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Texas Workforce Solutions – Vocational Rehabilitation Services

Texas Workforce Solutions - Vocational Rehabilitation Services offers transition services to prepare students with disabilities for life after school. The Transition program aims to minimize barriers and help students transition to competitive employment. Services include counseling, vocational training, job coaching, and more. Prepare for student independence and focus on work. Contact us for eligibility and application details.

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Texas Workforce Solutions – Vocational Rehabilitation Services

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  1. Texas Workforce Solutions – Vocational Rehabilitation Services TWS-VRS Introduction to Transition Services

  2. What is Transition? • Transition is a process that helps prepare students for life after leaving school. Transition planning helps to minimize barriers that the student could encounter in the transition phase from school to the working world.

  3. TWS-VRS Transition Program • The goal of the Transition program is to identify and begin working with students before they graduate so there isn’t a delay in getting the students on an employment path once they leave school. • We usually work with students in their last two years of high school or beginning at age 14, depending on the student’s need for services, to help move from school to integrative competitive employment. • There are 21 Transition Counselors (TVRCs) in the TWS-VRS Houston Region V. • Most schools have either a Transition Counselor or a Liaison Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor assigned.

  4. Coverage by: TVRC or Liaison Counselor • TVRC – Transitional Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor assigned to High Schools only. • Liaison Counselor – Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor assigned to schools located in the geographical area of the office. • TVRCs are only assigned high schools; Liaison Counselors also have an adult caseload.

  5. What services does TWS-VRS provide? TWS-VRS can provide almost any service necessary to assist an individual with a disability to go to work. Services are considered on an individual basis and must be reasonable and necessaryfor that person. For transition students, services may include: Counseling and Guidance, vocational or academic training (where appropriate), career exploration, job coaching or supported employment, psychological counseling, or medical services. Other services may include: Paid or volunteer work experience and temporary job placements.

  6. Services for Transition Age Youth: • Annual Transition Hiring Event • Autism psychological-educational groups • Vocational Adjustment Training • Work Experience coaching • Young Entrepreneur Training & Work Experience • Summer Camps/Activities – • CAMP FOR ALL • Project Leap • Summer Earn and Learn Internship

  7. What to prepare for if interested in applying? Prepare for: Requests for financial documents. A student will not be turned away for services based on their/their family’s income but any service that is not directly related to employment will require a review of a family’s financial information (i.e. paystub) and a determination of a family’s contribution to the cost of services. Evaluations may also be provided with no cost to the student/family.

  8. What to prepare for if interested in applying? Prepare for: Student independence. To best service the students, it will be necessary to have them participate in activities without parents/guardians, traveling alone (sometimes as far as Northern Houston), sleeping over night (camps) or speaking/advocating for themselves during meetings.

  9. What to prepare for if interested in applying? Prepare for: It’s about WORK. All of the services provided to students are for the sole purpose of helping the students gain or maintain employment. Texas Workforce Solutions – Vocational Rehabilitation Services is not an educational funding program. We may fund post-secondary education but only to assist those able to meet the academic standards set by colleges and training programs and will lead to viable employment opportunities upon graduating.

  10. What to prepare for if interested in applying? Note: This is NOT an entitlement program, everyone that applies is not entitled to be accepted into the program and, if accepted, students are NOT entitled to access all available services. The counselor decides what services are necessary.

  11. After applying, how will it be determined whether my child is eligible? The student has to: Have a physical and/or mental condition that affects their ability to work. Need vocational rehabilitation services in order to help the student get and/or keep a job. Be able to get and keep a job after receiving services.

  12. What happens once your child is successfully employed? Once a student is successfully employed for 90 days, the student’s case will be successfully closed. If additional services are needed, most services can be provided in “Post-Closure Services” which, is available within the first year after successful closure.

  13. Contact Information If interested in applying for services or wish to inquire further about the Texas Workforce Solutions – Vocational Rehabilitation Services, the transition liaison's contact information is below. Elizabeth Israel, M.S.Ed, CRC Transition Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor II Texas City Field Office 2000 Texas Avenue, Suite 950 Texas City, Texas 77590 (409)949-3907

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