New York Codes, Rules and Regulations
Title 8 - EDUCATION DEPARTMENT
Chapter II - Regulations of the Commissioner
Subchapter V - Office Of Vocational Rehabilitation
Part 247 - Client Services
Section 247.11 - Individualized plan for employment
Universal Citation: 8 NY Comp Codes Rules and Regs ยง 247.11
Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 12, March 20, 2024
(a) The New York State Education Department, hereinafter known as the agency, will complete an assessment for determining eligibility and vocational rehabilitation needs, if appropriate, and shall then provide information to each individual eligible for vocational rehabilitation services about the individual's options for developing an individualized plan for employment.
(b) Process for developing the individualized plan for employment.
(1) The plan shall be developed by the
individual with the assistance of a vocational rehabilitation counselor to the
extent the individual determines. The plan shall be a written document using
forms provided by the agency and must be agreed to and signed by the individual
or, if appropriate, the individual's representative. It must also be approved
and signed by a qualified vocational rehabilitation counselor employed by the
agency. A copy of the plan and any amendments or revisions thereto shall be
provided to the individual or, as appropriate, the individual's parent,
guardian or other representative in the language or mode of communication
appropriate.
(2) The plan shall be
developed promptly after an individual is determined to be eligible for
vocational rehabilitation services. To the extent possible, the employment
outcome and the nature and scope of rehabilitation services must be determined
based on the data used for the assessment of eligibility.
(3) If additional data are necessary, the
agency shall conduct a comprehensive assessment of the unique strengths,
resources, priorities, concerns, abilities, capabilities, interests, and needs,
including the need for supported employment services, of an eligible
individual, in the most integrated setting possible, consistent with the
informed choice of the individual. The comprehensive assessment must be limited
to information that is necessary to identify the rehabilitation needs of the
individual and develop the individualized plan for employment and may, to the
extent needed, include:
(i) an analysis of
the pertinent medical, psychiatric, psychological, neuropsychological, and
other pertinent vocational, educational, cultural, social, recreational, and
environmental factors that affect the employment and rehabilitation needs of
the individual;
(ii) an analysis of
the individual's personality, career interests, interpersonal skills,
intelligence and related functional capacities, educational achievements, work
experience, vocational aptitudes, personal and social adjustments, and
employment opportunities of the individual, and the medical, psychiatric,
psychological, and other pertinent vocational, educational, cultural, social,
recreational and environmental factors that affect the employment and
rehabilitation needs of the individual;
(iii) an appraisal of the individual's
patterns of work behavior and services needed to acquire occupational skills
and to develop work attitudes, work habits, work tolerance, and social and
behavior patterns suitable for successful job performance including the use of
work in real job situations to assess and develop the capacities of the
individual to perform adequately in a work environment;
(iv) a referral for the provision of
rehabilitation technology services, to assess and develop the individual's
capacities to perform in a work environment; and
(v) an exploration of the individual's
abilities, capabilities, and capacity to perform in work situations, which
shall be assessed periodically during trial work experiences, including
experiences in which the individual is provided appropriate supports and
training.
(4) The
program shall be designed to achieve an employment outcome that is consistent
with the individual's unique strengths, priorities, concerns, abilities,
capabilities, career interests and informed choice.
(5) The program for a student with a
disability who is receiving special education services, shall consider the
student's individualized education program and be coordinated with it in terms
of the goals, objectives, and services identified.
(c) Content of the individualized plan for employment shall include the following:
(1)
the specific employment outcome established for the individual, including the
projected timeframe for achieving it;
(2) the specific vocational rehabilitation
services, the providers and the projected initiation and completion date of
such services;
(3) a procedure and
schedule for periodic review and evaluation of progress toward rehabilitation
objectives based on objective criteria;
(4) for individuals with the most significant
disabilities for whom a vocational goal in a supported employment setting has
been determined to be appropriate, descriptions of the supported employment
services to be provided and of the extended services needed and an
identification of the source of extended services or, if identification is not
possible, a statement explaining the basis for concluding that there is a
reasonable expectation that services will become available;
(5) the individual's words describing how he
or she was informed about and involved in choosing among alternative goals,
objectives, services, providers and methods used to provide services;
(6) the terms and conditions for the
provision of vocational rehabilitation services, including the responsibilities
of the individual in implementing the program, the extent the individual's
participation in the cost of services, the extent to which goods and services
will be provided in the most integrated settings possible, consistent with the
informed choice of the individual and the extent to which comparable services
and benefits are available to the individual under any other
programs;
(7) a statement assuring
that the individual has been informed of the right and means of review of
agency actions or decisions with which the individual is dissatisfied and of
the availability of the client assistance program;
(8) the basis on which the individual has
been determined to have achieved an employment outcome; and
(9) any plans for the provision of
post-employment services after an employment outcome has been achieved, and the
basis on which such plans are developed.
(d) The program shall be reviewed as often as necessary, but at least annually, at which time each individual or, as appropriate, the individual's parent, guardian or other representative, will be able to amend it. Any substantive change in the employment outcome, services or service providers shall not take effect until agreed to and signed by the individual or his or her representative and the rehabilitation counselor.
(e) If services are to be terminated under a program on the basis of a determination that the individual is not capable of achieving an employment outcome and is therefore no longer eligible, the following conditions shall apply:
(1) Such decision shall be made only with the
full participation of such individual or, as appropriate, the individual's
parent, guardian or other representative, except under any of the following
circumstances:
(i) a clear opportunity for
such consultation was offered but refused;
(ii) the individual is no longer present in
New York State;
(iii) the
individual's whereabouts are unknown; or
(iv) the individual's medical condition is
rapidly progressive or terminal.
(2) When the full participation of the
individual or the individual's representative has been secured in making such
decision, such person's views concerning the decision shall be recorded in the
program.
(3) The agency shall
record an amendment to the program indicating that the individual is not
capable of achieving an employment outcome.
(4) There shall be a periodic review, at
least annually if requested by the individual, of the ineligibility decision,
in which the individual will be afforded clear opportunity for full
consultation in the reconsideration of such decision, except in situations in
which a periodic review is precluded for any of the following reasons:
(i) the individual has refused
services;
(ii) the individual has
refused the review;
(iii) the
individual is no longer present in New York State;
(iv) the individual's whereabouts are
unknown; or
(v) the individual's
medical condition is rapidly progressive or terminal.
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