Vocational Maintenance is a program of services that results after providing Supported Employment to approved individuals in the community.  It is direct services that help the individual retain employment after they have been successfully placed thru Supported Employment.  This service includes long term minimal supports for the individual in an effort to keep the person gainfully and competitively employed.  Services may include providing information relating to on the job problems, job related training or retraining, performing situational analysis, providing on the job guidance, consultation and technical assistance and other such services.  The 12 month a year service is delivered on as need basis and requires a minimum of a  monthly contact.

The goal of this service is provide direct personal support necessary to keep the individual employed and successfully involved in a competitive employment environment.  It may require activities such as: assist the individual with assimilating work skills/habits through planned training and intervention; to assist the individual living in the community in an integrated fashion as it directly relates to and impacts the work situation; to assist the person to overcome specific work or work related problems that create problems in the work place; to reduce or control the effects of barriers that exist for the person; to reduce or control dependency of the person; and to meet the overall demands of living and working in the community.

These services will be rendered based on an individually written plan which was developed based on the assessed needs of the individual.  The program case manager will assign a trained implementor matched with the individual to carry out the plan.  The implementor will provide narrative and other reports to the case manager as directed.  They will be directed and re-directed as needed.  These services may be of a monitoring nature to reinforce established work habits, skills, and patterns of the job itself.  They may, also, be an intervention where the implementor comes in and works directly with the person to correct work problems and/or providing retraining.  In some cases the services may be delivered in the home when there is a work related problem occurring in that setting or could better be dealt with in that setting.  The approach to this service has to be very flexible and very responsive to the individual’s needs so that the job will not be adversely effected.
 
 

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