New Jersey: Health & Disability Programs

New Jersey Department of Children and Families’ (DCF) Division of Child Behavioral Health Services DCF provides families with one point of contact that registers, tracks and coordinates care for children who are screened into its Children’s Behavioral Health Service System of Care; DCF contracts with PerformCare, a private entity that administers this service system that includes  […]

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New Hampshire: Health & Disability Programs

New Hampshire Department of Education’s Vocational Rehabilitation, Services for Blind and Visually Impaired Services for Blind and Visually Impaired provides needed services (mostly free) to help people with visual loss to enter, re-enter, or maintain employment.  Rehabilitation services can include: consultation on the Americans with Disabilities Act, job and task analysis; reasonable job accommodation; counseling […]

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Nevada: Health & Disability Programs

Nevada Department of Employment’s Training and Rehabilitation, Rehabilitation Division, Bureau of Services to the Blind and Visually Impaired (BSBVI) BSBVI provides services to eligible individuals, including adaptive training, which  provides individualized training in home management, Braille, low vision aids, communication, and vocational skills; the Business Enterprise Program, which prepares legally blind people to operate food […]

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Nebraska: Health & Disability Programs

Nebraska Department of Education’s Vocational Rehabilitation (Voc Rehab) Voc Rehab serves people with disabilities except consumers who are blind or visually impaired; these individuals are served by the Commission for the Blind and Visually Impaired.  Voc Rehab staff provides services locally in multiple offices throughout the state, as well as in schools, one-stop centers, mental […]

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Missouri: Health & Disability Programs

Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education’s Division of Vocational Rehabilitation The Division is comprised of: vocational rehabilitation, which includes guidance and counseling, job-seeking skills and job placement, and vocational training, and provides assistance with transition services, supported employment services, assistive technology services, and the Ticket to Work Program; disability determination services, which determines medical […]

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Minnesota: Health & Disability Programs

Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development’s Services for the Blind (SSB) SSB helps people who are blind, visually impaired, or Deafblind to live and work as independently as possible by providing training to adjust to blindness and vision loss, exploring assistive technology, and teaching adults how to prepare for, attain, and keep jobs. 2200 […]

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Maine: Health & Disability Programs

Maine Bureau of Rehabilitation Services’ Division for the Blind and Visually Impaired The goal of vocational rehabilitation services is to help people retain or return to employment.  Services include:  individual counseling and guidance; vocational assessment; orientation and mobility instruction to develop independent travel skills; other training, devices, treatment, job placement and follow-up services to enable […]

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Louisiana: Health & Disability Programs

Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals’ Chronic Disease Prevention and Control Unit, Asthma Management and Prevention Program This program enhances the quality of life of people with asthma by providing workshops on asthma management education to patients, their families, and communities impacted by this chronic disease. 628 North 4th Street Baton Rouge, LA  70802 (225) 342-2657 http://www.dhh.louisiana.gov/offices/?ID=287 […]

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Kentucky: Health & Disability Programs

Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services’ Commission for Children with Special Health Care Needs The commission provides services through a variety of specialty clinics addressing the following medical areas:  Asthma (Severe), Burn, Cerebral Palsy, Cleft Lip and Palate, Craniofacial, Cystic Fibrosis, Ear, Eye, Hand, Heart, Hemophilia (Pediatric and Adult), Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis,  Neurology, Neurosurgery, Orthopedic, Reconstructive […]

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