3.2 Counseling Relationship

DVR values an active and meaningful relationship with each individual to support and develop informed choice. The DVR counseling team has four broad tasks:

1. To provide vocational guidance and counseling.

2. To ensure the individual has opportunities for appropriate experiences when necessary to develop preferences.

3. To provide necessary support services to assist individuals in identifying and understanding preferences in light of their strengths, resources, concerns, priorities, abilities, capabilities, and interests.

4. To ensure that the individual has opportunities to choose among various options.

Informed choice activities shall be structured to assist the individual in making decisions that consider available community resources, employment opportunities, impact of work on benefits and work incentives, and applicable federal/state legal and policy requirements that may impact choices about employment.