New Jersey Administrative Code
Title 12 - LABOR AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT
Chapter 45 - DIVISION OF VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION SERVICES
Subchapter 1 - PROCEDURES AND STANDARDS
Section 12:45-1.12 - Vocational rehabilitation services

1. An assessment for determining eligibility and vocational rehabilitation needs by qualified personnel, including, if appropriate, an assessment by personnel skilled in rehabilitation technology;

2. Counseling, guidance, and work-related placement services for individuals with disabilities, including job search assistance, placement assistance, job retention services, personal assistance services, and follow-up, follow-along, and specific postemployment services necessary to assist such individuals to maintain, regain, or advance in employment;

3. Vocational and other training services for individuals with disabilities, which shall include personal and vocational adjustment, books, or other training materials, and such services to the families of such individuals as are necessary to the adjustment or rehabilitation of such individuals, except that no training services in institutions of higher education shall be paid for unless maximum efforts have been made to secure grant assistance, in whole or in part, from other sources to pay for such training;

4. Physical and mental restoration services, including, but not limited to:

5. Maintenance for additional costs incurred while participating in rehabilitation services;

6. Interpreter services for individuals who are deaf;

7. Occupational licenses, tools, equipment, and initial stocks and supplies;

8. Transportation, including adequate training in the use of public transportation vehicles and systems, in connection with the rendering of any vocational rehabilitation service after:

9. Telecommunications, sensory, and other technological aids and devices;

10. Rehabilitation technology services;

11. Referral and other services designed to assist individuals with disabilities in securing needed services from other agencies;

12. Transition services that promote or facilitate the accomplishment of long-term rehabilitation goals and intermediate rehabilitation objectives;

13. On-the-job or other related personal assistance services provided while an individual with a disability is receiving vocational rehabilitation services in this section;

14. Supported employment services;

15. Technical assistance and other consultation services to conduct market analyses, develop business plans, and otherwise provide resources, to the extent such resources are authorized to be provided through the statewide workforce investment system, to eligible individuals who are pursuing self-employment or telecommuting or establishing a small business operation as an employment outcome; and

16. Other goods and services that can reasonably be expected to benefit an individual with a disability in terms of an employment outcome.

1. The establishment, development or improvement of community rehabilitation programs, including, under special circumstances as described at 34 C.F.R. 361.49, the construction of a facility, and the provision of other services (including services offered at community rehabilitation programs) which promise to contribute substantially to the rehabilitation of a group of individuals but which are not related directly to the individualized plan for employment of any one individual with a disability. Such programs shall be used to provide services that promote integration and competitive employment.

2. Technical assistance and support services to businesses that are not subject to Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. §§ 12111 et seq.) and that are seeking to employ individuals with disabilities.

3. Consultative and technical assistance services to assist educational agencies in planning for the transition of students with disabilities from school to post-school activities including employment.