Current through all regulations passed and filed through September 16, 2024
(A)
The purpose and
intent of an employment service is to promote recovery through the
implementation of evidence based and best practices which allow individuals to
obtain and maintain integrated competitive meaningful employment by providing
training, ongoing individualized support, and skill development that honor
client choice. The outcome of an employment service is that individuals will
obtain and maintain a job of their choosing through rapid job placement which
will increase their self-sufficiency and further their recovery. Employment
services should be coordinated with mental health services and substance use
treatment and services.
(B)
Consistent with the purpose and intent of paragraph
(A) of this rule, employment services shall include at least one of the
following evidence based and best practice employment activities, unless prior
approval has been given for a non-listed activity as provided by paragraph (D)
of this rule:
(1)
Vocational planning (assessment);
(2)
Training (work
and personal);
(3)
Job seeking skills training (JSST);
(4)
Job development
and placement;
(5)
Job coaching;
(6)
Individualized
job supports, which may include regular contact with the employers, family
members, guardians, advocates, treatment providers, and other community
supports;
(7)
Benefits planning;
(8)
General
consultation, advocacy, building and maintaining relationships with
employers;
(9)
Individualized placement and support supported
employment (IPS SE), in accordance with the requirements for qualified
providers set forth in rule
5122-29-30
of the Administrative Code;
(10)
Rehabilitation
guidance and counseling; or,
(11)
Time unlimited
vocational support.
(C)
Any of the
following employment supports may be provided in conjuction with at least one
employment activitiy either that is listed in paragraph (B) of this rule or
which has received prior approval from OhioMHAS:
(1)
Facilitation of
natural supports;
(2)
Transportation; or,
(3)
Peer
services.
(D)
Individualized placement and support supported
employment (IPS SE).
Providers who chose to offer IPS SE
employment service shall meet the following requirements to be OhioMHAS
qualified providers:
(1)
IPS SE is an evidence based practice which is
integrated and coordinated with mental health treatment and rehabilitation
designed to provide individualized placement and support to assist individuals
with a severe and persistent mental illness or co-occurring mental illness and
substance use disorder obtain, maintain, and advance within competitive
community integrated employment positions.
(2)
In order to be
an IPS SE qualified provider, the provider must:
(a)
Provide the
evidence-based practice of IPS SE;
(b)
Have periodic
fidelity reviews completed by an Ohio department of mental health and addiction
services (OhioMHAS) approved fidelity reviewer as required by the developer of
the practice, and,
(c)
Achieve the minimum fidelity score necessary to
maintain fidelity, as defined by the developer of the practice.
(3)
In
the event a provider fails to achieve the required minimum fidelity score, the
provider will receive technical assistance to address areas recommended for
improvement as identified in the fidelity review by an OhioMHAS approved
fidelity reviewer. If the subsequent fidelity review results in a score of less
than the required minimum, the provider will no longer by designated as a
qualified IPS provider until their fidelity score again reaches the
minimum.
(4)
Providers implementing IPS SE may become a
provisionally qualified IPS SE provider by participating in a baseline fidelity
review. Providers may be provisionally qualified one time only and only between
the baseline fidelity review and the next subsequent fidelity review. A
provider must meet other requirements of this rule in order to receive
provisional qualification.
(E)
Employment
services shall be provided and supervised by staff who:
(1)
Are qualified
according to rule
5122-29-30
of the Administrative Code; or,
(2)
Have experience
working with individuals that have a mental illness or substance use
disorder.
Replaces: 5122-29-11
Effective: December 18, 2014
Five Year
Review (FYR) Dates: 12/30/2021 and
12/30/2026
Promulgated
Under:
119.03
Statutory Authority: R.C.
5119.36
Rule Amplifies: R.C.
5119.36
Prior Effective Dates: 01/01/1991, 07/15/2001, 08/23/2007,
07/01/2009, 12/18/2014
