Consolidate Vocational Rehabilitation Services
Eliminate the Department of Services for the Blind and roll their services into the DSHS Division of Vocational Rehabilitation. Washington is one of only 12 states who still have a separate vocational rehabilitation for blind citizens. What the 38 other states have found is that it is wasteful to duplicate the management and service positions and facilities and their maintenance in a separate agency serving only one ...more »
Eliminate the Department of Services for the Blind and roll their services into the DSHS Division of Vocational Rehabilitation.
Washington is one of only 12 states who still have a separate vocational rehabilitation for blind citizens. What the 38 other states have found is that it is wasteful to duplicate the management and service positions and facilities and their maintenance in a separate agency serving only one disability.
Serving blind citizens looking for work in the same agency that serves all the other citizens with disabilities looking for work makes fiscal sense because it would save the state all the salaries, building rentals, maintenance costs and other fees associated with having a separate agency that only serves one class of disabled individuals.
Serving blind citizens looking for work in the same agency that serves all the other citizens with disabilities looking for work makes sense in terms of current theory on disability inclusion in that treating blind citizens differently than other citizens with disabilities only furthers the stigma of disability in general and blindness specifically.
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