Comprehensive System of Personnel Development (CSPD)Training Project
Module Three: Chapter 688 - Guidelines for Referral
| Transitional Agency | Student Profile | Adult Service Needs |
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DSS
(Area Office) |
Student, regardless of disability, is currently in the care or custody of the Department of Social Services. |
Coordination of transition process
Adult services will be provided by another human service agency. |
DMR
(Area office) |
- Mental retardation (MR)
- Autism with MR
- MR with blindness
- MR with deafness
- MR with emotional disturbance
- Student currently residing in a pediatric nursing home
|
- Residential services
- Day programs
- Vocational services
- Family support services
- Case management.
|
MCB
(Regional Office) |
- Legal blindness
- Total blindness
- Deaf/Blind
- Deaf/Blind/MR
- Blind with emotional disturbance
|
- Independent living;
- Independent travel instruction;
- Job placement/vocational training;
- Social services
|
DMH
(Area Office) |
- Severe or long-term mental or emotional illness
|
- Residential
- Day treatment/vocational
- Outpatient counseling
- Case management*
|
MRC
(Area Office) |
A disability which constitutes a substantial handicap to employment.
- Deaf/severely hard of hearing
- Head-injured
- Severely physically disabled
- MR (needing time-limited vocational training)
- Severely learning disabled
|
- Counseling and guidance
- Evaluation and assessment
- Physical and mental restoration services
- Prosthetic devices
- Skill training and job placement
- Sheltered/supported employment **
|
MCDHH
(Central Office) |
- Deaf
- Severely hard of hearing
- Deaf with emotional/behavioral disabilities
- Severely learning disabled or educationally disadvantaged (non MR) and deaf/hard of hearing
|
- Independent living supports (peer support group, assisted shared living, alternating social opportunity, support to employment)
- Case management
- Specialized employment and/or residential related services which are not likely to exist or will require considerable assistance for development
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*Students receiving residential, day, or vocational DMH children's services must meet eligibility requirements for DMH adult case management.
**Mentally retarded or mentally ill students in need of residential services should not be referred to MRC for Transitional Planning. Those students with a severe physical disability, in need of residential services, should be referred to MRC. (Eligibility for the Independent Living Program will be determined.)
In the event it cannot be clearly determined which agency is appropriate, send the 688 referral and complete referral package to:
Bureau of Transitional Planning (BTP)
Executive Office of Human Services
One Ashburton Place, Room 1109
Boston, Massachusetts 02108
last updated: May 1, 2000
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