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Mission and Vision

ACCES-VR Mission

ACCES-VR assists individuals with disabilities to achieve and maintain employment and to support independent living through training, education, rehabilitation and career development. Our vision is that all individuals with disabilities who want to work will have the opportunity to achieve employment and independence.

ACCES-VR Customized Employment Vision

ACCES-VR believes that all people with disabilities are able to work and our services utilize a person-centered approach to assisting people with disabilities to achieve their employment goals. ACCES-VR aims to implement the provision of high-quality Customized Employment services to improve competitive integrated employment outcomes for individuals with disabilities, focusing on individuals with the most significant disabilities. 

ACCES-VR seeks to accomplish this vision through the following strategies:

Strategies:

  1. Systems Innovation & Collaboration
    • Incorporate customized employment into existing qualifications for supported employment and customized employment vendors.
    • Incorporate customized employment into existing policies, rate reimbursement strategies and service delivery practices/procedures.
    • Work to expand the number of qualified customized employment vendors .
    • Enhance collaboration with government, non-profit partners, and businesses to use customized employment to support individuals with the most significant disabilities in maintaining competitive integrated employment.
  2. Training
    • Provide customized employment training to vendors and ACCES-VR staff
    • Share customized employment information with government, non-profit and other stakeholders
  3. Quality Assurance & Sustainability
    • Support Customized Employment training and a community of practice.
    • Develop data tracking and analysis processes for the performance of service providers.
    • Incorporate customized employment into existing quality assurance efforts.
    • Develop and implement a Customized Employment sustainability plan.
    • Include customized employment in ongoing program evaluation and needs assessments.

Duration of Project: October 1, 2022 – September 30, 2027