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- Program-Specific Requirements for Vocational Rehabilitation (Combined or General)
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:
IDVR 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, IDVR will be well positioned to develop strategies to improve upon these baseline figures. IDVR currently has is Measurable Skill Gains with a rate of 35.3 percent for the 915 gains reported. IDVR also has preliminary median earnings of $3,733.93 reported in PY 2018.
The Division is hesitant to rely too strongly on the current MSG rate as recent file reviews have illustrated an opportunity for IDVR to initiate improvements which can further advance performance on this rate. That said, the Division is ready to engage in the initial MSG target negotiation and has developed a competitive benchmark process to help inform negotiations.
The Division 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. IDVR has not traditionally reported these measures as defined. This in concert with fundamental changes in Pre-ETS service provision further confound the Division’s ability to accurately forecast targets for negotiated performance. Furthermore, many of these data elements remain undefined. That said, IDVR has made progress toward establishing baseline targets for a number of these indicators. Current data sharing agreements are not adequate to gather the level of information necessary to establish baseline targets. The Division is currently working on a new array of agreements to ensure the requirements of partner agencies are met.