the amount of the grant from federal funds.
The grantee shall assume an increased share of the funding each project year as
an indication of ability and intent to continue the project at the end of the
project period.
(b)
Innovation and Expansion Grants.
(1) The
Department may award Innovation and Expansion Grants to public or private
non-profit organizations and agencies. Only referrals, applicants or clients of
the Department of Rehabilitation shall be served in these projects.
(2) The purpose of such Grants is to plan,
prepare for, and initiate special programs that:
(A) Increase the capability of the Department
to serve and rehabilitate severely handicapped individuals and other designated
groups who have unusual or difficult problems in connection with their
rehabilitation.
(B) Introduce new
devices and techniques in the provision of vocational rehabilitation
services.
(C) Develop and provide
vocational rehabilitation services.
(D) Enrich existing services.
(E) Broaden the scope of existing
services.
(3) The initial
Innovation and Expansion grant shall be for 12 months. All Innovation and
Expansion grants shall be reviewed annually. If the project is effective, the
grant may be extended for additional periods, however, the total grant period
shall not exceed 36 months.
(4) The
facility shall provide a minimum of ten percent of the amount of the grant. The
department may provide up to ninety percent of the amount of the grant from
federal funds during the first year. The grantee shall assume an increased
share of the funding each project year as an indication of ability and intent
to continue the project at the end of the project period. These sharing ratios
shall not be allowed to vary or deviate unless approved by the
Department.
(c) Grant
Awards to Independent Living Centers.
(1)
Independent Living Centers (hereinafter "ILC's") shall receive state grant
funds to serve a specific geographic area designated by the Department. New
ILC's shall be funded only for those areas of the state in which independent
living services are not available. The Department shall determine when funds
are sufficient to add new ILC's or extend the geographic service area for an
existing funded ILC. The ILC shall not be restricted from providing services
outside the geographic service area so long as these services are not supported
by state ILC grant funds.
(2) To
the extent that funds are allocated and appropriated, monies shall be allocated
to ILC's according to the following formula:
(A) Each ILC shall receive a $150,000 base
grant.
(B) Any appropriated money
available after payment of the base grants shall be divided among the ILC's
based on the ratio of the total of the general population in an ILC's
geographic service area as compared to the total of the general population in
all ILC's geographic service areas statewide.
(C) No ILC shall receive a combined
allocation of base and population funds less than that received in Fiscal Year
1987-88.
1. New
subsection (c) filed 12-1-83 as an emergency; effective upon filing (Register
83, No. 51).
2. Order of Repeal of 12-1-83 emergency order filed
12-12-83 by OAL pursuant to Government Code Section
11349.6
(Register 83, No. 51).
3. New subsection (c) filed 6-29-84;
designated effective 7-1-84 pursuant to Government Code Section
11346.2(d)
(Register 84, No. 26).
4. Amendment of subsection (c) filed 5-31-88;
operative 6-30-88 (Register 88, No. 23).
Note: Authority cited: Sections
19006
and
19016,
Welfare and Institutions Code. Reference: Sections
19800-
19806,
Welfare and Institutions Code; and
34 CFR
361.51,
361.73,
361.75 and
366.