Supported Employment Services 525-05-30-65

(Revised 8/1/07 ML #3106)

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Purpose

Paid employment opportunities for persons for whom competitive employment at or above the minimum wage is unlikely, and who, because of their disabilities, need the provision of intensive, ongoing support to perform in a work setting with necessary adaptations, supervision, and training appropriate to the person’s disability.  

Service Eligibility, Criteria for

The individual receiving Supported Employment Services will meet the following criteria:

1. Must be eligible for Medicaid Waiver for Home and Community Services;
2. Must have completed the Vocational Rehabilitation program of Supported Employment for training and stabilization;
3. Must need the provision of intensive, ongoing support to perform in a work setting with necessary adaptations, supervision, and training appropriate to the person’s disability;
4. Documentation is maintained in the file of each participant receiving this service that the service is not available under a program funded under section 110 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 or the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (20 U.S.C. 1401 et seq.);
5. Service is not otherwise available to the individual through a local educational agency under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) or the Rehabilitation Act of 1973; and furnished as part of expanded habilitation services; and
6. Competitive employment at or above the minimum wage is unlikely.

Limitations

This service would not include supervised or training activities provided in a typical business setting. Nor does it include prevocational skills development. These activities are provided through TBI residential or transitional care as a component of promoting independent living skills and social appropriateness.

Employment job site is at a work site in which persons without disabilities are employed, payment will only be made for the adaptations, supervision, and training required by the client as a result of their disability and will not include supervisory activities rendered as a normal part of the business setting.

Service Tasks

1. Supported Employment Activities
2. Transportation between the client’s place of residence and the work site are included in the service provider rate.