OAR 411-345-0020: Definitions and Acronyms for Employment Services

In addition to the following definitions and acronyms, OAR 411-317-0000 includes general definitions for words and terms frequently used in OAR chapter 411, division 345. If a word or term is defined differently in OAR 411-317-0000, the definition in this rule applies. (1) "Benefits Counseling" means the supports, training, and planning about an individual's benefits delivered as an activity of employment path services. (2) “Career Development Plan (CDP)” is defined in OAR 407-025-0010 and described in OAR 407-025-0050 and OAR 411-345-0160. (3) "CDDP" means "Community Developmental Disabilities Program" as defined in OAR 411-317-0000. (4) "Competitive Integrated Employment" is defined in OAR 407-025-0010 consistent with the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (29 U.S.C. 705). (5) "Customized Employment" means competitive integrated employment for an individual with a disability that is: (a) Based on an individualized determination of the individual's strengths, needs, and interests; and (b) Designed to meet the individual's specific abilities and the employer's business needs. (6) "Discovery" is a time-limited, comprehensive, person-centered, and community-based employment planning support service to better inform an individual seeking an individualized job in a competitive integrated employment setting, create a Discovery Profile, and actively pursue competitive integrated employment. (7) "Discovery Profile" is a comprehensive and person-centered report produced as an outcome of discovery, represents an individual, and provides information to better inform employment service planning and job development activities. The Discovery Profile includes: (a) Information about the individual's strengths, interests, abilities, skills, experiences, and support needs. (b) Information about conditions and employment settings for the individual's success. (8) "Employment Path Services" mean services to provide learning and work experiences, including volunteer opportunities, for an individual to develop general, non-job-task-specific, strengths and skills that contribute to employability in an individualized job in a competitive integrated employment setting in the general workforce. Employment path services may also include individualized benefits counseling. (9) "Employment Professional" means an employee of a provider agency or an independent provider who has the qualifications and training to provide employment services under these rules. (10) "Employment Services" mean the home and community-based services that support the primary objective of exploring, obtaining, maintaining, or advancing an individual in an individualized job in a competitive integrated employment setting in the general workforce. (a) Employment services under these rules include the following: (A) Supported employment. (i) Individual supported employment. (I) Job coaching. (II) Job development. (ii) Small group employment support. (B) Discovery. (C) Employment path services. (D) Attendant care in competitive integrated employment settings. (b) Employment services do not include: (A) Vocational assessments in sheltered workshop settings or facility-based settings. (B) New participants in sheltered workshop settings. (11) "Endorsement" is defined in OAR 411-323-0020. (12) "Evidence-Based Practices" means well-defined best practices, which have been demonstrated to be effective by multiple peer-reviewed research studies specific to the relevant population or subset of that population. (13) "Executive Director" is defined in OAR 411-323-0020. (14) "General Community Employer" means a typical community setting that: (a) Employs a workforce that is reflective of the general population; and (b) Is not a setting designed to hire or provide services for individuals with disabilities. (15) "Individual Supported Employment" means job coaching or job development services to obtain, maintain, or advance in an individualized job in a competitive integrated employment setting in the general workforce, including customized employment or self-employment. (16) "Integrated Employment Setting" is defined in OAR 407-025-0010 consistent with the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (29 U.S.C. 705). (17) "ISP" means "Individual Support Plan" as defined in OAR 411-317-0000. (18) "Job Coaching" means support for an individual to maintain or advance in an individualized job in a competitive integrated employment setting in the general workforce, including customized employment or self-employment. (19) "Job Development" means support for an individual to obtain an individualized job in a competitive integrated employment setting in the general workforce, including customized employment or self-employment. (20) "PRN" means the administration of medication to an individual on an 'as needed' basis (pro re nata). (21) "Provider Agency" is defined as "Agency" in OAR 411-323-0020. (22) "Sheltered Workshop" means a facility in which individuals with disabilities are congregated for the purpose of receiving employment services and performing work tasks for pay at the facility. The Department does not fund employment services in sheltered workshop settings in accordance with OAR 407-025-0020. (a) A sheltered workshop primarily employs individuals with disabilities, including intellectual or developmental disabilities, with the exception of service support staff. (b) A sheltered workshop is a fixed site that is owned, operated, or controlled by a provider agency and where an individual has few or no opportunities to interact with people who do not experience a disability, not including paid support staff. (c) A sheltered workshop is not small group employment in an integrated employment setting and is not otherwise an integrated employment setting. (23) "Small Group Employment Support" means services and training activities provided in regular business, industry, and community settings for groups of two to eight individuals with disabilities. Small group employment support is provided in a manner that promotes integration into the workplace and interaction in the workplace between individuals and people not experiencing a disability. (24) "These Rules" mean the rules in OAR chapter 411, division 345. (25) "Vocational Assessment" means an assessment administered to an individual to provide employment related information essential to the development of, or revision of, the individual's employment related planning documents.