If you are a vocational rehabilitation agency that provides self-employment assistance to people with disabilities, your feedback is valuable to help us fine tune our products and services to better meet your needs. Thank you for filling out our Self-Employment Program Survey! Organization Name Contact Name Title Phone Number Email Address Street Address City State Zip       1. What best describes how you handle self-employment cases?   We have a established a self-employment person / committee and have a system in place at the regional and/or local levels to handle self-employment cases   Our regional or local offices handle all self-employment clients on a case-by-case basis   We don't have a specific self-employment program but can provide those types of services if requested.   Other:       2. Do you provide business plan development assistance for clients seeking self-employment?   We provide business plan development assistance in-house   We contract out to community agencies to provide business plan development assistance   We refer consumers to free resources like the Small business Development Resource Centers or SCORE   We expect clients to have a business plan ready before they apply for assistance from us       3. How to you handle business plan evaluations?   We have a regional or local committee or individual within our organization that handles all evaluations   We have individual counselors determine if the business plan is acceptable.   We contract out to an agency / entity that evaluates the business plans for us.       4. Do you have written guidelines that your state has adopted for self-employment cases and may we have a copy of those guidelines for our research?   We have no written guidelines   We have written guidelines but there are for internal use only   We have written guidelines and you can find them on our website / we can email them to you       5. What are your counselor’s greatest needs when it comes to working with self-employment clients?     Less Important Somewhat Important Very Important better screening tools to determine if self-employment is appropriate quality assistance with business plan development help determining if a business / client will be successful – the chances for success keeping expenditures in check Extra guidance when problems come up Determining when the case can be successfully closed Other:       6. Would you be interested in an online program that would help you evaluate and work with self-employment clients?   Yes   Maybe   No