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Details for Service Vocational Rehabilitation Job Development and Job Placement
Service Name Vocational Rehabilitation Job Development and Job Placement Program Name Families with Identified Needs - Employment Services
Goal Provide services and supports to individuals and families experiencing health and safety needs to assist them in living successfully in the community.
Objective Assure that families who are experiencing economic jeopardy receive employment services to mitigate health and safety risks.
Division Division of Services for the Blind
Service Description

Job Development and Job Placement services help blind, deaf/blind or visually impaired eligible North Carolina residents, find employment in the field of their choice. A rehabilitation counselor and support staff may provide:

 

-Job readiness training

-Help in matching the skills and interests of the individual with jobs located in companies in their area

-Follow-up with the individual and the employer to ensure success on the job


Specialized job development, job placement and follow-up services are provided by the rehabilitation counselor and support staff. These services will assist the blind, deaf/blind and visually impaired eligible individuals to locate employment in the field of their vocational choice. Skills and interests of individuals are used to match them with jobs located in companies in their area. Job readiness training is provided by the rehabilitation counselor, who stays in touch with the individual and with the employer to ensure success on the job.
Web Site www.ncdhhs.gov/dsb/employment.htm Year First Initiated 1935
Available State Wide Yes Geographic Area Served
Grants Provided No Competitive Bidding No
Competitive Bidding Details
Waiting List No Waiting List Start Date
Number Waiting
Waiting List Details

Income Eligibility
Income Eligibility No
Income Eligibility Method This service is provided to eligible individual without regard to income and no economic needs test is applied.
Income Eligibility Type This service is provided to eligible individual without regard to income and no economic needs test is applied.
Whose Income Eligibility This service is provided to eligible individual without regard to income and no economic needs test is applied.
Income Disregard No
Income Disregard Desc This service is provided to eligible individual without regard to income and no economic needs test is applied.
Income Verified No
Income Verified Method Self-Report
Income Criteria This service is provided to eligible individual without regard to income and no economic needs test is applied.
Income Eligibility Change 1/1/1901
Income Eligibility Method Prior To Change This service is provided to eligible individual without regard to income and no economic needs test is applied.
Income Eligibility Other

Target Population
Age Range Start Age Range End
14 100+

Legal Authority
Authorization Level Authorization Type Citation
Federal Public Law Rehabilitation Act as amended 1998

Budget Information
State Fiscal Year (SFY) 2021
As of the month of November 2020
Authorized Budget Fiscal Year 2021 SFY 2020-2021 Year To Date Expenditures Balance
Salary and Fringes (1X) 1,457,464 518,224 939,240
Salary Other (1X) 0 0 0
Operating (2X-5X) 98,672 1,276 97,396
Contracts/Allocations (6X) 25,300 11,161 14,139
Reserves (7X) 0 0 0
Transfers (8X) 0 0 0
Total Requirements 1,581,436 530,661 1,050,775
Receipts-Federal 1,223,049 360,106 862,943
Receipts- Local receipts 0 0 0
Receipts- Other receipts 203,871 0 203,871
Total Receipts 1,426,920 360,106 1,066,814
General Fund Appropriations 154,516 170,555 -16,039
Match
State Local Other
0 0 0
 
MOE
State Local
0 0
 
FTEs
0.00
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