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
- Acellus Academy
- Adult Education
- ALT School
- Arbor View HS
- Aspire
- Basic HS
- Battle Born Youth Challenge Academy
- Battle Mountain HS
- Beatty
- Bishop Manoque HS
- Blind & Visually Impaired
- Bonanza HS
- Boulder City HS
- C.O. Bastian
- Canyon Springs HS
- Carlin HS
- Carson HS
- Centennial HS
- Central Technical Academy
- Chaparral
- Cheyenne HS
- Churchill County HS
- Cimmarron Memorial
- Clark HS
- Coronado HS
- Counselors North
- Counselors South
- Cowan Academic Center
- Damonte Ranch HS
- Dayton HS
- Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students
- Del Sol HS
- 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
- Eureka County HS
- Explore Academy
- Faith Lutheran
- Fernley HS
- Foothill HS
- Gabbs HS
- Galena HS
- George Whittell HS
- Gerlach HS
- Global Community HS
- Green Valley HS
- Helen J. Stewart School
- Hug HS
- Incline HS
- Indian Springs HS
- Jackpot HS
- Job Discovery Program II
- Las Vegas Academy of the Arts
- Las Vegas HS
- Laughlin HS
- Legacy HS
- Liberty HS
- Lincoln County HS
- Lowry HS
- Lund HS
- Mater Academy
- McDermitt Combines Schools
- McQueen HS
- Miley Achievement Center
- Mineral County HS
- Mission HS
- Mojave HS
- Nevada Learning Academy
- Nevada Youth Training Center High School
- New Horizons Academy
- Next Step
- North Valleys HS
- Northwest Career and Technical Academy
- Oasis Charter School
- Odyssey
- Owyhee HS
- P2I-UNR
- Pahranagat Valley HS
- Pahrump HS
- Palo Verde
- Pearson Online
- Pershing County HS
- Peterson Behavioral
- Pinecrest Academy of Nevada*Cadence Campus
- Pinecrest Academy of Nevada*Sloan Campus
- Pinecrest Academy Virtual
- Pinecrest St. Rose
- Pioneer HS
- Pre Employment Services
- Project Focus
- Project Search
- Pyramid Lake HS
- Rancho HS
- Reed HS
- Round Mountain HS
- Shadow Ridge HS
- Sierra Lutheran HS
- Sierra Vista HS
- Silver Stage HS
- Silverado HS
- Smith Valley HS
- Somerset Academy * SkyPointe Campus
- Somerset Aliante
- Somerset Stephanie
- South
- Southeast Career Technical Academy
- Southwest Career and Technical Academy
- Sparks HS
- Spring Creek HS
- Spring Valley HS
- Steptoe Valley HS
- Summit View HS
- Sunrise Mountain
- Technicians North
- Technicians South
- Thrive Point
- TMCC HS
- Tonopah HS
- Turning Point HS
- Valley
- Variety HS
- Veteran's Tribute
- Virgin Valley HS
- Virginia City HS
- Wells HS
- West Career & Technical Academy
- West Prep Academy
- West Wendover HS
- Western
- White Pine (Ely)
- Wooster HS
- Wooster HS D/HH Program
- Yerington HS
- All
- Acellus Academy
- Adult Education
- ALT School
- Arbor View HS
- Aspire
- Basic HS
- Battle Born Youth Challenge Academy
- Battle Mountain HS
- Beatty
- Bishop Manoque HS
- Blind & Visually Impaired
- Bonanza HS
- Boulder City HS
- C.O. Bastian
- Canyon Springs HS
- Carlin HS
- Carson HS
- Centennial HS
- Central Technical Academy
- Chaparral
- Cheyenne HS
- Churchill County HS
- Cimmarron Memorial
- Clark HS
- Coronado HS
- Counselors North
- Counselors South
- Cowan Academic Center
- Damonte Ranch HS
- Dayton HS
- Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students
- Del Sol HS
- 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
- Eureka County HS
- Explore Academy
- Faith Lutheran
- Fernley HS
- Foothill HS
- Gabbs HS
- Galena HS
- George Whittell HS
- Gerlach HS
- Global Community HS
- Green Valley HS
- Helen J. Stewart School
- Hug HS
- Incline HS
- Indian Springs HS
- Jackpot HS
- Job Discovery Program II
- Las Vegas Academy of the Arts
- Las Vegas HS
- Laughlin HS
- Legacy HS
- Liberty HS
- Lincoln County HS
- Lowry HS
- Lund HS
- Mater Academy
- McDermitt Combines Schools
- McQueen HS
- Miley Achievement Center
- Mineral County HS
- Mission HS
- Mojave HS
- Nevada Learning Academy
- Nevada Youth Training Center High School
- New Horizons Academy
- Next Step
- North Valleys HS
- Northwest Career and Technical Academy
- Oasis Charter School
- Odyssey
- Owyhee HS
- P2I-UNR
- Pahranagat Valley HS
- Pahrump HS
- Palo Verde
- Pearson Online
- Pershing County HS
- Peterson Behavioral
- Pinecrest Academy of Nevada*Cadence Campus
- Pinecrest Academy of Nevada*Sloan Campus
- Pinecrest Academy Virtual
- Pinecrest St. Rose
- Pioneer HS
- Pre Employment Services
- Project Focus
- Project Search
- Pyramid Lake HS
- Rancho HS
- Reed HS
- Round Mountain HS
- Shadow Ridge HS
- Sierra Lutheran HS
- Sierra Vista HS
- Silver Stage HS
- Silverado HS
- Smith Valley HS
- Somerset Academy * SkyPointe Campus
- Somerset Aliante
- Somerset Stephanie
- South
- Southeast Career Technical Academy
- Southwest Career and Technical Academy
- Sparks HS
- Spring Creek HS
- Spring Valley HS
- Steptoe Valley HS
- Summit View HS
- Sunrise Mountain
- Technicians North
- Technicians South
- Thrive Point
- TMCC HS
- Tonopah HS
- Turning Point HS
- Valley
- Variety HS
- Veteran's Tribute
- Virgin Valley HS
- Virginia City HS
- Wells HS
- West Career & Technical Academy
- West Prep Academy
- West Wendover HS
- Western
- White Pine (Ely)
- Wooster HS
- Wooster HS D/HH Program
- Yerington HS
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