22VAC45-20-80: Training of blind vendors

A. The department, with the active participation of the vending facility vendors council, shall ensure that effective programs of vocational and other training services, including personal and vocational adjustment, books, tools, and other training materials, shall be provided to eligible blind individuals as vocational rehabilitation services under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended by the Rehabilitation Act Amendments of 1974.

B. These programs shall include classroom as well as on-the-job training in all aspects of vending facility operation for blind persons with the capacity to operate a vending facility, and upward mobility training (including further education and additional training or retraining for improved work opportunities) for all blind licensees. The department shall ensure that post-employment services shall be provided to blind vendors in vocational rehabilitation services as necessary to assure that the optimum vocational potential of such vendors is achieved and suitable employment is maintained within the vending facility program.