Eligibility
To receive employment development services, a person must:
- Be eligible for Brain Injury (BI), Community Access for Disability Inclusion (CADI), Community Alternative Care (CAC) or Developmental Disabilities (DD) waiver services
- Have employment development services as an assessed need in their support plan
- Not have access to the same services through Vocational Rehabilitation Services/State Services for the Blind (VRS/SSB) or Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).
Covered Services
Employment development services consist of both job development services and self-employment/microenterprise development services. This section includes information about covered services.
Employment development services also include a plan phase and a find phase. Services must be authorized and provided under one of these phases. For information about each phase, including expected outcomes of the plan phase, see the service phases section.
Job Development Services
Requires direct contact (in person or remote participation)
Covered job development services that require direct contact with the person include:
Individualized, strengths-based assessments and employment opportunity discovery strategies
(Note: This planning phase should not exceed 120 days of service delivery)
- Support during new employee orientation for up to 30 days after a person starts a new job position
- In-service transportation
- Skills training to find and succeed in a job (e.g., interviewing, using community resources, resume writing)
- Progress review and reporting meetings.
Does not require direct contact (services provided on behalf of the person)
Covered job development services that do not require direct contact with the person include:
- Employment search assistance and support
- Benefit(s) fact-gathering, review and analysis to determine how benefits will interact with employment
- Help with negotiating and finalizing terms of employment
- Development of job applications, resume and cover letters
- Outreach with community businesses about available employment opportunities.
Self-employment and microenterprise business development services
Requires direct contact
Covered self-employment and microenterprise business development services that require direct contact with the person include:
- Help with determining the type of business the person wants to establish
- Consultation with the person about all business development activities and plans
- Help with choosing and registering an available and marketable business name)
- In-service transportation
- Progress review and reporting meetings.
Does not require direct contact
Covered self-employment and microenterprise business development services that do not require direct contact include collaborating with the person to:
- Write a business plan
- Find sources of start-up financing
- Establish a legal structure for the business
- Create a marketing and sales plan
- Find a location and get the appropriate certifications, licenses, permits and variances
- Purchase all necessary insurances
- Develop business forms, records, bookkeeping and accounting systems
- Perform benefit(s) fact gathering, review and analysis to determine how benefits will interact with self-employment.
None Covered Services
Employment development services do not cover:
- Incentive payments (e.g., payments to an employer to encourage or subsidize the employer’s participation in a development program)
- Payments for vocational training that is not directly related to the person’s development program
- Direct compensation to supplement a person’s wage
- Special education services available and funded under IDEA or vocational services available and funded under Section 110 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973
- Vocational services in facility-based or sheltered workshop settings.
