SECTIONS 19150-19154 - California Statutes

WELFARE AND INSTITUTIONS CODE

SECTION 19150-19154

19150. (a) The term "vocational rehabilitation services" means the
following services and goods:
(1) An assessment for determining eligibility and vocational
rehabilitation needs by qualified personnel, including if
appropriate, an assessment by personnel skilled in rehabilitation
technology or an assessment for supported employment as an employment
outcome.
(2) Counseling, guidance, and work-related placement services for
persons with disabilities, including job search assistance, placement
assistance, job retention services, personal assistance services,
followup services, and specific postemployment services necessary to
assist those individuals in maintaining, regaining, or advancing in
their employment, both competitive and supported.
(3) Training services for persons with disabilities, which shall
include personal and vocational adjustment, books, and other training
materials.
(4) Auxiliary aide services, such as reader services for
individuals who are blind and interpreter services for individuals
who are deaf.
(5) Job coaching services that may include any of the following:
(A) On-the-job skill training.
(B) Observation or supervision at the worksite.
(C) Consultation or training, or both, of coworkers and
supervisors.
(D) Assistance in integrating into the work environment.
(E) Destination training.
(F) Assistance with public support agencies.
(G) Family and residential provider consultation.
(H) Any other on- or off-the-job support services needed to
reinforce and stabilize job placement.
(6) Recruitment and training services for persons with
disabilities to provide them with new employment opportunities in the
fields of rehabilitation, health, welfare, public safety, and law
enforcement, and other appropriate service employment.
(7) Physical and mental restoration services, including, but not
limited to, the following:
(A) Corrective surgery or therapeutic treatment necessary to
correct or substantially modify a physical or mental condition which
is stable or slowly progressive and constitutes an impediment to
employment, but is of such a nature that the correction or
modification may reasonably be expected to eliminate or substantially
reduce the impediment to employment within a reasonable length of
time.
(B) Necessary hospitalization in connection with surgery or
treatment.
(C) Prosthetic and orthotic devices.
(D) Eyeglasses and visual services as prescribed by a physician
skilled in the diseases of the eye or by an optometrist.
(8) Maintenance, not exceeding the additional costs incurred while
participating in rehabilitation.
(9) Occupational licenses, tools, equipment, and initial stocks
and supplies.
(10) Rehabilitation technology services, which shall include
rehabilitation engineering and assistive technology services and
devices.
(11) On-the-job or other related personal assistance services
provided to an individual with a disability who is receiving other
vocational rehabilitation services.
(12) Transition services to students, pursuant to cooperative
agreements established under Section 19013, that promote or
facilitate the accomplishment of long-term rehabilitation goals and
intermediate rehabilitation objectives.
(13) Referral and other services designed to assist individuals
with disabilities in securing needed services from other agencies
through agreements developed pursuant to Section 19013.
(14) The provision of other programs and services when provided
for the benefit of groups of individuals, including, but not limited
to, any of the following:
(A) In the case of any type of small business operated by
individuals with severe disabilities, the operation of which can be
improved by management services and supervision provided by the
department, the provision of those services and supervision, alone or
together with the acquisition by the department of vending stands
and other equipment and initial stocks and supplies.
(B) The establishment, development, or improvement of community
rehabilitation programs that promise to contribute substantially to
the rehabilitation of a group of individuals but that are not related
directly to the rehabilitation plan of any one individual with a
disability, providing the program is used to provide services that
promote integration and competitive employment, including supported
employment.
(C) Technical assistance and support services to businesses that
are not subject to Subchapter 1 (commencing with Section 12111) of
Chapter 126 of Title 42 of the United States Code and that are
seeking to employ individuals with disabilities.
(15) Transportation in connection with the rendering of any other
vocational rehabilitation service.
(16) Any other goods and services necessary to render a person
with disabilities employable.
(17) Services to the families of persons with disabilities when
those services will contribute substantially to the rehabilitation of
those individuals.
(b) For the purposes of subdivision (a), full consideration of
eligibility for any comparable service or benefit shall be utilized
to the extent permitted by federal law.

19151. (a) The term "individual with a disability" means any
individual who:
(1) Has a physical or mental impairment which constitutes or
results in a substantial impediment to employment.
(2) Can benefit in terms of an employment outcome from vocational
rehabilitation services provided pursuant to this chapter.
(b) The term "Individual with a severe disability" shall have the
same meaning as specified in the federal Rehabilitation Act and
includes, but is not limited to, any individual who has a disability
or is blind as determined pursuant to Subchapter 2 (commencing with
Section 401) and Subchapter 16 (commencing with Section 1381) of
Chapter 7 of Title 42 of the United States Code.

19152. (a) "Community rehabilitation program" means a program which
is operated for the primary purpose of providing directly or
facilitating the provision of vocational rehabilitation services to
persons with disabilities and which provides singly or in combination
one or more of the following services to enable persons with
disabilities to maximize opportunities for employment, including
career advancement:
(1) Comprehensive rehabilitation services which shall include,
under one management, medical, psychological, social, and vocational
services.
(2) Testing, fitting, or training in the use of prosthetic and
orthotic devices.
(3) Recreational therapy.
(4) Physical and occupational therapy.
(5) Speech, language, and hearing therapy.
(6) Psychiatric, psychological, and social services.
(7) Personal and work adjustment.
(8) Vocational training (in combination with other rehabilitation
services).
(9) Evaluation or control of special disabilities.
(10) Assessment for determining eligibility and vocational needs,
including evaluation for supported employment, development, and
placement in jobs.
(11) Development of, and placement in, jobs.
(12) Job coaching services to enable a person with disabilities to
obtain or maintain supported or competitive employment.
(13) Extended employment for persons with severe disabilities who
cannot be readily absorbed into the competitive labor market.
(14) Personal assistance services.
(15) To the extent provided under federal law, services similar to
the services described in paragraphs (1) to (13), inclusive.
(b) All medical and related health services shall be prescribed
by, or under the formal supervision of, persons licensed to practice
medicine or surgery in the state.

19153. The term, "blind person" means either a person who has not
more than 20/200 central visual acuity in the better eye after
correction, or a person who has visual acuity greater than 20/200 but
with a limitation in the fields of vision such that the widest
diameter of the visual field subtends an angle no greater than 20
degrees. Such blindness shall be certified by a licensed physician
and surgeon who specializes in diseases of the eye or a licensed
optometrist.

19154. Establishment of a community rehabilitation program means
the acquisition, expansion, remodeling, or alteration of existing
buildings necessary to adapt them to community rehabilitation program
purposes or to increase their effectiveness for such purposes
(subject, however, to such limitations as the federal government or
the director may, by regulation, prescribe in order to prevent
impairment of the objectives of, or duplication of, other laws
providing assistance in the construction of such facilities for
community rehabilitation programs), and may include additional
equipment and staffing permitted by federal law or regulation.