In this webinar, Bill Moore, Deputy Director of the Vocational Rehabilitation Employment Division, and Kelly Hargreaves, Chief Counsel of Legal Affairs, both at the California Department of Rehabilitation, discussed: - How the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) differs from the Workforce Investment Act (WIA). - What it means for people with disabilities who want to work, including a focus on youth who are preparing to work.

1. Welcome to the USC UCEDD
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the Administration on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (AIDD)
Administration on Community Living
April 30, 2015

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Susan Kanegawa
USC UCEDD Family Support Coordinator
skanegawa@chla.usc.edu
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The USC University Center of Excellence in Developmental Disabilities at Children’s Hospital Los
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5. Employment and Disability:
The Workforce Innovation and
Opportunity Act (WIOA)
By the California Department of Rehabilitation’s
Bill Moore, Deputy Director
Vocational Employment Services Division
and
Kelly Hargreaves, Chief Counsel
April 30, 2015

6. About Our Presenters
The California Department of Rehabilitation (DOR) is an employment and independent
living resource for people with disabilities. DOR provides Vocational Rehabilitation
Services to Californians with disabilities who want to work. Their services include
employment counseling training and education, mobility and transportation aids, job
search and placement assistance.
Our presenters work for the California
Department of Rehabilitation in
Sacramento.
Bill Moore is the Deputy Director of the
Vocational Rehabilitation Employment
Division, and Kelly Hargreaves is Chief
Counsel of Legal Affairs.
http://www.rehab.cahwnet.gov/

7.  President Obama signed WIOA on July 22, 2014.
 WIOA changes the way that individuals with
disabilities may receive independent living
services and help going to work.
 Independent Living Centers and the Department
of Rehabilitation receive no new funds but need
to provide new and different services.
 We need to make decisions soon because most
of the changes were required starting last July!
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WIOA Overview

8. The Biggest Changes To…
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 Independent Living
Services
 Services DOR must
give to youth
including students
with disabilities
 Supported
Employment
Services
 Jobs Paying less
than minimum
wage for age 24
and younger
 One Stops (also
called American
Job Centers)

9. Independent Living
Independent Living Centers (ILCs) must
provide 5th core service, in order to help
individuals with disabilities to live in their
communities and to help youth with
changes from high school.
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10. Independent Living
New Core Service (3 parts)
 1. Help individuals with significant disabilities move
out of nursing homes and other institutions to home
and community-based residences, with supports
and services they need; and
 2. Help individuals with significant disabilities to
stay in their home or other place in their
community; and
 3. Help youth with significant disabilities, who were
eligible for an Individualized Education Plan, and
have completed high school or left high school, to
be independent.
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11. Services to Students With a
Disability (Ages 16 through 21)
 DOR must reserve at least 15% ($45Million) of
federal Vocational Rehabilitation Services grant
to provide Pre-Employment Transition Services
(PETS) to students with disabilities (age 16-21)
with no additional funds.
 PETS include 5 Required Services:
 Job exploration counseling;
 Work-based learning experiences;
 Counseling related to post-secondary
opportunities;
 Workplace readiness training; and
 Self-advocacy training.
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12. Students with a Disability
 For individuals with disabilities who are
DOR consumers, we must include
information about steps we’ll be taking
and supports in place, when the student
moves from high school, in their
Individualized Plan for Employment (IPE).
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13. More for Students
 Pre-Employment Transition Coordination:
 DOR must attend individualized education
program (IEP) meetings for students with
disabilities when invited.
 Each DOR office must work with local
workforce development boards, one-stop
centers, and employers to create work
opportunities for students with disabilities.
 Each DOR office must work with schools in
providing students with help as they
transition out of high school.
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14. Supported Employment (SE)
 SE means integrated, competitive
employment with supports such as job
coaching.
 Before WIOA, DOR could only provide SE
for up to 18 months unless there were
exceptional circumstances. Now DOR has
the option to provide SE for up to 24
months.
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15. “Customized Employment” is a
new type of Supported
Employment service based on
individual’s unique strengths,
needs and interests
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16. Competitive Integrated
Employment Project
 DOR, the Department of Developmental
Services, and the California Department of
Education has formed a Competitive
Integrated Employment (CIE) Workgroup to
improve competitive integrated employment
opportunities for individuals with intellectual
and development disabilities.
 By June, we expect to have a “Blue Print” with
goals for making improvements over the next
5 years.
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17. Extended Services
Support Services that individuals receive even after
their case is closed such as mental health services or
job coaching
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18. Subminimum Wage (SW)
 Subminimum wage is an amount of
money that an employee receives for
working that is not as high as the
minimum wage.
 Under WIOA, before someone age 24 or
younger may be placed in a job that
does not pay minimum wage, the
following things have to happen:
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19. What has to happen before a
person may be given less than
minimum wage?
 Receive Pre-employment transition services;
and
 Apply to DOR and
 either be found not eligible for services; or
 be found eligible but not be able to find
work at minimum wage or higher, for the
job described in their IEP, within a
reasonable amount of time even though
given supports and the vocational
rehabilitation case is closed; and
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20. Last Condition for
Subminimum Wage to Be OK
 Receive career counseling and
understand and want to work for the
employer for less than minimum wage.
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21. More About
Subminimum Wage
 If a person is already working in subminimum
wage, they can remain in that employment.
 The conditions apply beginning on July 22,
2016.
 Schools cannot have written agreements to
help find students jobs at subminimum wage.
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22. One-Stop Delivery Centers
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23. WIOA Changes
 DOR and others must help pay for the
costs of One Stop Centers (now also
known as American Job Centers)
 Local workforce development boards
need to check on the one-stop centers to
help us all make sure that everyone with a
disability can use the centers
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24. How Is
The Department of
Rehabilitation
Changing the Way it Does
Business Now?
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25. DOR Guiding Principles
 Persons with Disabilities Have the Right to Work
and Helping them Get Work is Most Important
in Making Decisions about Changes.
 We need to listen to individuals with disabilities
and others who have different perspectives
and experiences than we do, in order to
make the best decision.
 We need to be creative since we want to do
better but are not receiving more money to
do new things.
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26. What Have We Done So Far?
 Looked at the law
 Put DOR Experts in Charge of Finding
Solutions and Getting Advice from
Individuals with Disabilities and Others
 Held conference calls with hundreds of
interested Californians like you
 Met with advisory groups like the State
Rehabilitation Council, the Employment
First Committee and others
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27. What’s Next?
 We are considering different choices for
how we may better help individuals and
families like you.
 We hope to make changes in October
and will publish our changes on our web
page.
 We will make more changes if the
approaches that we take don’t work
better than the ones we have now.
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28. What do YOU
think we need
to do
differently?
www.dor.wioa.ca.gov
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