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Division of Vocational Rehabilitation (DVR)

 What is the Purpose of Vocational Rehabilitation?

The Division of Vocational Rehabilitation (DVR) provides services for eligible persons with physical or mental impairments. These services are designed to enable you to prepare for, get, keep, or regain employment.

What Types of Services Does DVR Provide?

DVR offers other services which might be needed to assist you in your rehabilitation. Based on your disability and your vocational goal, you may require one or more of the following services:
  • Vocational Evaluation
  • Job Placement
  • Job Coaching
  • Speech and Language Therapy
  • Training and Education After High School
  • Medical and Psychological Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Career Planning
  • Counseling and Guidance
  • Assessment of Technology Needs
  • Rehabilitation Engineering Services
  • Support Services
  • On-Site Job/Task Analysis
Am I Eligible for DVR?

Eligibility for DVR services, as determined below, is based upon the presence of a physical or mental impairment and a goal of employment.

  • The physical or mental impairment constitutes or results in a substantial impediment to employment.
  • The individual’s employment outcome can benefit from vocational rehabilitation services.
  • The individual requires vocational rehabilitation services to prepare for, to get, to keep, or to regain employment.
An eligibility decision will be made within 60 days after you apply for services, unless circumstances prevent such a decision or you are involved in a trial work experience. If you are receiving Social Security Disability Insurance(SSDI) or Supplemental Security Income (SSI) for your disability, you are eligible for DVR services if you intend to secure employment.

DVR Consumer Application:

Consumer Appication (English)
Consumer Application (Spanish)

Local contacts:

Vocational Rehabilitation Services, (VR, Department of Education) North-Central
Vocational Rehabilitation Services, (VR, Department of Education) South


Agency for Persons with Disabilities, Inc.

Agency Mission

The Agency Supports Persons with Developmental Disabilities in Living, Learning and Working, in their Community.

Agency Goals

1. Ensure the well being and safety of the people we serve, and maximize self-sufficiency through the programs we provide.

  • Reduce the waitlist for services by implementing the Family & Supported Living Waiver expansion.
  • Increase the number of people employed in integrated settings.
  • Increase the independence of people receiving services through expansion of the Consumer Directed Care program and Florida Freedom Initiative.
  • Reduce reliance on large institutions as service settings.

2. Improve consumer outcomes and service quality.

  • Increase provider focus on achieving consumer outcomes through quality assurance reviews and quality improvement initiatives.
  • Work with Real Choice Systems Grant: a customer service approach to quality management in community-based service programs, to enhance consumer outcome results.
  • Implement core competency training for all persons providing direct care.

Local contacts:

http://ese.brevard.k12.fl.us/ICB/APD.html

More information about Agency for Persons with Disabilities:

http://apd.myflorida.com/about/

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