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Local Vocational Centers for Persons with Disabilities and Large Region Vocational Centers for Persons with Disabilities provide vocational rehabilitation services to meet the various needs of persons with disabilities and employers in order to promote the employment of disabled individuals and their employment security.

Act on Employment Promotion for Persons with Disabilities, Vocational Rehabilitation is defined as taking measures stipulated in this law, including vocational guidance, vocational training and employment placement, and promoting independence in working life.

With the provision of vocational counselors for persons with disabilities and in close cooperation with related bodies such as public employment offices (Hello Work), Employment and Life Support Centers for Persons with Disabilities, hospitals and special needs schools, these centers serve as core vocational rehabilitation facilities in each prefecture by providing vocational rehabilitation services based on the local needs.

1 Services for Persons with Disabilities

Vocational Evaluation & Guidance

The centers elicit individual employment desires, evaluate vocational capability and provide consultation and guidance. Based on this process, the centers create a Vocational Rehabilitation Plan according to individual conditions, including support content and assistance methods for adjustment to the workplace.

Work Preparation Support

Assessment of Persons with Intellectual and Severe Intellectual Disabilities

Individuals determined to have intellectual disabillities or severe intellectual disabilities at the centers are also targeted for employment measures including calculation of disabled workers for the employment quota.

2 Services for Employers

3 Services for Persons with Disabilities and Employers

Support Offered by Job Coaches

Comprehensive Employment Support for Persons with Mental Disabilities

In cooperation with the doctors in charge, the centers provide professional and comprehensive support for employers and persons with mental disabilities in order to satisfy their various needs for new employment, the return to work and the continuation of employment.

Return to Work Support

The following support is provided to promote the smooth return to work for persons with mental disabilities that have been on leave.

(1) Coordination for return to work

Through consultation involving the person with mental disabilities, employer, and doctor in charge, assistance is provided to reach a consensus among the three parties regarding the process and goal of the return to work.

(2) "Re-work Support" (Support for returning to work)

Employment Promotion Support and Support for Continued Employment

In order for persons with mental disabilities to move forward smoothly with employment and work adjustment, the centers provide work preparation support and work adjustment guidance based on the Vocational Rehabilitation Plan designed according to individual circumstances. In order for employers to move forward smoothly with the employment and continuation of employment of persons with mental disabilities, the centers provide advice and assistance regarding employment management including recruitment planning, and work adjustment guidance. According to needs, the centers provide support of job coaches and follow-up services in order to promote the continuation of stable employment.

4 Advice and Assistance related to Vocation Rehabilitation for Relevant Local Institutions

As the core institution for vocational rehabilitation services in each region, the centers provide services in close cooperation with Hello Work and the employment support institutions concerned.

The centers provide professional and technical advice and assistance related to vocational rehabilitation, including how to formulate support plans and how to implement support as well as how to coordinate with other organizations, to relevant institutions such as Employment and Life Support Centers for Persons with Disabilities and work transition support providers.

In addition, the centers promote the acquisition of the necessary basic knowledge and skills for implementing effective vocational rehabilitation by offering a Basic Employment Support Course to Work transition support providers and employees responsible for employment support in welfare agencies and organizations related to medical care. Furthermore, the centers hold a Local Vocational Rehabilitation Promotion Forum for those institutions and facilities concerned as well as employers, and promote the formation of a common recognition of employment support for persons with disabilities in order to promote the development of local vocational rehabilitation networks.

5 Training of Job Coaches

The centers provide services such as on-the-job training at business establishments and case studies, which are part of the job coach training program.

With assigned vocational counselors for persons with disabilities and vocational training instructors, these centers provide vocational rehabilitation services, including vocational evaluation, guidance and training, in cooperation with medical rehabilitation facilities.

The National Vocational Rehabilitation Center for Persons with Disabilities and the National Kibi-Kogen Vocational Rehabilitation Center for Persons with Disabilities actively take in persons with disabilities from large regions throughout the country who require special support for vocational training including persons with mental disabilities, developmental disabilities, and higher brain dysfunctions, and implement pioneering vocational training.

Based on the results of such activities, these centers develop vocational training content and teaching techniques for persons with disabilities who require special support for vocation training. As well as compiling manuals and so on, they offer the information widely through exchange meetings for instructors of ability development for persons with disabilities and training for instructors at other vocational ability development facilities, in order to contribute to raising the overall level of vocational training for persons with disabilities.