2.2 Notification of Confidentiality

All applicants and recipients of services, including their authorized representatives when applicable, shall be informed in the individual’s preferred language or through appropriate modes of communication of DVR’s need to collect personal information, the confidentiality of personal information, and the conditions for accessing and releasing this information.

All information about confidentiality is contained in the agency approved notification of rights form, which shall be provided and explained to all applicants for and recipients of vocational rehabilitation services and, when appropriate, their authorized representatives. For applicants and eligible individuals, documentation of the notification of confidentiality and the provision of this information, in an appropriate mode of communication, shall be maintained in the individual’s service record.