What are the roles of Workforce Investment Act programs (One-Stops/Career Centers) and Vocational Rehabilitation in CE?
CE is specifically designed for anyone living a complex life. In this instance, we are considering people with significant disabilities. Both WIA and VR programs are vital partners in creating wage employment and/or small business ownership. Both systems can individually and collaboratively braid or amalgamate funding with other systems (CRPs or school transition programs, for instance). As an example, one young man with a diagnosis of autism needed funds for a small business start-up, as well as on-going support to make deliveries across town. The CRP funded an employment specialist to do the driving several hours a day for the first year, until the young business owner could afford to hire his own employee to do the driving; VR purchased auto repairs for a vehicle donated by his family; and WIA, under a CE demonstration project, purchased several thousand dollars in production equipment. In other cases, a Plan for Achieving Self Support (PASS) can also be used in combination with VR,
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