Located in:
- Program-Specific Requirements for Vocational Rehabilitation (Blind)
The Vocational Rehabilitation (VR) Services Portion of the Unified or Combined State Plan [13] must include the following descriptions and estimates, as required by section 101(a) of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended by title IV of WIOA:
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[13] Sec. 102(b)(2)(D)(iii) of WIOA
p. 3. The VR program’s performance on the performance accountability indicators under section 116 of WIOA
Current Narrative:
ICBVI is continuing to gather baseline data from which to determine whether performance is degrading, maintaining or improving per section 116 standards. Once an understanding of these baselines emerge, ICVBI will be well positioned to develop strategies to improve upon these baseline figures. ICBVI currently has is Measurable Skill Gains with a rate of 23.7%.
The Commission is hesitant to rely strongly on the current MSG rate as recent file reviews have illustrated there is more work to be done before relying on this rate as a baseline.
The Commission continues working with core partner agencies to establish the open exchange of information which surround these performance measures and will be positioned to predict and establish baselines for negotiation with RSA based upon this data. However, since the core group of people continues to fundamentally shift as we operationalize WIOA requirements, the error introduced into these predictions is unknown, but is diminishing over time.
This plan is filed at a transitional period for standards and indicators in vocational rehabilitation.
Section 116 of WIOA establishes six new performance indicators to align these measures across numerous programs in the state. ICBVI has not traditionally reported these measures as defined. This in concert with fundamental changes in Pre-ETS service provision further confound the Commission’s ability to accurately forecast targets for negotiated performance. Furthermore, many of these data elements remain undefined. That said, ICBVI has made progress toward establishing baseline targets for a number of these indicators.