Federal program of vocational training and rehabilitation.. Rehabilitation an outgrowth of workmen's compensation. Cooperative effort of Federal and State agencies required.. (c) A State plan is generally provisional and subject to revision... (d) State plans may vary from State to State.. 2. Cooperation of compensation agency and State board. Services that may be rendered by compensation agencies.. (a) Preliminary reports of accidents... (b) Supplementary reports on cases. Services that may be rendered by State boards.. (a) Medical information........ 13. Securing first notifications of cases. (b) Insurance carriers........ (c) Physicians, hospitals, and clinics. (d) State railroad commissions.... (e) Other agencies of notification. 15. Interviewing the disabled person. 16. Determination of eligibility... Analysis of eligibility under the act... (c) Feasibility of training... No conditions as regards residence. Factors to be taken into account.... Selection of a specific employment objective. (c) Change to an unrelated job.......... Cases of return to former job.. Cases of change to a related job.. Cases of change to an unrelated job.. FOREWORD. This bulletin on general administration and case procedure in civilian vocational rehabilitation of persons disabled in industry or otherwise has been prepared under the direction of Mr. Lewis H. Carris, assistant director in charge of the Industrial Rehabilitation Division of the Federal Board for Vocational Education, assisted by the staff of that division. All members of the staff have cooperated actively in the preparation of the bulletin. Special acknowledgment is due to Mr. Oscar M. Sullivan, who assisted materially in the initial stages of outlining Misc. 240, the first draft of this bulletin, and formulating its contents. Free use has been made of Mr. Sullivan's material in this bulletin, and it has been merged in the final text by a process of successive revisions, rewritings, extensions, and rearrangements in staff conferences, and by individual work of staff members in preparing text relating to their respective fields. A first draft of the bulletin (as Misc. 240) has been given wide circulation among State officers and others interested in the development of industrial rehabilitation, as well as among employees of the Rehabilitation (Soldier and Sailor) Division of the Federal Board administering district and local offices in the States. In the final form of the bulletin this tentative draft has been materially revised and rearranged. Credit for authorship can not, therefore, be precisely assigned, but the bulletin as it stands expresses the conclusions of the staff after careful consideration of such experience as is available at this time. It is hoped that they may be found helpful to those appointed in the States to set up administrative systems under State laws. Bulletin No. 1 of the Industrial Rehabilitation Series formulated tentatively the administrative policies adopted by the board under the provisions of the act. The present bulletin considers rehabilitation from the point of view of State administration, Part I dealing with general administration and questions of general policy, and Part II with the details of case procedure. Uniformity of practice in the promotion and maintenance of industrial rehabilitation work from State to State is not proposed or anticipated, since in the Federal act comparatively few specific conditions have been imposed upon the States entering into cooperation with the Federal Government in this social-economic enter prise. States are left entirely free severally to develop plans adapted to their needs and so formulated as to fit in well with their established systems of social legislation, especially with legislation providing compensation payments and other aid for persons disabled in industry or otherwise. The Federal act is intended to be promotive rather than prescriptive-promotive-that is to say, of an evolutionary and natural development within the States-rather than specifically directive of that development. UEL W. LAMKIN, Director, Federal Board for Vocational Education. INDUSTRIAL REHABILITATION GENERAL ADMINISTRATION AND CASE PROCEDURE. INTRODUCTION. FEDERAL PROGRAM OF VOCATIONAL TRAINING AND REHABILITATION. The industrial rehabilitation act passed by the Sixty-sixth Congress and approved by the President in June, 1920, provides for the promotion of the vocational rehabilitation of persons disabled in industry or otherwise, and for their return to civil employment. Enactment of this legislation legally establishes and defines tho public interest in the conservation of the nation's human resources, and gives legal expression to the conviction that this interest is not limited to the reclamation of persons disabled in military service, but extends as well to embrace the reclamation of every disabled person without regard to the origin of his or her disability. In the development of a program for the conservation of the economic efficiency of our whole citizenry, and for the making and keeping of that citizenry economically fit, the enactment of this law marks an important stage. In the vocational education act of 1917, the nation proclaimed its interest in vocational education as a normal and regular training for all citizens to make them efficient in their chosen vocations. In the soldier rehabilitation act of 1918, it recognized its obligation to reestablish in civil life its disabled soldiers, sailors, and marines. In the industrial rehabilitation act of 1920, it has completed the program by undertaking to promote the conservation of a class which greatly outnumbers our war disabled, namely, of all those disabled "in industry, or otherwise" for whom training is feasible. REHABILITATION AN OUTGROWTH OF WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION. The words just quoted from the title of the act indicate one line of development consummated in this legislation. Persons disabled "in industry" are given separate mention, and in a very real sense, provision for industrial rehabilitation is an outgrowth of our experience under workmen's compensation laws. Starting with a commission of investigation in 1909, the workmen's compensation movement has gone through a rapid evolution in this country. The first effective State acts were passed in 1911. At the present time only |