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An Overview Iowa Department for the Blind IDB Mission The mission of the Iowa Department for the Blind is to empower blind Iowans to be gainfully employed and live independently IDB uses a clientcentric approach to empower clients to achieve successful outcomes ID: 912781

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Slide1

Iowa Department for the Blind:

An Overview

Slide2

Iowa Department for the Blind (IDB)

Mission:

The mission of the Iowa

Department for the Blind is

to

empower blind Iowans to be gainfully employed and live independently.

IDB uses a client-centric approach to empower clients to achieve successful outcomes.

Slide3

IDB

Federally and state funded program

to assist Iowans who are blind or low vision improve skills to obtain or retain competitive employment.

Both

IDB

and the Iowa

Vocational Rehabilitation Services are

voluntary programs (not entitlement) with rights and responsibilities for

participation.

IDB

works with a variety of community partners, agencies,

businesses,

disability groups and other

stakeholders.

Slide4

IDB

The department’s main office is in Des Moines, with field staff statewide

IDB assists

eligible individuals who are blind/low vision lead active and fulfilling lives at home, at work, and in their

communities

Over 50% of individuals served by IDB have documented co-occurring disabilities

Services offered include:

Vocational Rehabilitation Services

Orientation Center

Business Enterprise Program

Library Services

Slide5

Vision loss of legal blindness, functional blindness or a degenerative eye disorder that will lead to legal blindness

Legal Blindness:

visual acuity of 20/200 or less in the better eye with correction

Visual field of 20 degrees or less

Functional Blindness: When an individual has to use so many alternative techniques to perform tasks that are ordinarily performed by sight that their pattern of daily living is substantially altered.

A substantial impediment to employment

Can benefit in terms of an employment outcome

Must also require vocational rehabilitation services in order to prepare for, secure, retain or regain employment

Eligibility for VR Services

Slide6

Common Vocational Rehabilitation Services

Guidance and Counseling

Assistive Technology

Assessment, Equipment, Training

Skills

Training

Academic Training

Job Placement Consultation with Employers Regarding Accommodations

Slide7

VR Counselor Territories

Slide8

VR Counselor Contact

Information

Central:

Ashley.West@blind.state.ia.us

/ 515-802-4651

Toni.Reimers@blind.state.ia.us

/ 515-777-5693

West:

Jessica.Badding@blind.state.ia.us

/ 515-661-8528

Northwest:

Gloria.Graves@blind.state.ia.us

/ 712-522-0442

Southwest:

Samuel.Negron@blind.state.ia.us

/ 515-344-7942

East Central:

Joe.Weigel@blind.state.ia.us

/ 515-971-7049

East

Lisa.Ortner@blind.state.ia.us

/ 515-681-4914

Northeast:

Jamie.Phipps@blind.state.ia.us

/ 515-249-9137

Southeast:

Rachel.Miller@blind.state.ia.us

/ 319-231-3059

Slide9

Orientation Center

Residential pre-vocational training program

VR clients, 17yrs old and older

L

earn alternative/nonvisual skills, build self-confidence, and develop a positive attitude about themselves and their blindness

Classes include:

Technology

BrailleHome and Personal Management Industrial Arts Cane TravelDiscussion Group: Business of Blindness

Slide10

The

Randolph Sheppard Act (1936) gives legally blind vendors priority in operating vending facilities in federal, state, or county facilities.

The licensed vendor may work in a variety of settings, including: vending machine routes, snack bars, or cafeterias.

The Business Enterprise Program provides opportunities for legally blind VR clients to manage their own businesses.

IDB provides initial and ongoing food service and management training, as well as beginning inventory and purchase of equipment.

The average income of BEP business owners is $41,000 per year.

Business Enterprise Program (BEP)

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Library Services

Provides reading materials in alternative formats to Iowans who are unable to access standard print.

Eligibility for Library Services

Blindness: visual acuity of 20/200 or less in the better eye with correcting lenses

Visual disability that prevents the reading of standard print materials- inability to read standard print materials with correction and regardless of optical measurement

A physical disability- inability to read or use standard print materials as a result of physical limitations such as paralysis, lack of arms or hands, extreme weakness, etc.

A reading disability resulting from organic dysfunction

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Library Services

Provide reading materials in alternative formats

Braille, large print, digital audio recordings, print/Braille, descriptive video, and electronic text

Instructional Materials Center

Textbooks and other educational material in alternative formats for students of any age

Vocational materials in accessible formats for jobseekers and employed Iowans upon request

The library works with agencies, organizations, and employers, to create accessible documents, materials, signage and more in braille and audio

Slide13

Resources

To make a VR referral to Iowa Department for the Blind:

https://iowadeptblind.wufoo.com/forms/zvrywj80kfnxfj/

or contact Ann Fremont, Intake Specialist: 515-281-1357 or

Ann.Fremont@blind.state.ia.us

For more information about the Orientation Center, contact Julie Aufdenkamp, Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor: 515-242-5768 or

Julie.Aufdenkamp@blind.state.ia.us

For more information about the Business Enterprise Program, contact Tim

Wigans

, Business Enterprise Program Counselor: 515-249-8742 or

Tim.Wigans@blind.state.ia.us

Library application form:

https://blind.iowa.gov/sites/default/files/file/Iowa%20Library%20Application%202017.pdf

or to

request an application by phone, contact the library at: 515-281-1323 or

library@blind.state.ia.us

Slide14

Ashley West, M.S., CRC Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor

Ashley.west@blind.state.ia.us

515.802.4651

IDB WEBSITE

https

://blind.iowa.gov/