Cal. Code Regs. tit. 17 § 58830

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 50, December 13, 2024

Section 58830 - General Standards for Supported Employment Programs

(a) Supported Employment Program services consist of any combination of the allowable supports identified in the IPP and specified in the IHSP for a consumer as necessary to enable that consumer to perform integrated work for pay through a supported employment placement.

(b) Allowable supported employment services may include any of the following:

(1) Job development, as indicated in the IPP and the IHSP, and authorized by the regional center;

(2) Program staff time for conducting job analysis of supported employment opportunities for a specific consumer;

(3) Program staff time for the direct supervision or training of a consumer or consumers while they engage in integrated work unless other arrangements for consumer supervision, including, but not limited to, employer supervision reimbursed by the supported employment program, are approved by the regional center;

(4) Community-based training in adaptive functional and social skills necessary to ensure job adjustment and retention;

(5) Counseling with a consumer and or his or her family member or authorized representative to ensure support of a consumer in job adjustment;

(6) Advocacy or intervention on behalf of a consumer to resolve problems affecting the consumer's work adjustment or retention;

(7) Ongoing support services needed to ensure the consumer's retention of the job.

(8) Services and supports following a job loss;

(9) Job coach travel time for individual placement is billable as follows:

(A) Job coach travel time from the vendor's headquarters to the first consumer's work site is billable to the first consumer.

(B) The job coach travel time from the first consumer's worksite to the second consumer's worksite is billable to the second consumer.

(C) Job coach travel time for all subsequent consumers is billed in the same fashion until the job coach arrives at the last consumer's worksite. Travel from last consumer's worksite back to the vendor's headquarters is not billable.

(c) Supported Employment Program services shall be designated as either group services or individualized services.

(d) Group services shall be limited to:

(1) Job coaching provided at the worksite;

(2) Employment placements at a job coach-to-consumer ratio of not less than one-to-four nor more than one-to-eight except for those groups that may be authorized by the passage of the Trailer Bill to the Budget Act Fiscal Year 2004-05 to grand-father specific groups at a one-to-three consumer to job coach ratio:

(A) Services to a minimum of four consumers are funded by the regional center or the Department of Rehabilitation, and

(B) Consumers unable to participate due to illness or injury for a period not exceeding six (6) months are replaced by other consumers temporarily, for the purpose of maintaining the program's minimum coach-to-consumer ratio.

(C) A newly approved group begins with a minimum of three (3) consumers and increased to four (4) within ninety (90) days of starting.

(e) Individualized services:

(1) May be provided on or off the jobsite;

(2) Shall consist of job coaching and other supported employment services for regional center-funded consumers in a supported employment placement at a job coach-to-consumer ratio of one-to-one;

(3) Shall decrease over time until stabilization in the employment is achieved.

(f) Consumers in Supported Employment Programs receiving less than the minimum wage shall be paid according to productivity level on the basis of appropriately conducted productivity studies in compliance with Title 29, Part 525, of the Code of Federal Regulations; Section 1191.5 of the California Labor Code; and Sections 6 and 7 of the Industrial Welfare Commission Order No. 1, updated effective January 1, 2004.

Cal. Code Regs. Tit. 17, § 58830

1. New article 4 (sections 58830-58834) and section filed 7-22-2004 as an emergency; operative 7-22-2004 (Register 2004, No. 30). A Certificate of Compliance must be transmitted to OAL by 11-19-2004 or emergency language will be repealed by operation of law on the following day.
2. Repealed by operation of Government Code section 11346.1(g) (Register 2004, No. 49).
3. New article 4 (sections 58830-58834) and section refiled 11-29-2004 as an emergency; operative 11-29-2004 (Register 2004, No. 49). A Certificate of Compliance must be transmitted to OAL by 3-29-2005 or emergency language will be repealed by operation of law on the following day.
4. New article 4 (sections 58830-58834) and section refiled 3-30-2005 as an emergency; operative 3-30-2005 (Register 2005, No. 13). A Certificate of Compliance must be transmitted to OAL by 7-28-2005 or emergency language will be repealed by operation of law on the following day.
5. Certificate of Compliance as to 3-30-2005 order, including new subsections (b)(8)-(b)(8)(C) and amendment of subsections (d)(2) and (f), transmitted to OAL 6-21-2005 and filed 8-1-2005; amendments operative 8-31-2005 (Register 2005, No. 31).

Note: Authority cited: Section 11152, Government Code; and Section 4866, Welfare and Institutions Code. Reference: Sections 4851(j) and 4854, Welfare and Institutions Code.