With the new year comes a new a sense of hope for those who receive Social Security disability benefits. The 2023 annual Cost of Living Adjustment brings an extra bit of relief to these individuals. Adjusted each fall, the COLA rates are based on the Consumer Price Index, a measure of the average change in… Read more »
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How Am I Going to Teach That?
As an employment specialist, you have a responsibility to help job seekers acquire the requisite skills to perform on the job and gradually eliminate the need for your presence on the job site. The training techniques to meet this challenge are broader than we can adequately address here, so we encourage you to enhance your… Read more »
Three Discovery Tools Defined
Employment specialists are always looking to improve their ability to help job seekers. When it comes to the Discovery process, we offer three tools you’ll want to know how to use. Situational Assessments, Work Experiences, and Informational Interviews are three components of Discovery. With these three, the job seeker can engage, observe, and question places,… Read more »
Discovery Identifies Vocational Themes
Vocational Themes? What are you talking about? Vocational what? Please, speak in English, or Spanish, but whatever the language, keep it simple! This month we are keeping it basic. Think of vocational themes as career pathways. Simple enough? If you have been a Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor (VRC) or an Employment Consultant (EC), you have likely… Read more »
Indiana Discovery
In 2015, Vocational Rehabilitation introduced a new way of supporting people with disabilities interested in working—a new method called “Discovery.” As a result of this change, the funding reimbursement for employment services and the evaluation/assessment of job seekers changed from Results Based Funding (RBF) to Discovery. The Discovery employment planning method provides an alternative to… Read more »