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<p>Idaho Division of Vocational Rehabilitation (IDVR), Idaho Commission for Blind and Visually Impaired (ICBVI), and the State Department of Education (SDE) currently have a formal cooperative agreement. </p>
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<p>Idaho Division of Vocational Rehabilitation (IDVR), Idaho Commission for Blind and Visually Impaired (ICBVI), and the State Department of Education (SDE) currently have a formal cooperative agreement.</p>
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<p>The agreement stipulates that the vocational rehabilitation agency will initiate outreach and work with the LEAs to identify potential students with disabilities who need pre-employment transition services and VR transition services for students aged 14-21. This involves informing the student, or when appropriate their parent or legal guardian, as early as possible about the vocational rehabilitation program, its purpose, eligibility criteria, application procedures, and the scope of available VR services, to include pre-employment transition services. </p>
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<p>The agreement stipulates that the vocational rehabilitation agency will initiate outreach and work with the LEAs to identify potential students with disabilities who need pre-employment transition services and VR transition services for students aged 14-21. This involves informing the student, or when appropriate their parent or legal guardian, as early as possible about the vocational rehabilitation program, its purpose, eligibility criteria, application procedures, and the scope of available VR services, to include pre-employment transition services.</p>
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<p>The Division has also participated in a series of face to face meetings in communities across Idaho including key stakeholder engagement through a series of regional special educator meetings, presenting at statewide administrator meetings, presenting at Tools for Life to parents, students, and educators, reaching out to Idaho Parents Unlimited, reaching out to the Idaho Interagency Council on Secondary Transition, and providing ongoing discussions with the Idaho State Department of Education. </p>
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<p>The Division has also participated in a series of meetings in communities across Idaho including key stakeholder engagement through a series of regional special educator meetings, statewide administrator meetings, the Statewide Transition Institute, Tools for Life with parents, students, and educators, Idaho Parents Unlimited, Idaho Interagency Council on Secondary Transition, and continues ongoing discussions on student outreach with the Idaho State Department of Education.</p>
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<p>The Division also developed a Transition Leadership Team. This team has members from each of the eight regions. These leaders provide outreach across the state. </p>
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<p>The Division also developed a Transition Leadership Team. This team has members from each of the eight regions. These leaders provide outreach across the state.</p>
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<p>Additionally, IDVR counselors have worked with educational counterparts to significantly increase the number of potentially eligible students receiving pre-employment transition services and those found eligible for the VR program. </p>
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<p>Additionally, IDVR counselors and the Area Transition Counselors have worked with educational counterparts to significantly increase the number of potentially eligible students receiving pre-employment transition services and increase referrals for the VR program after seeing a decline due to COVID-19. Finally, in 2019 IDVR staff, the State Department of Education, the Idaho Parents Center, Idaho Educational Services for the Deaf and Blind, WINTAC, and NTACT worked to create a strategic plan for pre-employment transition services in Idaho. Although this plan was meant to be a two-year plan, with the intrusion of COVID-19 it was determined to review and renew the plan in 2022 to allow time to complete the activities currently indicated on the plan. The first goal developed by the team was to increase internal (VR staff) and external (school districts, parents, students, community partners) clarity and messaging regarding VR process and how Pre-ETS fits into the overall continuum of VR services. The following action steps were created to achieve this goal:</p>
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<p>Finally, IDVR staff, the State Department of Education, the Idaho Parents Center, Idaho Educational Services for the Deaf and Blind, WINTAC, and NTACT worked to create a strategic plan for pre-employment transition services in Idaho. The first goal developed by the team was to increase internal (VR staff) and external (school districts, parents, students, community partners) clarity and messaging regarding VR process and how Pre-ETS fits into the overall continuum of VR services. The following action steps were created to achieve this goal:</p>
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<li>Outreach strategies to rural schools are identified with steps to address student participation</li>
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<li>Outreach strategies to rural schools are identified with steps to address student participation </li>
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<li>Outreach strategies identified for juvenile justice and Foster Care. </li>
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<li>Outreach strategies identified for juvenile justice and Foster Care.</li>
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