Vocational Rehabilitation Services

1. What do you mean by Vocational Rehabilitation Services?

   Vocational Rehabilitation is a special program that provides personal occupational rehabilitation and other related supportive services to assist the eligible individuals with disabilities which may be physical or mental to get and continue jobs which are compatible with their skills, abilities and other constraints.
   

2. Who provides the vocational rehabilitation services?

   The Division of Rehabilitation Services commonly known as DRS of Department of Human Services, Government of United States of America provides the vocational rehabilitation for the people with a disorder.

3. What are eligibility criteria to get admission for the vocational rehabilitation services?

   There are different criteria which a person needs to complete in order to get admission to the vocational rehabilitation services.

   

   • The person must be a green card holder or he must have 10 years of professional experience in the United States of America.
   • He must be the individual with a disability, i.e. he must have a mental and/or physical impairment which considerably affects his working ability and hence he is not getting the job.
   • The individual's condition must be such that in a position to be benefited from the vocational rehabilitation services in order to achieve a convincing employment outcome.
   • He is in real need of the vocational rehabilitation services for preparing for the employment.
   • Individuals on whom the family income is dependent are preferred for the rehabilitation.

4. What is a procedure to get admission?

   The individual who is interested in getting the admission to the course have to go through the following procedure.

   • To contact the nearest vocational rehab services office by either in person, phone, email or fax.
   • Filling up the application form and submitting it to the department.
   • After this, a vocational rehab administrative person meets the patient and gives him an idea about the eligibility criteria. Patients are also informed about the paperwork required and estimated time for the treatment.
   • Providing the papers including, nationality, work experience, rehab service to opt for and others as asked for by the department.
   • The department verifies all the papers and authenticates the legitimacy of the case.
   • Based on this analysis, the department officials decide whether or not to accept the case.

5. What is the procedure of vocational rehabilitation services?
   • After the admission is granted, the individual is first approached by a physician and a vocational rehab expert. They figure out the exact disability and decide the line of rehab treatment.
   • Then the patient is approached by a psychiatrist. The psychiatrist helps to boost the self confidence of the person, which is drastically low after hit by the injury. A person with increased confidence can give better response to the rehab treatment.
   • Other rehab experts like exercise trainers, nurses, helpers, execute the vocational treatment and train the person in performing some specific tasks.
   • After the rehab is over, the person is placed in an organization such that he can perform the job responsibilities without getting prevented by his injury or disability.
   • This helps to make the patient economically independent.

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