TRC News & Views, Volume 3, Number 7, July 1981 Page: FRONT COVER
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TEXAS REHABILITATION COMMISSION
Vol. 3, No. 7 Austin, Texas July, 1981
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Funding, Future, Topics of supervisors MeetingLast month, for the first
time in nearly three years,
all of TRC's supervisors were
in the same place at the
same time. They met in
Kerrville, June 16 and 17.
Meeting with them was a
nearly equal number of
Central Office personnel,
from department heads to
Commissioner Arrell. For a
day and a half, the meeting
focused on where TRC is,
and where it's going.
Commissioner Max Arrell
kicked off the meeting with
what could be called a
"State of the Commission"
address. Arrell commented
on the legislative and finan-
cial circumstances that will
impact the future of voca-
tional rehabilitation in Texas.
"I would like to tell you
we'll have more resources,expanded programs and ex-
panded services to new dis-
abilities," he said, "but we
won't." "We will maintain
the vocational rehabilitation
philosophy," he added, "but
the future calls for emphasis
on the vocational aspect of
that philosophy. We have to
concentrate on clients we
genuinely feel have the
potential to work." Arrell
said Commission officials are
presently working on guide-
lines that will help coun-
selors and supervisors deter-
mine when a client has good
potential for work. The new
guidelines will be placed in
the Rehabilitation Services
Manual on Sept. 1.
The Commissioner said
the Commission will be more
assertive in telling its story
to state and federal law-makers who determine TRC's
funding level. "We have
been low key in the
past...because funding was
pretty much a sure thing,"
he said. "In the future, we
will contact every legislator
and will call on our employ-
ees to contact lawmakers in
their areas."
Finally, Commissioner
Arrell said he expects TRC
supervisors to be good man-
agers, "not only program
managers, but financial and
personnel managers." "For
the money they spend on our
salaries," he said, "the
people of Texas deserve good
management."
Deputy Commissioner
Doyle Wheeler echoed the
Commissioner's concerns
about funding in his address
to the supervisors. Wheeler
stressed that TRC will have
less money for client serv-
ices in the future though, at
this point, no one knows how
much less. Whatever the
amount, Wheeler emphasized,
employees will have to pay
special attention to conserva-
tion of client service funds.
He detailed the work of
several committees which
are setting definitive guide-
lines to determine who is
eligible for TRC services and
when a counselor should say
"no" to a person seeking
services. (Cont. on p.2)mMs m
Commissioner Max Arrell addresses the supervisors' meeting in Kerrville.
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