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Mandatory Area 1 | Content | Mandatory Area 2
This section describes Kansas Rehabilitation Services, Services for the Blind, Title VII, Chapter 2 grant, Kansas Seniors Achieving Independent Living (Kan-SAIL) Project.
Steering committee: Access to the DSB Advisory Committee to assist in identification of barriers that prevent older individuals who are severely visually impaired.
1.1
Consultation will be done quarterly. Evaluation Criteria: Input
from the Committee reflected
in grant management.
Objective Leader: Project Coordinator
1.2
Yearly consultation with the KRS Council and Statewide Independent
Living Council. Evaluation
Criteria: Input from the two Councils reflected in grant management.
Objective Leader: Project Director
Recruitment: Employ qualified professional staff in accordance with the State Affirmative Action Plan and Civil Service Regulations.
2.1
Emphasize recruiting Seniors, persons of ethnicity and persons with
disabilities by contacting minority organizations, minority and disabled student
placement offices at universities and colleges, Senior organizations and
consumer groups for the blind.
Evaluation Criteria: Staff reflect diversity.
Objective Leader: Project Director
2.2
Provide staff with reasonable accommodations including providing all
written material in Media of Choice. Evaluation
Criteria: No EEO complaints with a finding of fault.
Objective Leader: Project Director
Training and Orientation: Provide ongoing in-service training to Kan-SAIL ΙI staff. Orient KRS and SRS staff to Kan-SAIL ΙI.
3.1 Provide media of choice and E-mail to staff monthly. Present programs at DSB statewide meetings.Evaluation Criteria: Feedback from staff indicates an understanding and scope of the grant and reflects collaboration.
3.2 Present information on
Kan-SAIL II at KRS
District Manager meetings.
Evaluation Criteria: Two documents presentations a year.
Objective
Leader: Project Coordinator
3.3 Orient
appropriate staff in SRS management areas beginning in the Third Quarter of
Grant Year One. Priority will be
given to areas with the largest population of Hispanics, Blacks, American
Indians, Asians or Pacific Islanders.
Evaluation Criteria: Feedback and presentation Evaluations indicate
understanding of the scope of the grant.
Objective Leader: Project Director and Project Coordinator
Community-Based Outreach Services: Provide 45 community-based services through Outreaches using a mobile training team model. Independent living skills training will include, but not be restricted to, orientation and mobility counseling and self-advocacy. If the client speaks English as a second language or is hearing-impaired, qualified interpreters will be provided.
4.1
Focus on taking Outreaches to communities with high populations of the
under served target populations of Hispanics, Blacks, American Indians, Asians
or Pacific Islanders.
Evaluation Criteria: Ten percent served per year from target
populations.
Objective Leader: Project Coordinator
4.2
Provide individualized in-home independent living teaching as a viable
option to participation in the Outreaches or the RCB Senior Programs by using
strategies for providing state-of-the-art teaching of independent living skills.
Evaluation Criteria: Client Exit Evaluations are positive.
Objective Leader: Senior Specialist II
4.3
Provide three Senior Week Programs a year at the RCB.
Evaluation
Criteria: 150 clients and 45 significant others are served during the grant.
Objective
Leader: Project Coordinator
Low Vision Services: Provide low vision assessments at the RCB, in client homes, at Senior Centers, and during Outreaches.
5.1
Provide low vision assessments to identify the need for adaptive aids
or equipment. Provide
low vision aids and training. Seek
alternative funding through VR or other sources such as Lions Clubs. Provide follow-up to assure low vision aids are
being used properly and frequently with re-training provided, if
necessary.
Evaluation Criteria: Evaluations reflect satisfaction with service. Tracking
system documents frequency of follow-up.
Objective Leader: Senior Specialist I
5.2 Refer
clients to ophthalmologists or optometrists for prescriptive aids or for low
vision examinations. Providing
training and follow-up for low vision aids.
Evaluation Criteria: Surveys of ophthalmologists and optometrists about
services and cooperation of Kan-SAIL II
are positive.
Objective Leader: Senior Specialist I
Employment: Refer clients who are interested in employment to the DSB vocational rehabilitation program.
6.1
Consult with the VR District Manager and refer clients to the local
DSB Rehabilitation Counselor within ten working days.
Evaluation Criteria: Clients records and Client Exit Evaluations reflect
satisfaction.
Objective Leader: Senior Specialist II
Services for Significant Others: Establish special programs during Outreaches to assist significant others to cope and understand the emotional and practical day-to-day changes in their lives and their family members lives beginning in the Third Quarter of the First Year Grant.
7.1
Provide Significant Others Programs during Outreaches, RCB Senior Week
Programs, and on an individual basis.
Evaluation Criteria: Data on programs and contacts documented.
Objective Leader: Project Coordinator
Special Targeted Services to American Indians: Develop referrals from this under served population. Promote a new knowledge base of the rehabilitation process for American Indians and encourage dialogue and collaboration with Indian Health Services, Bureau of Indian Affairs, and enrolled and non-enrolled American Indians with individual tribes and Tribal Councils.
8.1
One documented contact with the Indian Health Services, the Bureau of
Indian Affairs, and representatives of the four American Indian tribes to
develop referrals each quarter.
Evaluation Criteria: Documentation of one contact with Indian Health
Services and one contact with each of the four Tribal Councils each quarter.
Objective Leader: Minority Coordinator
8.2
Collaborate with representatives of American Indian Tribal Councils,
Indian Health Services and Administration on Aging responsible for providing
services to Senior American Indians in locating eligible individuals.
Evaluation Criteria: Three documented contacts to each organization a quarter.
Objective Leader: Minority Coordinator and Senior Specialist I
8.3
Develop a fee-for-service arrangement with an American Indian Council,
health, social service or governmental body to assist identification of persons
who may be eligible by the Sixth Month of the First Grant Year.
Evaluation Criteria: 10% of the number served are American Indians as
documented in annual reports of the grant.
Client Rights and Advocacy: Provide all referrals with information about the KRS Client Assistant Program and their toll-free number at time of first contact. Provide advocacy resource information.
9.1
Refer clients to Legal Aid, as appropriate, if CAP cannot resolve an
issue.
Evaluation
Criteria: Client records reflect CAP information was presented.
No CAP
complaints with a finding of fault.
Objective
Leader: Senior Specialist II
9.2 Coordinate with the Kansas Advocacy
and Protective Services Program.
Evaluation
Criteria: Client Exit Evaluations reflect satisfaction with services.
Objective
Leader: Senior Specialist I
9.3 Coordinate
with SRS Legal Services to refer clients needing a guardian ad litem.
Evaluation Criteria: All referrals will be made in ten working days of
identification of need as documented in client records.
Objective Leader: Senior Specialist II
9.4 Immediately report possible
elder abuse or neglect to the local SRS offices.
Evaluation Criteria: All complaints or concerns referred in two working
days as
documented in client records.
Objective
Leader: Senior Specialist II
Peer sponsorships and visual support groups: Facilitate interactive opportunities with Peer Sponsors and role models to assist clients in adjustment to the changes in lives due to onset of blindness through Peer Sponsorship. Support the establishment of community-based Visual Support Groups.
10.1 Staff
will recruit ten Peer Sponsors and match with clients who request peer
sponsorships.
Evaluation Criteria: Documented ten Peer Sponsorships for Year Three, Four
and Five.
Objective Leader: Senior Specialist II
10.2 Encourage
Peer Sponsors to attend and provide leadership for Visual Support Groups, and
assist in establishing new Visual Support Groups.
Evaluation Criteria: Documented attendance at Visual Support Groups by
staff, Peer Sponsors and sponsored individuals.
Objective Leader: Senior Specialist II
10.3 Develop
Visual Support Groups to assist, encourage socialization, to help facilitate the
adjustment to visual loss through peer supports, and for educational purposes.
Evaluation Criteria: One new Visual Support Group per year beginning the Sixth
Month of Grant Year One.
Objective Leader: Senior Specialist II
Program access and resource development: Promote stronger public and private partnerships to improve program access for older individuals who are severely visually impaired.
11.1 Provide
training and technical assistance, as requested, to the staff of the twelve
Independent Living Centers. Contact will be made quarterly.
Evaluation Criteria: Technical Assistance Satisfaction Surveys and Training
Evaluations are positive. Grant records document contacts.
Objective Leader: Senior Specialist II
11.2 Encourage
the integration of the target population into community-based Senior Programs in
existing local organizations or through information sharing, provision of
technical assistance, and consultation.
Evaluation Criteria: Two community programs a year are made more accessible,
integrated or provided with technical assistance as documented in grant records.
Objective Leader: Senior Specialist II
11.3 Work
in concert with the Kansas Department on Aging and Area Agencies on Aging to
increase accessibility to Senior Meal Sites and Senior Recreation Programs.
Evaluation Criteria: Two new programs are made more accessible each year as
documented in grant records.
Objective Leader: Senior Specialist II
11.4 Work
cooperatively with the Audio-Reader Program to present service announcements.
Evaluation Criteria: Two public service announcements each year.
Objective Leader: Project Coordinator
Serving Tracking: Assure close monitoring of clients services and grant objectives for accountability and for quality and timeliness of service delivery.
12.1 Develop
an individualized written Senior Life Plan with each client using
monitoring and reviewing schedules. Each
new plan will be reviewed and monitored by the Coordinator.
Evaluation Criteria: RSA Grant Manager satisfied with all grant reporting.
All Senior Life Plans are reviewed within one month.
The case record will reflect this review.
Objective Leader: Project Coordinator
12.2 Refine the
computerized record keeping procedures and update current forms to assure
uniformity of documentation of services and accurate fiscal and program
tracking.
Evaluation Criteria: Each case file contains uniform documentation.
Objective Leader: Senior Specialist II
12.3
Develop a tracking system documenting referrals, resource
calls, public relations presentations, and provision of technical assistance.
All community development efforts will be documented in the Community
Development Plan.
Evaluation Criteria: Procedures and forms developed and successfully used by
the end of the first quarter. All
Objectives will be reviewed and any necessary corrective action taken quarterly.
Contract Evaluator will monitor and recommend remedial actions to the Project
Director.
Objective Leader: Senior Specialist II
Issues in Blindness Conference: Hold an Issues on Blindness Conference in Grant Year One, Three and Five. The goal of the conference will be to facilitate common understanding and interaction among professionals regarding aging and vision, and to encourage collaboration to develop better service delivery systems.
13.1 Work
cooperatively with RCEP, the sponsor of the conference, and encourage
collaborative sponsorship from the Kansas Department of Aging.
Evaluation Criteria: Conference support and funding diverse. Positive
conference evaluation forms.
Objective Leader: Project Director
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Effective Date: October 1, 2004
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