{"id":35879,"date":"2017-06-23T18:06:24","date_gmt":"2017-06-23T23:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deafnetwork.com\/wordpress\/?p=35879"},"modified":"2017-06-23T18:17:49","modified_gmt":"2017-06-23T23:17:49","slug":"town-hall-meetings-for-the-twc-vr-services-csna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deafnetwork.com\/wordpress\/blog\/2017\/06\/23\/town-hall-meetings-for-the-twc-vr-services-csna\/","title":{"rendered":"Town Hall Meetings for the TWC VR Services CSNA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Town Hall Meetings for the TWC Vocational Rehabilitation Services Comprehensive Statewide Needs Assessment (CSNA)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Rehabilitation Council of Texas and the Texas Workforce Commission\u2019s (TWC) Vocational Rehabilitation (VR) divisions will hold five town hall meetings in July 2017 to inform the Comprehensive Statewide Needs Assessment (CSNA). The CSNA is a triennial assessment that describes the vocational rehabilitation needs of Texans with disabilities and the VR services that assist them to gain employment.<\/p>\n<p>The CSNA has three primary aims:<\/p>\n<p>1. To identify unserved or underserved people with a disability<br \/>\n2. To describe the current delivery of VR services across Texas<br \/>\n3. To suggest how to improve VR services<\/p>\n<p>Each town hall will have two sessions for convenience according to the local time zone.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Session 1\u20144:00 <\/strong>to<strong> 5:30 PM<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Session 2\u20146:00 <\/strong>to<strong> 7:30 PM<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The schedule and locations of the town halls are listed below.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tuesday, July 11, 2017 McAllen<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>United Way of South Texas<br \/>\n113 W Pecan Street<br \/>\nMcAllen, TX 78501<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wednesday, July 12, 2017 San Antonio<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Workforce Solutions Alamo<br \/>\n6723 S. Flores<br \/>\nSan Antonio, TX 78220<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thursday, July 13, 2017 Houston<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Southwest College Houston Community College, Room C108AB<br \/>\n5601 West Loop S<br \/>\nHouston, TX 77081<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tuesday, July 18, 2017 El Paso<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Texas Tech University<br \/>\nAcademic Ed Ctr 201A Auditorium<br \/>\n4801 Alberta Ave<br \/>\nEl Paso, TX 79905<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wednesday, July 19, 2017 Dallas<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>El Centro College, Room B269<br \/>\nPerformance Hall<br \/>\n801 Main Street<br \/>\nDallas, TX 75202<\/p>\n<p>The questions that will be asked at the town hall meetings are posted on the Vocational Rehabilitation Services Web page. Comments may also be submitted by Thursday, July 20, 2017, to vr.CSNA@twc.state.tx.us, or mailed to the TWC Division of Operational Insight, Attn: Geoffrey Miller, 1117 Trinity Street, Room 326T, Austin, Texas 78701.<\/p>\n<p>TWC will have Communication Access Real-time Captioning (CART) services and American Sign Language (ASL) interpreters at each meeting. People who have additional communication or other accommodation needs who are planning to attend the town hall meetings should contact the RCT Coordinator at 512-936-3445 or by email at lisa.godwin@twc.state.tx.us. Requests for accommodations should be made five business days prior to the public meeting date.<\/p>\n<p>Acrobat Reader DC may not work properly with JAWS 16 and older. Individuals using Acrobat Reader 10 may go to the following link to download Acrobat Reader 11:<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.adobe.com\/support\/downloads\/detail.jsp?ftpID=5507.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Town Hall Meetings for the TWC Vocational Rehabilitation Services Comprehensive Statewide Needs Assessment (CSNA) The Rehabilitation Council of Texas and the Texas Workforce Commission\u2019s (TWC) Vocational Rehabilitation (VR) divisions will hold five town hall meetings in July 2017 to inform&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/deafnetwork.com\/wordpress\/blog\/2017\/06\/23\/town-hall-meetings-for-the-twc-vr-services-csna\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[9898,1636,25130,2894,10256],"class_list":["post-35879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deaf-news","tag-texas-workforce-commission","tag-town-hall","tag-twc","tag-vocational-rehabilitation","tag-vr"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p752R-9kH","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":34767,"url":"https:\/\/deafnetwork.com\/wordpress\/blog\/2016\/12\/15\/twc-meetings-for-the-merger-of-all-vr-services-into-one-program\/","url_meta":{"origin":35879,"position":0},"title":"TWC: Meetings for the Merger of All VR Services into One Program","author":"Grant Laird Jr","date":"December 15, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Stakeholder Meetings for the Merger of All Vocational Rehabilitation Services into One Program The Governor's Committee on People with Disabilities is sharing information on public hearings regarding the merger of programs within the vocational rehabilitation system. 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