About Vocational Rehabilitation

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What is Vocational Rehabilitation?

Vocational Rehabilitation (VR) is a program that helps people that have a disability prepare for, gain, keep or advance in a job. We work with community partners and businesses to develop job opportunities.

Who is Eligible?

Any person that has a disability (physical or mental impairment) that makes it difficult to find or keep a job, needs our services to overcome barriers and wants to work.

Cost of our Services

Most of our services are provided to eligible individuals or businesses at no cost. However, there may be some services that are based on a sliding fee scale.

Should You Contact VR?

If you answer yes to the questions below contact VR today to see how we can help you.

  • Do you have a physical or mental disability that limits finding or keeping a job? Examples: ADHD, dyslexia, depression, chronic pain, traumatic brain injury, hard of hearing, etc.
  • Do you want to find, keep, or advance in a job?
  • Will you benefit from our services?

Guiding Principles

  1. Serving our clients is the primary focus of everything we do.
  2. Collaborative partnerships with employers are essential to our success.
  3. All people have value regardless of age, race, creed, color, gender, or disability.
  4. Good communication is essential to delivering quality rehabilitation services.
  5. Quality outcomes are a result of the commitment of clients and qualified staff working together towards mutually agreed upon goals.
  6. Change is inevitable and provides opportunities for innovation and creativity.
  7. Effective partnerships are critical in achieving results for clients.
  8. Informed choice is central to sound decision-making and allows decisions to be based on all relevant information, options, and consequences.
  9. When all things are equal, legal, and based on good rehabilitation counseling, decisions will be made in favor of the client.

Rights and Protections

Because this program is supported in whole or in part by financial assistance from the U.S. Department of Education, per Appendix C to 34 CFR Part 75 we are required to provide you with the following information:

  1. We may not discriminate against you on the basis of religion, a religious belief, a refusal to hold a religious belief, or a refusal to attend or participate in a religious practice.
  2. We may not require you to attend or participate in any explicitly religious activities (including activities that involve overt religious content such as worship, religious instruction, or proselytization) that may be offered by our organization, and any participation by you in such activities must be purely voluntary.
  3. We must separate in time or location any privately funded explicitly religious activities (including activities that involve overt religious content such as worship, religious instruction, or proselytization) from activities supported with direct Federal financial assistance.
  4. You may report violations of these protections, including any denials of services or benefits by an organization, by contacting or filing a written complaint with the U.S. Department of Education at BeneficiaryNoticeComplaints@ed.gov.

This written notice must be given to you before you enroll in the program or receive services from the program, unless the nature of the service provided or exigent circumstances make it impracticable to provide such notice before we provide the actual service. In such an instance, this notice must be given to you at the earliest available opportunity.

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Contact Us

1000 E. Divide Ave.
Bismarck, ND 58501
Phone: (701) 328-8950
Toll Free: (800) 755-2745
711 (TTY)
Fax: (701) 328-1884
Email: dhsvr@nd.gov