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<regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".08-1" citation="COMAR 10.09.26.08-1" title_num="10" subtitle_num="09" chapter_num="26" heading="Covered Services for Supported Employment.">
  <paragraph num="A.">
    <text>Supported employment services are available to waiver participants:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>Who previously resided in a State residential center or nursing facility;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>For whom competitive employment at or above the minimum wage is unlikely; and</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(3)">
      <text>Who, because of their disability, need ongoing post-employment support to perform in a work setting.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="B.">
    <text>Supported employment services are designed to assist a waiver participant with accessing and maintaining paid employment. The services shall be provided as required and recommended in the waiver participant's ISP, as an alternative model of day habilitation.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="C.">
    <text>Supported employment services include:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>Individualized assessment and development of employment-related goals and objectives;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>Individualized and group counseling;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(3)">
      <text>Individualized job development, placement, and work adjustment services that produce an appropriate job match between the waiver participant and the waiver participant's employer;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(4)">
      <text>On-the-job training in work and work-related skills required to perform the job;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(5)">
      <text>Ongoing evaluation, supervision, and monitoring of the waiver participant's performance on the job which are required because of the waiver participant's disabilities, but which do not include supervisory activities rendered as a normal part of the business setting;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(6)">
      <text>Ongoing support services necessary to assure job retention;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(7)">
      <text>Training in related skills essential to obtaining and retaining employment, such as the effective use of community resources and break or lunch areas, and transportation and mobility training;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(8)">
      <text>Transportation between the waiver participant's place of residence and the workplace, when other forms of transportation are unavailable or inaccessible;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(9)">
      <text>Adaptive equipment necessary to obtain and retain employment; and</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(10)">
      <text>Community integration activities.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
</regulation>