Helps participants access needed employment services and other supports. Navigators also help coordinate between various services, including other medical, social, and educational services, regardless of funding source. This service is provided by State staff.

• Career Exploration and Assessment
• Supported Employment – Individual
• Supported Employment – Small Group
• Benefits Counseling
• Financial Coaching
• Non-Medical Transportation
• Personal Care (including a self-directed component)
• Orientation, Mobility, Assistive Technology

Helps participants identify a career plan and jobs that match their interests, abilities and skills.

Designed for those who want to work or who are already employed but need continued support or skills training in order to find or keep a job, earn additional hours or higher-level positions. Services may be individual or small-group:

• Individual Supported Employment – one staff member to one service recipient
• Small Group Supported Employment – one staff member to 2-4 service recipients who work together as a “crew.”

Helps participants and their family understand how to maintain necessary benefits while working.

Helps participants develop financial strategies identified through benefits counseling to increase self-sufficiency.

Arranged by a transportation broker, this service is only for participants with no other way to get to and from their job.

Assistance with daily activities to help the participant get ready for work or in the workplace. Services can be provided by a home health agency, a personal assistance services agency, or be self-directed.

Helps participants develop skills using white canes, guide dogs or other assistive technology to travel independently and safely.

• Individuals with visual impairments learn to use remaining senses to determine their position within the environment and negotiate safe movement from one place to another.
• Assistive technology services include evaluation of the technology need, training, custom fitting, maintenance, and repair. This service only covers assistive technology that it not otherwise covered by the traditional State Medicaid plan.