VRTAC-QM

Data Literacy Training Part 3: VR Data and Analytics (QM2024-0102)

This is the third and final installment in VRTAC-QM’s three-part data literacy series. Because of the constantly evolving nature of today's world, accessing, understanding, analyzing, interpreting, and using quality data are essential for quality management of the VR program and overall organizational effectiveness. Part 3, VR Data and Analytics: Developing the Talent Tools for Quality Management of the VR Program, covers the importance of developing the talent and tools for VR data and analytics.

Data Literacy Training Part 2: A VR Culture Shift (QM2024-0101)

This is the second installment in VRTAC-QM's three-part data literacy series. Data: A VR Culture Shift covers the critical role culture plays in establishing and maintaining a data-driven organization.

Pre-Employment Transition Services Program Planning & Set-Aside Determination (QM2023-0901)

This webinar will review key elements from the revised set aside determination guide and Pre-ETS strategic planning guide and how these work in concert for planning. We will also dispel myths, discuss the Effect of Carryover, Reallotment, Relinquished, and Matched Non-Federal Funds on the Pre-ETS Reservation Requirement, and discuss key personnel and stakeholders who should be at the table.

Rapid Engagement in Vocational Rehabilitation Module 4 Reimagining Student and Youth Engagement: Awareness to Action (QM2023-0303)

This is the final installment of a four-part series on Rapid Engagement. This presentation focuses on bringing awareness to the power differential that exists within the youth-transition relationship and explains the importance of shifting from being the “adult” to being an active adult ally in order to support meaningful engagement of students and youth in the transition process. In addition, this presentation will explore a process that can help adults recognize and make the shift to being an adult ally and offer strategies to support the continuous engagement of students and youth.

Rapid Engagement in Vocational Rehabilitation Module 3 The Essential Role of VR Partners and Providers (QM2023-0302)

Rapid Engagement: The Essential Role of Partners and Providers is the third installment of a four-part series on Rapid Engagement. The first two presentations focus internally on rapid engagement applied to processes such as eligibility determination and plan development. This presentation focuses on the delivery of services outside of a State VR agency, emphasizing the importance of State VR agencies playing a lead role in the development of partners and resources needed to provide services in the most efficient manner. In addition, this presentation focuses on the importance of understanding current inter-agency processes and improving them to reflect the principles of rapid engagement highlighted in the previous presentations.

Participants are encouraged to read RSA Technical Assistance Circulars 15-01 and 15-02 that provide guidance around resource identification, partnership development and continuous improvement of processes to meet the needs of the customers and reach the vision of competitive integrated employment for persons including those with the most significant disabilities.

Enhancing Team Performance in the Eye of Organizational Storms (QM2023-0301)

Research shows that collaborative problem solving and teamwork are linked to better outcomes in organizations. Are you creating an environment in your organization that supports collaborative work and reaps the benefit of effective team work? This training provides an overview on enhancing your teams’ performance even in the midst of turbulent times.

RSA Data Dashboards (QM2022-0105)

The redesigned Case Service Report (RSA-911) Data Dashboards are now available in an accessible Excel workbook, which includes performance results for all State VR agencies and four previous quarters of RSA-911 data. This webinar recording explores how to optimally use the redesigned dashboards in a self-paced format.

Long COVID: Under What Circumstances Is It a Disability? (QM2022-0309)

The VRTAC-QM is pleased to announce the release of a webinar entitled: "Long COVID: Under What Circumstances Is It A Disability?" Your presenters, RoseAnn Ashby and Nichole Tichy discuss Long COVID and the symptoms and functional limitations that may result as well as the definitions of "disability" in both the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Vocational Rehabilitation program and how they may apply to Long COVID. In addition, the webinar will provide practical tips that will help you use the information you have gained regarding Long COVID and the applicable legislative guidelines for practices within Vocational Rehabilitation so that you can better assist individuals who present with this condition.

Rapid Engagement in Vocational Rehabilitation Module 2 Training for Counselors (QM2022-0308)

This second module in the series is a practical look at how VR counselors can apply rapid engagement strategies in their work to keep individuals with disabilities actively engaged throughout the VR process. The training reviews regulations relevant to the essential VR processes (e.g., handling referrals, taking applications, making eligibility determinations, developing Individualized Plans for Employment, and providing services leading to employment outcomes). Throughout this discussion, new methods of service delivery consistent with regulatory requirements are specifically highlighted so that counselors can provide efficient and effective support to individuals with disabilities seeking VR services. The training concludes with some case examples that will allow VR counselors to apply the information presented throughout this module so that they can more readily implement rapid engagement strategies in their service delivery practices.

Data Literacy Training Part 1: Essential Role of Data in VR (QM2022-0104)

This three-part series will provide relevant information for VR administrators, managers, and VR counselors to increase VR data literacy and data quality at all levels of the agency.