(0) The Department, under its Director, will coordinate the accounting, budgeting, and fiscal matters pertaining to vocational rehabilitation services (See Section 4 for further information). Authorization of the expenditure of funds for vocational rehabilitation purposes will be granted only by vocational rehabilitation personnel.

2.4 LOCAL REHABILITATION AGENCIES

Currently there are no locally administered rehabilitation agencies. Whenever the administrative policy of statewide application of this Plan is waived in accordance with Section 6.3 and Section 6.4, this section will be developed and an amendment submitted.

2.5 STATE ADMINISTRATOR AND STAFF

(a) The Department Director has primary responsibility for the administration of the vocational rehabilitation program. In addition to the vocational rehabilitation program, he is responsible to the Governor for the overall direction of all other programs and services of the Department. The organizational structure of the Department is such that his administration of these other programs will not interfere with the effective administration of the State Plan for Vocational Rehabilitation; to the contrary, by his direction of multiple programs and services relating to disabled and disadvantaged persons, the vocational rehabilitation program is enhanced.

(b) The Chief of the Bureau of Rehabilitation Services devotes full time to the vocational rehabilitation program, as does all or substantially all of the staff employed by the Department for vocational rehabilitation purposes.

2.6 MEDICAL CONSULTATION

Medical consultation will only be secured from physicians licensed to practice medicine and surgery in the State of Arizona and who are otherwise qualified through training and experience to perform effectively in the rehabilitation program.

The Department employs a State Medical Services Coordinator for the vocational rehabilitation program (See Section 2.3), medical consultants for field offices and such other medical consultants, generalists or specialists as may be required and for the amount of time needed in State and field offices to give consultation and guidance in relation to all medical aspects of the Department's vocational rehabilitation program.

General medical consultation is available on a regular basis to all vocational rehabilitation counseling staff. Such consultation is scheduled on a full-time basis in the larger offices and on a part-time basis (at least weekly) in the smaller offices.

Vocational rehabilitation counselors, under the supervision of their district supervisors, determine with their district medical consultants, the physical restoration needs of individuals who are applying for or receiving vocational rehabilitation services.

2.7 STATE AGENCY FACILITY STAFF

The Vocational Rehabilitation Facility Section is responsible for carrying out the functions of the Department pertaining to workshops and rehabilitation facilities in such areas as planning, the setting of standards for such facilities utilized in providing services to determine rehabilitation potential and services to eligible handicapped individuals, the effective utilization of existing workshops and rehabilitation facilities in the rehabilitation process, the construction and establishment of workshops and facilities, the functions of the Department in the administration of workshop improvement grants and training allowances, technical assistance, and other activities involving workshops and rehabilitation facilities.

The Rehabilitation Facilities Specialist will perform intra-agency and interagency coordination pursuant to any other act concerned with the development, establishment, or construction of rehabilitation facilities to prevent duplication of the rehabilitation effort or possible impairment of the state vocational rehabilitation program. Staff will prepare and update annually the State Rehabilitation Facilities Plan.

This is not the official state plan but a supplement which directs the staff on how they operate-It clearly shows the VR Services Bureau does not supervise and direct the VR Counselors.

offices.

-Coordinates division activities between Central Services Bureau,
district offices and local offices.

:-Acts as department liaison and representative with local communities
and their elected officials.

-Implements a continuous staff training program to assure that the
entire spectrum of Department service is available at each field
office.

-Operates an Employment Service program which includes job informa-
ifen, testing, counseling, jeb referral and manpower training re-
ferrals for jub seekers; and order taking, applicant selection and
recruitment, and technical assistance for employers.
-Operates an. Iheaployment Insurance Benefit and Training Allowance
program; determines eligibility of unemployed workers and amount
of entitlement.

-Operates the following programs of income maintenance for eligible
field office clients; old age Assistance; Aid to the Blind; Aid
for Dependent Children; Aid to the Permanently and Totally Disabled;
Ceneral Assistance; Tuberculosis Control; Emergency Relief and
Food Stamps.

-Operates a Work Incentive Program in Maricopa and Pima Counties
for AC clients, providing employment, social and rehabilitation
services as required.

Operates &cational Rehabilitation program for eligible clients;
determines eligibility and provides counseling services; voca-
tional evaluation; income maintenance and educational expenses
Mile in vocational trafains and splement assistance.
-Provides a program. of social services which includes the following:
foster care; comprehensive medical, dental and psychiatric care for
foster children; family services such as family planning, use of
homemakers or hone vanagement aides; day care; adoption; protective
services for children in danger of neglect, abuse or dependency; and
licensing and certification of child care institutions, child placing
agencies and agency foster homes at the local level.

-Contacts and assists veterans or their dependents who are eligible in the preparation of claims for VA benefits.

-Provides technical assistance to eaci. local Council of Governments in the development of its area manpower plan.

CENTRAL SERVICES HUREA

Minston: To assist Field Services Division field offices in the completion
of direct services to their clients and to provide Department of Leoneale
Security clients with those services more efficiently rendered from a loca-
tion other than the field offices.

Functions:

-Operates a statewide Employment Service program for ex-offenders including
the provision of counseling, sanpower inferuation, manpower training, Job
development, Job placement and follow-up for eligible clients.
-Operates a statewide and futerstate Job Bank service dich includes the
following centralized functions: order taking; automated applicant file
maintenance; referral of applicants to jobs; referral control; wrification
of referral results with cupleyers by telephone; and daily distribution of
Job listings and related reports to field offices.

-Reviews aseistance payment cases for medical disability and employabilit
ad proesses ifkely estdates for waticaliti
-Receives and accounts for cash and food stamps; mails food stamps and
authorization to purchase forma to clients.

-Alministers the Supplemental Medical Insurance Benefit Buy-in program of
assistance to the aged.

-Reviews claims for VA benefits prepared by Teterans Service field represent
atives on behalf of veterans or their dependents; appears before VA claims
adjudicators and represents veterans in hearing processes.

-Acts as guardian and administère the estate of insane or incompetent veterans
and the minor children of veterans.

-Administers a central (nemployment Insurance benefits operation for processing
interstate claims; overpayments; claims submitted during labor disputes; san-
power training allowances; and the preparation of all benefit claims for data
processing.

Refer to narrative description on page 1.74.

ARIZONA DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMIC SECURITY PROGRAM SERVICES DIVISION INCOME MAINTENANCE, REHABILITATION SERVICES, AND EMPLOYMENT & TRAINING SERVICES FUNCTIONAL CHARTS FOR THE BUREAUS OF:

Income Maintenance Bureau

Mission: To develop programs and policies
for providing financial aid to eligible persons
to meet their immediate needs for maintain-
ing purchasing power; to provide for the
systematic accumulation of funds to be set
aside as reserves from which unemployment
insurance benefits may be paid; and to pro-
vide technical assistance to the Field Services
Division in the administration of Unemploy
ment Insurance benefits payments, Food
Stamp distribution, and federal and state
assistance grant payment programs.
Functions:

Administer the program for collection of
Unemployment Insurance contributions
from employers.

-Develop and recommend policies and
procedures for determination of eligibility
of individuals for public assistance pay
ments and unemployment insurance
benefits.

-Monitor assistance payments programs
for effectiveness and make recommenda
tions for improvements in programs.
-Coordinate statewide operations of Food
Stamp program.

-Maintain liaison with federal and state
agencies, and coordinate effort with other
agencies in area of mutual responsibility.
-Advise and assist the Field Services
Division administer payment and grants
to Aid to Blind, Old Age Assistance, Aid
to Dependent Children. Aid to Permanently
and Totally Disabled. General Assistance,
Emergency Relief and Tuberculosis
Control Program.

Employment and Training Bureau
Mission: Promote the development of state-
wide programs of Placement, Applicant
Services, and Manpower Training Programs
designed to improve the economic welfare
of the unemployed and under employed.
Provide technical assistance to employers
to assist them in resolving their manpower
problems. Promote the development of
apprenticeship training through voluntary
cooperation of management and labor.
Provide increased opportunities for
training and employment of veterans.
Functions:

-Develop program of maximum exposure
of job and training opportunities to assist
employers in recruiting their labor force
and applicants in their job search.
-Develop a program of counseling and
supportive services to assist applicants.
-Develop a program of technical services
to assist employers in resolving manpower
problems.

-Provide leadership to the development and
improvement of manpower training programs.
-Assist industry in the development, expansion,
and improvement of apprenticeship and
training programs.

-Establish and approve minimum standards for
apprenticeship training programs, veterans' on-
the-job training, and courses of instruction
offered by educational and training institutions.
Certify apprentices who have successfully com-
pleted training.

-Provide leadership for the development, im-
provement, and validation of DOL occupational
and aptitude tests.

-Develop and implement a statewide system
of monitoring, evaluation, and program main-
tenance to insure the integrity of employment
and manpewer services.

-Provide liaison with federal, state, county and
city officials: educational institutions and
other groups for purposes of program planning.

-Plans, coordinates and interprets rehabilitation policy.

-Develops programs and procedures based upon approved policy.

-Supports the implementation of programs
and procedures within the Field Services
Division.

-Upholds the integrity and quality of indi-
vidual rehabilitation programs and services.
-Maintains necessary coordination with other
Bureaus within the Division and the Depart-
ment to accomplish rehabilitation objectives.
-Implements approved recommendations from
the Rehabilitation Advisory Committee, the
Advisory Committee for the Blind, and such
other advisory committees as may be deemed
necessary.

-Develops or obtains necessary data to approve
contractual rehabilitation programs or to
prepare required state and federal reports.
-Maintains liaison with local, state, regional,
national bodies, and public and private organ-
izations to insure the provision of meaningful
and efficient rehabilitation service by the
Department.

Provide training for all Field Services Division,
Bureau and other personnel engaged in rehabi-
litation endeavors. Provides related research
and reference services to all such personnel.

Social Services Bureau

Mission: To promote and provide and to
encourage community service organizations
to provide such social services as may be
necessary to assist elderly persons, dependent
children, the handicapped and others with
social problems to achieve a stable living
arrangement within their community.
Functions:

-Provide technical expertise involving planning
development and interpretation of program
and policies for social service programs in-
volving foster care, adoption, protective ser-
vices and day care for children; family services.
family planning and vocational rehabilitation
for adults; and licensing certification of agencies
providing child care, child placing or agency
foster homes.
-Provide funding for local planning agencies to
develop and implement programs of home
health care, transportation, day care, and infor-
mation and recreation for the aged.
-Assist community organizations to make appli-
cation for grants from federal funds allotment
received by the Department.

-Reviews and recommends approval by Director
of project budgets submitted by local community
agencies.
-Plan, develop and monitor statewide projects for
providing food and nutrition programs for the
aged.

-Administer the Area Model Program to demon-
strate alternatives to institutional care for older
people in Pima County.