Welcome to the USC UCEDD Parent/Consumer Webinar Series

funded by grant #90DD0695 from

the Administration on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (AIDD) Administration on Community Living

April 30, 2015

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Susan Kanegawa USC UCEDD Family Support Coordinator skanegawa@chla.usc.edu www.uscucedd.org

The USC University Center of Excellence in Developmental Disabilities at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (USC UCEDD) is one of 68 UCEDDs funded to promote systemic change, advocacy, and capacity building in states on behalf of individuals with, or at risk for, developmental, behavioral and/or special health care needs and their families. The USC UCEDD Webinar series is designed to educate the community about current policy issues which impact the lives of people we serve and their families. Our primary audience is individuals with special needs and their families. However, service providers, program managers, students in training and others are welcome as space allows. At this time, our webinars are in English only. We are exploring methods to make this series available in other languages in the future.

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Employment and Disability: The Workforce Innovation and

Opportunity Act (WIOA)

By the California Department of Rehabilitation’s Bill Moore, Deputy Director

Vocational Employment Services Division and

Kelly Hargreaves, Chief Counsel

April 30, 2015

About Our Presenters

The California Department of Rehabilitation (DOR) is an employment and independent living resource for people with disabilities. DOR provides Vocational Rehabilitation Services to Californians with disabilities who want to work. Their services include employment counseling training and education, mobility and transportation aids, job search and placement assistance.

Our presenters work for the California Department of Rehabilitation in Sacramento. Bill Moore is the Deputy Director of the Vocational Rehabilitation Employment Division, and Kelly Hargreaves is Chief Counsel of Legal Affairs. http://www.rehab.cahwnet.gov/

President Obama signed WIOA on July 22, 2014.

WIOA changes the way that individuals with

disabilities may receive independent living

services and help going to work.

Independent Living Centers and the Department

of Rehabilitation receive no new funds but need

to provide new and different services.

We need to make decisions soon because most

of the changes were required starting last July!

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WIOA Overview

The Biggest Changes To…

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Independent Living Services

Services DOR must give to youth including students with disabilities

Supported Employment Services

Jobs Paying less

than minimum

wage for age 24

and younger

One Stops (also

called American

Job Centers)

Independent Living

Independent Living Centers (ILCs) must

provide 5th core service, in order to help

individuals with disabilities to live in their

communities and to help youth with

changes from high school.

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Independent Living

New Core Service (3 parts)

1. Help individuals with significant disabilities move out of nursing homes and other institutions to home and community-based residences, with supports and services they need; and

2. Help individuals with significant disabilities to stay in their home or other place in their community; and

3. Help youth with significant disabilities, who were eligible for an Individualized Education Plan, and have completed high school or left high school, to be independent.

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Services to Students With a

Disability (Ages 16 through 21)

DOR must reserve at least 15% ($45Million) of federal Vocational Rehabilitation Services grant to provide Pre-Employment Transition Services (PETS) to students with disabilities (age 16-21) with no additional funds.

PETS include 5 Required Services:

Job exploration counseling;

Work-based learning experiences;

Counseling related to post-secondary opportunities;

Workplace readiness training; and

Self-advocacy training.

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Students with a Disability

For individuals with disabilities who are

DOR consumers, we must include

information about steps we’ll be taking

and supports in place, when the student

moves from high school, in their

Individualized Plan for Employment (IPE).

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More for Students

Pre-Employment Transition Coordination:

DOR must attend individualized education program (IEP) meetings for students with disabilities when invited.

Each DOR office must work with local workforce development boards, one-stop centers, and employers to create work opportunities for students with disabilities.

Each DOR office must work with schools in providing students with help as they transition out of high school.

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Supported Employment (SE)

SE means integrated, competitive employment with supports such as job coaching.

Before WIOA, DOR could only provide SE for up to 18 months unless there were exceptional circumstances. Now DOR has the option to provide SE for up to 24 months.

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“Customized Employment” is a

new type of Supported

Employment service based on

individual’s unique strengths,

needs and interests

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Competitive Integrated

Employment Project

DOR, the Department of Developmental

Services, and the California Department of

Education has formed a Competitive

Integrated Employment (CIE) Workgroup to

improve competitive integrated employment

opportunities for individuals with intellectual

and development disabilities.

By June, we expect to have a “Blue Print” with

goals for making improvements over the next

5 years.

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Extended Services

Support Services that individuals receive even after

their case is closed such as mental health services or

job coaching

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Subminimum Wage (SW)

Subminimum wage is an amount of money that an employee receives for working that is not as high as the minimum wage.

Under WIOA, before someone age 24 or younger may be placed in a job that does not pay minimum wage, the following things have to happen:

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What has to happen before a

person may be given less than

minimum wage?

Receive Pre-employment transition services; and

Apply to DOR and

either be found not eligible for services; or

be found eligible but not be able to find work at minimum wage or higher, for the job described in their IEP, within a reasonable amount of time even though given supports and the vocational rehabilitation case is closed; and

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Last Condition for

Subminimum Wage to Be OK

Receive career counseling and

understand and want to work for the employer for less than minimum wage.

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More About

Subminimum Wage

If a person is already working in subminimum

wage, they can remain in that employment.

The conditions apply beginning on July 22,

2016.

Schools cannot have written agreements to

help find students jobs at subminimum wage.

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One-Stop Delivery Centers

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WIOA Changes

DOR and others must help pay for the

costs of One Stop Centers (now also

known as American Job Centers)

Local workforce development boards

need to check on the one-stop centers to

help us all make sure that everyone with a

disability can use the centers

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How Is

The Department of

Rehabilitation

Changing the Way it Does

Business Now?

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DOR Guiding Principles Persons with Disabilities Have the Right to Work

and Helping them Get Work is Most Important in Making Decisions about Changes.

We need to listen to individuals with disabilities and others who have different perspectives and experiences than we do, in order to make the best decision.

We need to be creative since we want to do better but are not receiving more money to do new things.

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What Have We Done So Far?

Looked at the law

Put DOR Experts in Charge of Finding Solutions and Getting Advice from Individuals with Disabilities and Others

Held conference calls with hundreds of interested Californians like you

Met with advisory groups like the State Rehabilitation Council, the Employment First Committee and others

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What’s Next?

We are considering different choices for how we may better help individuals and families like you.

We hope to make changes in October and will publish our changes on our web page.

We will make more changes if the approaches that we take don’t work better than the ones we have now.

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What do YOU

think we need

to do

differently? www.dor.wioa.ca.gov

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