Section 3 / Part 16
Effective Date: May 1, 1998
Post-employment services
Rehabilitation Services (RS) policy
The potential need for post-employment services should be assessed and
reviewed with the client throughout the planning process and during service
provision. The final determination of the potential need for post-employment
services should occur when the client is approaching stable performance
on the job and/or at the point of case closure. Agencies, organizations
and resources that will be available to meet such needs, if they arise,
should be discussed. The discussion should include information on how
the client could access such resources.
Post-employment services are vocational rehabilitation (VR) services
provided when:
The individual has achieved an employment outcome and the record has
been closed.
Additional services are needed to assist the individual in maintaining,
regaining or advancing in employment, consistent with the individual’s
strengths, resources, priorities, concerns, abilities, capabilities and
interests, and there are no other personal, family, employer or community
resources available to assist the individual.
Needed services are limited in scope and duration, are related to services
previously provided and are not a new set of comprehensive services.
When a year or longer has elapsed since provision of VR services, the
counselor will carefully reassess facts to determine the exact nature
of services needed and whether post-employment services are appropriate.
The period of time after which post-employment services will be provided
will not be arbitrarily limited but will be determined on an individual
basis. If post-employment services are appropriate, an amendment to
the original Individualized Plan for Employment (IPE) will be developed.
If it is determined that the individual’s needs would be better
met through reopening the case, the standard application and eligibility
procedures will be followed.
Factors to be considered in closing a post-employment case include
the following:
Consultation with the individual.
Satisfactory solution to the issue that required post-employment services.
Attainment of sufficient independence to function without continuing
services.
Employment continues at a suitable level or can be realized by the individual’s
own initiative.
The individual’s condition or situation suggests that post-employment
services cannot maintain the individual’s employment. Consideration
should be given to reopening the case or referral to community providers
for services to address the issues impeding performance in employment.
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