Vocational Rehabilitation Program Sample Clauses

Vocational Rehabilitation Program. The Vocational Rehabilitation Program offers a wide range of employment-focused services to assist adults with disabilities in preparing for, obtaining and maintaining employment. To be eligible to receive vocational rehabilitation services in the Province of Manitoba, the applicant must meet the following eligibility conditions: • Be living with a mental, physical, psychiatric, vision, hearing or learning disability; • Be a Canadian citizen or a person legally entitled to remain and work in Canada on a permanent basis; • Be a resident of Manitoba; • Be 16 years of age or older; and • Show a willingness to prepare for, obtain and maintain employment. Applications for services must include proof of a qualifying disability that has been diagnosed or assessed by an appropriate professional. The objective of the Vocational Rehabilitation Program is to provide appropriate vocational rehabilitation services for adults with disabilities in Manitoba in order to enhance their independence and ability to contribute socially and economically through employment in the competitive labour force. The Vocational Rehabilitation Program assists eligible persons with disabilities to prepare for, attain and maintain employment through the provision of vocational assessments, counselling, case management, vocational planning, job placement, training, developmental activities and support services. The Individual Vocational Rehabilitation Training Fund may be accessed for disability related supports such as special equipment and adaptive devices, tutoring, medical and psychological assessments, sign language interpreting, wage subsidies, educational support and transportation. The Vocational Rehabilitation Program is delivered by Vocational Counsellors in Manitoba Family Services and Housing regional offices, Regional Health Authorities and three designated agencies that receive provincial funding to deliver services to specific disability groups. The three designated agencies are: • The Canadian National Institute for the Blind-MB Division (CNIB) – provides vocational assessment, training, counselling, job placement services and adjustment training programs for daily living for participants with visual disabilities; • Canadian Paraplegic Association (CPA) (Manitoba) Inc.– provides counselling, assessment, vocational training and job placement services to participants with spinal cord injuries; and • Society for Manitobans with Disabilities Inc. (SMD) – provides assessment, coun...
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Vocational Rehabilitation Program. The Vocational Rehabilitation Program offers a wide range of employment-focused services to assist adults with disabilities in preparing for, obtaining and maintaining employment in order to enhance their independence and ability to contribute socially and economically through employment in the competitive labour force. The Vocational Rehabilitation Program is delivered by Vocational Counsellors in Manitoba Family Services and Consumer Affairs regional offices, the Regional Health Authorities and three designated agencies that receive provincial funding to deliver services to specific disability groups. The three designated agencies are:  Canadian National Institute for the Blind-MB Division (CNIB) Provides vocational assessment, training, counselling, job placement services and adjustment training programs for daily living for participants with visual disabilities;  Canadian Paraplegic Association (CPA) (Manitoba) Inc. Provides counselling, assessment, vocational training and job placement services to participants with spinal cord injuries; and  Society for Manitobans with Disabilities (SMD) Inc. Provides assessment, counselling, vocational training and job placement services to individuals with physical and hearing disabilities. The Vocational Rehabilitation Program also purchases evaluation, work training, placement, school-to-work transition and follow-up services from seven Employment and Training Centres. These centres share a common goal of assisting program participants to prepare for, obtain and maintain employment. Each centre has developed its own method of achieving this objective and serves a different disability group. The seven centres are:  Career Connections Inc. – located in Brandon, provides work assessment, work training and follow-up services to individuals with a mental, physical, psychiatric, or learning disability in western Manitoba;  Employment Preparation Centre – located in Winnipeg and operated by the Society for Manitobans with Disabilities Inc. to provide work assessment, work training and follow-up services to persons with a physical, psychiatric or learning disability in central, eastern, northwest and northern Manitoba;  Connect Employment Services Ltd. – located in Winnipeg, provides work assessment, work training and follow-up services to persons with a mental disability;  Premier Personnel Corp. – located in Winnipeg, provides school- to-work transition services and follow-up services to persons with a mental dis...
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Vocational Rehabilitation Program. The Vocational Rehabilitation Program offers a wide range of employment-focused services to assist adults with disabilities in preparing for, obtaining and maintaining employment. The objective of the Vocational Rehabilitation Program is to provide appropriate vocational rehabilitation services for adults with disabilities in Manitoba in order to enhance their independence and ability to contribute socially and economically through employment in the competitive labour force. The Vocational Rehabilitation Program assists eligible persons with disabilities to prepare for, attain and maintain employment through the provision of vocational assessments, counselling, case management, vocational planning, job placement, training, developmental activities and support services. The Individual Vocational Rehabilitation Training Fund may be accessed for disability-related supports such as special equipment and adaptive devices, tutoring, medical and psychological assessments, sign language interpreting, wage subsidies, educational support and transportation. The Vocational Rehabilitation Program is delivered by Vocational Counsellors in Manitoba Family Services and Housing regional offices, the Regional Health Authorities and three designated agencies that receive provincial funding to deliver services to specific disability groups. The three designated agencies are: • Canadian National Institute for the Blind-MB Division (CNIB) – provides vocational assessment, training, counselling, job placement services and adjustment training programs for daily living for participants with visual disabilities; • Canadian Paraplegic Association (CPA) (Manitoba) Inc.– provides counselling, assessment, vocational training and job placement services to participants with spinal cord injuries; and • Society for Manitobans with Disabilities Inc. (SMD) – provides assessment, counselling, vocational training and job placement services to individuals with physical and hearing disabilities. The Vocational Rehabilitation Program also purchases evaluation, work training, placement, school-to-work transition and follow-up services from seven non-profit centres. These centres share a common goal of assisting program participants to prepare for, obtain and maintain employment. Each centre has developed its own method of achieving this objective and serves a different disability group. The seven centres are: • Career Connections Inc. – Evaluation and Training Centre in Brandon providing work ass...
Sample 1

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  • Rehabilitation Program The company agrees to the implementation of an agreed worker’s compensation rehabilitation policy. The operation of this policy shall be reviewed on a regular basis. The parties commit to ensuring that the rehabilitation of injured workers is an accepted practice, and that suitable duties are provided when available. No employee will be terminated whilst on workers compensation during the first 12 months without prior consultation with the union. The parties agree that the person responsible for the management of rehabilitation cases must be adequately trained to do the job. If such a person is not available within the company, then the services of an agreed building industry rehabilitation coordination service will be used. The parties to this Agreement shall ensure that any employee who sustains a work related injury, illness or disease, will be afforded every assistance in utilising a rehabilitation program aimed at returning that employee to meaningful employment within the industry.

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  • Rehabilitation The Employer may use the results of the drug and alcohol test to require the employee to successfully complete a rehabilitation plan.

  • Rehabilitative Employment (a) During a period of total disability under this plan, a disabled employee may engage in rehabilitative employment in which case the benefit from this plan will be reduced by 50% of the employee's rehabilitative employment income that exceeds $50 per month. The benefit from this plan will be further reduced by the amount that remuneration from rehabilitative employment plus the benefit from the L.T.D. plan exceeds 75% of the employee's basic wage at date of disability.

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  • Dependent Care Assistance Program The County offers the option of enrolling in a Dependent Care Assistance Program (DCAP) designed to qualify for tax savings under Section 129 of the Internal Revenue Code, but such savings are not guaranteed. The program allows employees to set aside up to five thousand dollars ($5,000) of annual salary (before taxes) per calendar year to pay for eligible dependent care (child and elder care) expenses. Any unused balance is forfeited and cannot be recovered by the employee.

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