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d. 2. D. Procedures for Outreach to and Identification of Students with Disabilities Who Need Transition Services.

Current Narrative:

Outreach and Identification of Students

Local education agencies are strongly encouraged to enter into written agreements with VR, FDBS, APD, Children’s Medical Services, and Mental Health Services employees, on the outreach methods used to inform students with disabilities who may need, and could benefit from these agencies.

Brochures, flyers, website resources, presentations, transition fairs, or informational letters are available to the local education agency, students, and their parents or guardians, to explain the role that VR and other agencies play in the transition process, and the agencies’ referral and application policies and procedures.

VR has executed 25 Third Party Cooperative Arrangements (TPCA) for SFY 2017-18. The goal of these arrangements is to create new or expand existing transition services with a vocational rehabilitation focus. The costs are shared between the agencies. In order for the cooperating agency to receive matching vocational rehabilitation dollars, it must provide a cash match of non-federal funds. Recipients of the TPCA began providing job coaching to eligible students with a Supported Employment IPE in SFY 2011. In SFY 2014, TPCA were redesigned to serve only those students with the most significant disabilities who require Supported Employment services to become employed.

The current arrangements will expire on June 30, 2018. VR is in the process of revising the contractual agreement it offers to school districts, but new contracts have not been developed yet. Once developed, if the contract changes the way VR delivers Transition services, the State Plan will be amended as needed.