Vocational Futures Planning
Employment services are now available for participants
of long- term care services under the Medicaid home- and community-based
waivers. The programs included are the Community
Options Program Waiver (COP-W) and the Community Integration Program
II (CIP II).
In 2002, Wisconsin received approval from the Centers for
Medicare and Medicaid Services to expand habilitation services to
include employment services for elders and people with physical
disabilities. Specifically, employment services -- defined as
"vocational futures planning" (VFP) -- were added as an
allowable service for COP-W and CIP II participants.
Vocational futures planning is a consumer directed, team
based comprehensive service package that helps waiver participants
obtain, maintain or advance in employment.
What does this mean to consumers of COP-W and CIP II?
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Access to employment services, such as identifying
barriers to employment and ways to reduce or eliminate the barriers,
interviewing and resume writing skills training, and assessing assistive
technology needs for the job.
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Access to benefits
counseling and information on a comprehensive array of
government benefits and programs, such as the Social Security work
incentive program (Plan for Achieving Self Support, or PASS).
To participate, COP-W and CIP II participants should
contact their long-term care manager and request information about
vocational futures planning.
For more information, contact Dan Johnson by phone at
608/267-9582 (voice) or 608/266-9880 (TTY); or by e-mail at johnsdc@dhfs.state.wi.us.
Detailed information is available in the DSL
Numbered Memo about the program.
Last Revised: January 30, 2006
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