[rehab] [Caution: Message contains Redirect URL content] Re: Being both a client and employee

Thu Jan 5 16:15:22 UTC 2017

Hi Justin,
I agree with many of the comments you have received thus far.  The wording
in the original Rehab Act, was "obtain, retain, and advance in employment"
if memory serves me correctly.  There is no real reason why a blind agency
can' serve one of its employees, although who serves as the rehab
counselor should be an issue of concern.  I would recommend a supervisor,
or anyone above the individual, do so.  If a general agency counselor
needs to serve the individual, it should still be paid for by the rehab
agency.
Dick

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Being both a client and employee

Hi everybody,

Thank you for your insights so far. If it may be useful, the client that
brought this to my attention is someone who is working for an agency but
has career goals a bit beyond what they are doing currently at the agency.
I guess I should call the person a "prospective client" because this
person has been denied services. The person has been directed to the
general agency because the Blind agency does not want to serve them
because they are an employee and have confidentiality concerns, an agency
which does not serve blind people, where the person has been denied, or
found ineligible. It is being argued that, because the person has a job,
the person does not have any impediments to employment.

Any more thoughts?

Thanks!

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On Jan 4, 2017, at 9:51 AM, Fatos M. Floyd via rehab
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But, sometimes, staff needs long term blindness training which agencies
may not be able to pay from their budget.
I was not talking about accommodations.
Thanks

Fatos Floyd, CRC,  Field Services Coordinator Oklahoma Department of
Rehabilitation Services Visual Services

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Being both a client and employee

My agency simply paid for what I needed out of their budget such as
reasonable accommodations, training Etc. I think that's how it should be.
Jan

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Subject: [rehab] Being both a client and employee

Hello fellow rehab enthusiasts,

I have heard recently of a state agency serving the blind which has a
practice of not allowing employees to become clients of the agency. I am
told that this is because there have been confidentiality issues in the
past. To me, this seems to violate the spirit of the rehab system, so I'm
wondering if anyone knows if this is allowed.

Thanks for any input anyone may have!

Aloha,
Justin

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National Federation of the Blind
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@Alumni.ECU.edu>
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