This Glossary is provided for those who use the DORS Fee Schedule for Community Rehabilitation Programs. The Division has not attempted to provide definitions that will be universally applicable. Rather, our intention is to provide definitions in the Glossary that will serve to reflect the meanings of the terms as they may be used in this Fee Schedule.
Accreditation
The process of insuring adherence and implementation of certain standards of quality in the provision of programs and services. Accreditation is provided through third party organizations such as CARF.
ABI – Acquired Brain Injury
An acquired brain injury (ABI) is an injury to the brain that is not hereditary, congenital, degenerative, or induced by birth trauma. Essentially, this type of brain injury is one that has occurred after birth.
ACT – Assertive Community Treatment
An evidence-based, team treatment approach designed to provide comprehensive community-based psychiatric treatment, rehabilitation and support to persons with serious and persistent mental illness such as schizophrenia. Individuals served by ACT teams are served by a team of professionals whose backgrounds and training include social work, rehabilitation, counseling, nursing and psychiatry. Services provided by ACT teams include: case management, initial and ongoing assessments, psychiatric services, employment and housing assistance, family support and education, substance abuse services, and other services and supports critical to an individual's ability to live successfully in the community.
BHA-Funded Job Coaching
Job coaching which is approved and funded by the Behavioral Health Administration.
CARF – Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities
An international accrediting organization.
Career Assessment Services (CAS)
An array of assessment options varying in intensity and scope. Availability of assessment options provides an individualized, timely and systematic process in which an individual, in partnership with the evaluator, can identify viable vocational options and develop employment goals and objectives. This process incorporates background information on education, behavioral characteristics, work history and medical/physical capabilities. This information may be used in combination with testing, work samples, situational assessments, community-based job tryouts, prevailing labor market data, occupational information, accommodations and modifications.
Career Assessment Services and descriptions:
Investigative Assessment
The purpose of the Investigative Assessment is to provide a DORS consumer a one-on-one meaningful virtual experience that would allow them to explore career interests in a shorter time frame than a standard face to face process. Within the process, information is developed that examines an individual’s strengths, interests, work values, and other factors related to potential employment excluding the provision of aptitude or academic testing. Aptitude and academic testing are not part of the Investigative Assessment.
The Investigative Assessment is the only virtual career assessment option.
Itemized Assessment
An individual assessment tool/instrument or method used to answer a very specific referral question. Example: "What is this person’s typing speed?" or "What is this person’s scores on a practice GED test?"
Focused Assessment
An Assessment to determine the feasibility of a specific chosen career area as a career goal (can include real or simulated work). Example: "Can this person learn and perform the duties and tasks of a secretary?" or "Does this person have the skills, temperaments, and behaviors to work in a management position?"
Exploratory Assessment
A process that uses career exploration resources and/or methods (excluding real or simulated work) designed to provide information on the next step in long range career planning for the individual. Taking into consideration the individual’s interests, needs, abilities, and functional limitations, it provides investigation and education in jobs and job clusters. Example: "What are this person’s general aptitudes, academic achievement levels and vocational interests?" or "What are this person’s transferable skills?"
Community-Based Assessment
A holistic assessment of an individual’s interests, needs and abilities in a job/worksite setting located in the community. This is an umbrella term representing a category of methods that looks at a person’s employment options, which may include situational assessment, on-the job evaluations, job try-outs or trials and supported employment assessment. Example: "Does this person demonstrate appropriate work behaviors on a job?" or "How much support/training would this person need to be employed in the community?"
Comprehensive Career Assessment
A holistic, broad-based intensive process, which is grounded in the use of real or simulated work that is individualized and answers questions that could not be answered by any other career assessment option. It incorporates a career planning process for an individual who faces the most severe vocational barriers or challenges. A combination of all typical assessment methods may be used. Example: "Due to a severe injury, this individual needs to change jobs. What can this person do?" or "Given this person’s poor work history, what other options are available?"
Council, The
The Council on Quality and Leadership in Supports for People with Disabilities (CQL) – a national accrediting organization.
CRP
Community Rehabilitation Program.
DDA-Funded Job Coaching
Job Coaching which is approved and funded by the Developmental Disabilities Administration.
DORS
Maryland State Department of Education, Division of Rehabilitation Services
Evidence-Based Practice Supported Employment (EBPSE)
A program which implements research-based principles and practices that have proven most effective in facilitating competitive integrated employment for individuals with severe and persistent mental illness. Behavioral Health Supported Employment Programs which practice EBPSE provide supported employment services that are integrated and coordinated with mental health treatment and rehabilitation. They are assessed and monitored by BHA for fidelity to the model.
EBPSE Milestone Payments
Periodic payments to providers of EBPSE in lieu of service hour allotments.
Federal I.D. Number
CRP Tax Identification Number.
Job Coaching (supported employment and short-term)
Job coaching services are, for the most part, provided to individuals in competitive integrated paid employment at the onset of employment and fade overtime according to the DORS fading schedule.
Job Development (supported employment and short-term job coaching)
This includes documented activities and outcomes related to seeking an appropriate job in a competitive integrated employment setting for an individual with a significant or most significant disability.
Job Development Prep
A service, typically provided prior to job coaching, that allows a provider to assist an individual with basic services necessary to obtain employment. Job Development Prep is available for a maximum of 8 hours to be broken down between developing (or updating)a resume, creating a cover letter, interviewing skills practice, and/or the development of a job search plan.
Job Seeking Skills
Counseling and/or training of individuals regarding the techniques for obtaining and maintaining employment.
Pre-Employment Transition Services (Pre-ETS)
Services authorized under WIOA that include:
- Job exploration counseling
- Work-based learning experiences
- Post-secondary counseling
- Workplace readiness
- Self-advocacy.
SEP
Supported Employment Program.
Short-Term Job Coaching
Time-limited job coaching services provided to persons not eligible for supported employment services.
Transportation
CRP-based transportation system used to transport individuals from their place of residence to the CRP for vocational services daily. Does not include transporting individuals to supported employment (Job Coaching) work sites. Counselors are to refer to
RSM 2, Section 717.04, Transportation, for guidance.
Work Adjustment Training (WAT)/Employee Development Services (EDS)
Individualized, transitional, time-limited services that assist individuals to develop or reestablish skills, attitudes, interpersonal skills, work behaviors, functional capacities, etc., to achieve positive employment outcomes. Can be provided directly to individuals seeking employment or through corporate employer/employee support programs. These services can be provided at job sites, within formal and organized training and educational settings, through counseling sessions, by tutorial services, or within the organization.
