VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION ADVISORY COUNCIL
MEETING AGENDA
October 3, 2013
9:30 am-12:00 pm
I. CALL TO ORDER – CHAIRPERSON
II. ROLL CALL
III. CONSENT AGENDA –
- MINUTES OF THE PREVIOUS MEETING
- GOVERNOR’S COUNCIL FOR THE BLIND MEETING SUMMARY
- ILAC MEETING SUMMARY
IV. DIRECTOR’S REPORT
- STATUS REPORT ON DVI RECRUITMENT EFFORTS
- RSA REPORT ISSUED JULY 2013 – UPDATE ON REMEDIATION
- EDUCATION UPDATE: DEVELOPMENT OF MOU AND TRANSITION PLANS
- CONSUMER SURVEY STATUS UPDATE
- AT CONSULTANT RETENTION – STATUS UPDATE
- REVISED STATE PLAN SUBMISSION
- MOU WITH DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- VR DATA REVIEW
V. TACE UPDATE
VI. CHAIRPERSON’S REPORT
-WHITE CANE DAY 2013
- REVIEW OF VRAC’S STATE PLAN RECOMMENDATIONS FOR FFY 2013
(See Summary of 4.2(c) recommendations for FFY 2013 attached)
VII. OLD BUSINESS:
- DEVELOPMENT OF 2013 ANNUAL REPORT
- 2013 WHITE CANE DAY
V. NEW BUSINESS
- DART UPDATE-
- NOMINATIONS AND ELECTION OF OFFICERS - Nominations to Open October 15, 2013. Nomination Form to be transmitted to each voting VRAC Member at email address on file.
VI. UPCOMING MEETINGS AND EVENTS
ð VRAC SPONSORED WHITE CANE DAY – OCTOBER 14, 2013
Delaware Park White Clay Creek Country Club
Veranda Room
777 Delaware Park Blvd.
Wilmington, DE 19804
ð SRC Learning Community
October 15- 1:00- 5:00 pm;
October 16- 8:30- 2:00 pm
Holiday Inn Express Philadelphia-Midtown, 1305 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107
ð NOVEMBER VRAC MEETING: Dr. Maureen McGuire-Kuletz, Director, and Region 3 George Washington University TACE will present on transition.
Brief Candidates Forum scheduled during November 2013 meeting
VII. OTHER BUSINESS
VIII. ADJOURNMENT
ATTACHMENT – SUMMARY OF 4.2(C) RECOMMENDATIONS:
1. Employment Outcomes will increase by 10%.
VRAC’s recommendations: During FFY 13, the State Plan objective can be accomplished through:
1. Increasing marketing efforts to current and potential employers of blind and visually impaired persons. DVI will create and disseminate an “Employer Marketing Tool Kit” to current and potential employers by January 2014.
2. The pool of identified potential employers of blind and visually impaired Delawareans will increase by 10% by March 2014.
2. DVI will seek and secure funding to engage a qualified consultant to study and identify transportation barriers to employment of blind and visually impaired persons living in Delaware by March 2014
3. DVI will identify and implement three specific aspects of its VR Case Management Requirements that will be upgraded, automated, and implemented to decrease by 10% the amount of time VR Counselors and staff expend on manual data management and report generation by June 2014.
4. On or before October 2013, DVI will adopt and institute policies mandating transmission and completion of Consumer Satisfaction Surveys to consumers at three stages of the VR process: (i) the completion of orientation; (ii) the end of a 90 day period following the development of an IPE; and at closure (regardless of the reason for same. institute policies mandating that all personnel with direct service or consulting responsibility on VR Cases Up-to-date Case Management Data maintained and accessible to all VR service providers with responsibility for the consumer’s VR case.
5. All completed consumer satisfaction surveys will be analyzed and the results reported to the SRC at each meeting, beginning October 2013.
6. DVI will offer to all personnel involved in provision of direct services to VR Consumers education and training on assistive technology developments, strategies designed to increase employer pools, and cultural sensitivity, with an emphasis on services disabled clients.
TRANSITION
1. DVI will identify and validate the identity and school enrollment of all transition-aged youth eligible for transition services by October 2013.
2. DVI will identify and implement a validated formula to calculate the appropriate number of students to whom a VR/Transition Counselor will effectively provide statutorily required transition services by October 2013.
3. DVI will hire or retain the appropriate number of transition counselors (based upon the formula discussed in paragraph 2 above) necessary to provide transition services to all eligible blind and visually impaired persons in the State.
4. DVI will draft the terms of a Memorandum of Understanding with the Delaware Department of Education, which details the roles and responsibilities of DVI staff in providing transition-related services to blind and visually impaired eligible youth before November 2013.