Common use of Interagency Collaboration Clause in Contracts

Interagency Collaboration. 1. By September 1, 2013, the State will develop and implement one or more interagency agreements or memoranda of understanding between BHDDH, ORS, and RIDE designed to ensure the full implementation of this Interim Agreement that addresses: a. Allocation of responsibility, funding commitments, and authority for conducting and ensuring the quality of all requirements of this Interim Agreement, including career planning, transition planning, outreach, in-reach, and education, training and professional development, Supported Employment and Integrated Day Services, and data collection, sharing, and reporting; b. Supported employment outcomes through coordination and collaboration between BHDDH, ORS, and RIDE; c. The compatibility of ORS and RIDE services with services funded through BHDDH by clarifying and streamlining interagency procedures and allowing for the blending and braiding of funding; and service gaps resulting from the transition from one funding stream to another funding stream, e.g. ORS funding to BHDDH funding, or special education funding to ORS funding, enabling individuals with I/DD to maintain uninterrupted integrated employment without unnecessary delays in services; d. Individual tailoring of the vocational rehabilitation assessment and job placement activities to serve people with the most significant disabilities, including individuals at TTP and Birch, who are eligible for ORS funding; and e. Coordinated outreach and in-reach efforts to individuals in the Target Populations conducted by vocational rehabilitation counselors and BHDDH representatives. 2. The State will develop and implement a memorandum of understanding with PPSD regarding any and all applicable funding issues, including but not limited to the costs of the Monitor, as well as the transition planning process set forth in Section VIII designed to ensure the full implementation of this Interim Agreement that will: a. Require ORS presence at Birch in order to collaboratively implement the Employment First Policy and related initiatives, and promote the presence and active engagement of vocational rehabilitation counselors on Birch employment planning teams and in planning meetings (including IEP meetings); b. Ensure the engagement of trained school transition specialists to assess and support students in transition to integrated supported employment; c. Require Birch special education staff and transition specialists to be trained to refocus transition services on supported employment instead of sheltered workshops, and to train special education directors and transition specialists on the requirements of the integration mandate of Title II of the ADA and Xxxxxxxx as applied to the youth transition planning process; d. Establish referral relationships with integrated, supported employment providers in Birch’s immediate service area; and e. Adopt mutual agency policies and procedures to ensure that the requirements of the integration mandate of Title II of the ADA and Xxxxxxxx are applied to the youth transition planning process including to situational work assessments, trial work experiences, post-secondary employment goals and outcomes, and ongoing professional development.