Vocational Futures Training

• Vocational Futures Planning (VFP) is a consumer-directed, team based comprehensive employment service that supports participants to obtain, maintain or advance in employment.
• The agency providing vocational futures planning services will ensure that it includes:
  • identification of the barriers to work, including and assistive technology pre-screen and, if required and in-depth comprehensive assessment
  • benefits analysis
  • resource team coordination
  • career exploration
  • job seeking support
  • ongoing support
• Vocational futures planning must be done by a team of qualified professionals that includes, at a minimum, an employment specialist, a benefits counselor and an assistive technology consultant.
• When this service is provided the member record must contain activity reports, completed by the VFP team and filed within thirty (30) days of completing each of the six required activities, and monthly ongoing support reports from the VFP team.
• Vocational futures planning exclude services that could be provided as supported employment or prevocational sheltered employment and work activity services