VR Transition Services (National Technical Assistance Center on Transition: The Collaborative, NTACT:C)

Description:

Transition services is a term used to describe a set of services provided by schools and State vocational rehabilitation agencies. Both are designed improve post-school outcomes for students and youth with disabilities. The specific transition services VR and schools provide are a little different and designed to work together. The information below is about VR Transition Services, which focus on services related to employment.

Transition services provided by State vocational rehabilitation (VR) agencies to students with disabilities facilitate the transition from school to post-school life, such as achievement of an employment outcome in competitive integrated employment, or pre-employment transition services.

VR can provide transition services to an eligible student or youth with a disability in accordance with an approved Individual Plan for Employment (IPE).

Since the amendments to the Rehabilitation Act made by title IV of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA), the VR program can be characterized as providing a continuum of services beginning with pre-employment transition services for students with disabilities in the early stages of career and employment exploration.