Vocational Rehabilitative Agency
In Short...
Vocational Rehabilitation Agencies assist people with physical, emotional, intellectual, developmental, sensory and learning disabilities go to work and keep their jobs by providing services such as career assessment and counseling, assistive technology, job training, higher education and job placement.
The Vocational Rehabilitation Agency will assign a counselor who talks with families & individuals about the services they offer, in addition to determining eligibility for those services. Vocational Rehabilitation Agency counselors are typically trained to work with specific groups like high school students or individuals who are deaf/hard-of-hearing, blind or have persistent mental illness.
Vocational Rehabilitation Agencies offer two programs to help youth with documented disabilities prepare for employment (may vary by state)
Pre-Employment Transition Services (Pre-ETS)
For students at least 14 years old and no more than 21.
Vocational Rehabilitation (VR)
Services for adults & students beginning in their next-to-last year
Who might be eligible for Transition Services?
- High school students, college students, and students in other approved educational programs.
- High school students in the next to-last year of high school and out of-school youth may be eligible for additional Vocational Rehabilitation (VR) services.
Services could include:
Job exploration counseling.
Work-based learning experiences.
Counseling on transition or
Post-secondary educational programs.
Workplace readiness training.
Instruction in self-advocacy.
Is there a waiting list
There is no waiting list for Pre-Employment Transition Services.
For Vocational Rehabilitation (VR) services, federal law requires that students with the most significant disabilities be served first; therefore some students may be placed on a waiting list for additional VR services.