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INTERAGENCY COORDINATING GROUP
FOR ADULT LITERACY |
Funding Database: Search Result
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| Agency/Office |
Department of Education/Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services |
| Program Name |
Vocational Rehabilitation Grants to States |
| CFDA Number |
84.126 |
| Program Description |
The Vocational Rehab Grants to States program assist States in operating comprehensive, coordinated, effective, efficient and accountable programs of vocational rehabilitation. The program is designed to assess, plan, develop, and provide vocational rehabilitation services for individuals with disabilities, consistent with their strengths, resources, priorities, concerns, abilities, and capabilities so they may prepare for and engage in competitive employment. |
| Eligible Grantees |
State agencies in all States (including territories/possessions) designated as the sole State agency to administer the vocational rehabilitation program may apply. |
| Eligible Beneficiaries |
Eligibility for vocational rehabilitation services is based on the presence of a physical and/or mental impairment, which for such an individual constitutes or results in a substantial impediment to employment. |
| Historic Appropriation Level (in 000s) |
$2,720,192 |
| Eligible Activities |
Funds are used to cover the costs of providing vocational rehabilitation services which include: assessment, counseling, vocational and other training, job placement, reader services for the blind, interpreter services for the deaf, medical and related services and prosthetic and orthotic devices, rehabilitation technology, transportation to secure vocational rehabilitation services, maintenance during rehabilitation, and other goods and services necessary for an individual with a disability to achieve an employment outcome. |
| Program Contact |
Beverlee Stafford
Beverlee.Stafford@ed.gov
(202) 245-7533 |
| Program URL |
http://www.ed.gov/programs/rsabvrs/index.html |
Last Modified: 01/29/2007
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