Educators
Improving outcomes for students with disabilities
VR Nevada offers collaborative services to educators to support students with disabilities moving from school to work and independent life. Collaborations between our agency, educational partners, students and families helps boost positive post-school outcomes, including graduating high school, attending postsecondary training or education, gaining paid employment, and living independently.
We encourage counselors and teachers to include us in Individualized educational plan (IEP) meetings so that the services we offer may be integrated into students’ and parents’ post-school goals. To do so, contact our Statewide Pre-Employment Coordinator, at pre-ets@detr.nv.govopens a new window.
Our staff is available to give vocational rehabilitation-related presentations to middle and high-school classes.
VR Nevada works with educators and students at public, charter and private schools throughout Nevada.
Based on the student’s interests and preferences, our staff will create a Pre-Employment plan that includes the activities and services to help students develop the skills they need to succeed in employment and the community. Our vocational rehabilitation counselors are certified and trained to assist students in exploring different careers and jobs that best match their strengths, abilities, interests and the job market. We make regular visits to school campuses to conduct orientations for newly referred students, and to meet with those students who currently receive Pre-Employment services.
Our Pre-Employment services for students with disabilities include the following:
- Collaboration with school district staff to assist in Pre-Employment planning.
- Assessments to determine job-related skills and abilities.
- Assistance with college or trade school orientation.
- Assistive technology.
- Career counseling and guidance, and job placement services.
Work-based learning opportunities for students to explore employment options.
Standarized Pre-Employment Curriculum
The Bureau of Vocational Rehabilitation employs a curriculum of lessons and activities to meet the needs of students with disabilities. A specific curriculum is designed for each student based on the needs and interests of each.
The curriculum fulfills the requirements of the federal Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Actopens a new window for students with disabilities who are eligible or potentially eligible for vocational rehabilitation services. The five required topical areas of the curriculum are:
- Job and career exploration
- Work-based learning
- Post-secondary training
- Workplace readiness
- Self-advocacy
Find your counselor
Select your school from the drop down to find your counselor and technician.
If you are seeking the counselor for a State Public Charter School not listed, please contact Mat Dorangricchia for the North & Rural and Trina Bourke for the South
- All
- AACT
- Acceleration HS
- ACE
- Acellus Academy
- Adult Education
- Advantages School International
- Albert M.Lowry HS
- Alpine Academy
- ALT School
- Arbor View HS
- Aspire
- Basic HS
- Battle Born Youth Challenge Academy
- Beacon Academy
- Beatty
- Bishop Manoque HS
- Blind & Visually Impaired
- Boulder City HS
- Burk Horizon Southwest Sunset Academy
- C.O. Bastian
- Carson HS
- Central Technical Academy
- Charter Schools North
- Churchill County HS
- College of So NV HS East (CSN)
- College of So NV HS South (CSN)
- College of So NV HS West (CSN)
- Connections Academy
- Coral Academy
- Counselors North
- Counselors South
- Cowan Academic Center
- Damonte Ranch HS
- Dayton HS
- Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students
- Delta Academy
- Desert Oasis HS
- Desert Pines
- Desert Rose
- Doral Red Rock Academy
- Douglas HS
- Douglas Nevada Online (DNO)
- Durango HS
- East Career Technical Academy
- Eldorado
- Elko HS
- Encompass Academy
- Eureka County HS
- Explore Academy
- Fernley HS
- Gabbs HS
- Galena HS
- George Whittell HS
- Gerlach HS
- Global Community HS
- Helen J. Stewart School
- Hug HS
- Incline HS
- Indian Springs HS
- Innovations HS
- Inspire Academy
- John F. Miller School
- King's Academy
- Las Vegas Academy of the Arts
- Laughlin HS
- Lincoln County HS
- Lund HS
- Marvin Picollo School
- Mater Academy
- Mater Academy North
- McQueen HS
- Miley Achievement Center
- Mineral County HS
- Mission HS
- Moapa Valley HS
- Nevada Learning Academy
- Nevada State HS
- Nevada State HS North
- Nevada Youth Training Center High School
- New Horizons Academy
- Newton Learning Center
- Next Step
- Northstar Online
- Oasis Charter School
- P2I-UNR
- Pahranagat Valley HS
- Palo Verde
- Pearson Online
- Pershing County HS
- Peterson Behavioral
- Pioneer HS
- Pre Employment Services
- Project Focus
- Project Search
- Pyramid Lake HS
- Rainshadow Charter School
- Redfield Academy
- Reed HS
- Reno HS
- RISE Academy
- Round Mountain HS
- Sage Ridge HS
- Sandy Valley HS
- Shadow Ridge HS
- Sierra Lutheran HS
- Sierra Nevada Academy
- Sierra Vista HS
- Silver Stage HS
- Silverado HS
- Smith Valley HS
- Somerset Academy * SkyPointe Campus
- Somerset Losee Academica
- South
- Southwest Career and Technical Academy
- Spanish Springs HS
- Sports Leadership and Management Academy of Nevada
- Spring Valley HS
- Steptoe Valley HS
- Summit View HS
- Sunrise Mountain
- Technicians North
- Technicians South
- TMCC HS
- Tonopah HS
- Transition Academy
- Turning Point HS
- Variety HS
- Virgin Valley HS
- Virginia City HS
- Washoe Innovations
- Washoe Inspire Academy
- West Career & Technical Academy
- White Pine (Ely)
- Wooster HS D/HH Program
- Yerington HS
- All
- AACT
- Acceleration HS
- ACE
- Acellus Academy
- Adult Education
- Advantages School International
- Albert M.Lowry HS
- Alpine Academy
- ALT School
- Arbor View HS
- Aspire
- Basic HS
- Battle Born Youth Challenge Academy
- Beacon Academy
- Beatty
- Bishop Manoque HS
- Blind & Visually Impaired
- Boulder City HS
- Burk Horizon Southwest Sunset Academy
- C.O. Bastian
- Carson HS
- Central Technical Academy
- Charter Schools North
- Churchill County HS
- College of So NV HS East (CSN)
- College of So NV HS South (CSN)
- College of So NV HS West (CSN)
- Connections Academy
- Coral Academy
- Counselors North
- Counselors South
- Cowan Academic Center
- Damonte Ranch HS
- Dayton HS
- Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students
- Delta Academy
- Desert Oasis HS
- Desert Pines
- Desert Rose
- Doral Red Rock Academy
- Douglas HS
- Douglas Nevada Online (DNO)
- Durango HS
- East Career Technical Academy
- Eldorado
- Elko HS
- Encompass Academy
- Eureka County HS
- Explore Academy
- Fernley HS
- Gabbs HS
- Galena HS
- George Whittell HS
- Gerlach HS
- Global Community HS
- Helen J. Stewart School
- Hug HS
- Incline HS
- Indian Springs HS
- Innovations HS
- Inspire Academy
- John F. Miller School
- King's Academy
- Las Vegas Academy of the Arts
- Laughlin HS
- Lincoln County HS
- Lund HS
- Marvin Picollo School
- Mater Academy
- Mater Academy North
- McQueen HS
- Miley Achievement Center
- Mineral County HS
- Mission HS
- Moapa Valley HS
- Nevada Learning Academy
- Nevada State HS
- Nevada State HS North
- Nevada Youth Training Center High School
- New Horizons Academy
- Newton Learning Center
- Next Step
- Northstar Online
- Oasis Charter School
- P2I-UNR
- Pahranagat Valley HS
- Palo Verde
- Pearson Online
- Pershing County HS
- Peterson Behavioral
- Pioneer HS
- Pre Employment Services
- Project Focus
- Project Search
- Pyramid Lake HS
- Rainshadow Charter School
- Redfield Academy
- Reed HS
- Reno HS
- RISE Academy
- Round Mountain HS
- Sage Ridge HS
- Sandy Valley HS
- Shadow Ridge HS
- Sierra Lutheran HS
- Sierra Nevada Academy
- Sierra Vista HS
- Silver Stage HS
- Silverado HS
- Smith Valley HS
- Somerset Academy * SkyPointe Campus
- Somerset Losee Academica
- South
- Southwest Career and Technical Academy
- Spanish Springs HS
- Sports Leadership and Management Academy of Nevada
- Spring Valley HS
- Steptoe Valley HS
- Summit View HS
- Sunrise Mountain
- Technicians North
- Technicians South
- TMCC HS
- Tonopah HS
- Transition Academy
- Turning Point HS
- Variety HS
- Virgin Valley HS
- Virginia City HS
- Washoe Innovations
- Washoe Inspire Academy
- West Career & Technical Academy
- White Pine (Ely)
- Wooster HS D/HH Program
- Yerington HS
Success Stories
Kerstin Law
Kerstin began her journey with Vocational Rehabilitation in May 2021, during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. At intake, she held an associate’s degree and soon began pursuing her bachelor’s in graphic design at Sierra...
Donna Bates
Donna BatesBEN Operator Donna was born with Optic Atrophy, where the main nerve from the eyes to the brain is not operating at full capacity. While her mother aided her growing up, her greatest lessons to her daughter were...
Keon Mays
Keon Mays began his journey with Vocational Rehabilitation in 2022, determined to rebuild his life after a devastating car accident that left him paralyzed from the chest down. Living with paraplegia, he primarily uses a...
Success Stories
Kerstin Law
Kerstin began her journey with Vocational Rehabilitation in May 2021, during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. At intake, she held an associate’s degree and soon began pursuing her bachelor’s in...
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