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106 STAT. 4394 PUBLIC LAW 102-569—OCT. 29, 1992 this Act and title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990; and "(B) may include short-term technical assistance or other effective strategies; "(5) programs and activities that expand and improve the extent and type of client involvement in the review and selection of the training and employment goals of the client; "(6) programs and activities that expand and improve opportunities for career advancement for individuals with severe disabilities; "(7) programs, projects, and activities designed to initiate, expand, or improve working relationships between vocational rehabilitation services provided under this title and independent living services provided under title VII; "(8) programs, projects, and activities designed to improve functioning of the system for delivering vocational rehabilitation services and to improve coordination and working relationships with other State and local agencies, business, industry, labor, community rehabilitation programs, and centers for independent living, including projects designed to— "(A) increase the ease of access to, timeliness of, and quality of vocational rehabilitation services through the development and implementation of policies, procedures, and systems and interagency mechanisms for providing vocational rehabilitation services; "(B) improve the working relationships between State vocational rehabilitation agencies, and other State agencies, centers for independent living, community rehabilitation programs, educational agencies involved in higher education, adult basic education, and continuing education, and businesses, industry, and labor organizations, in order to create and facilitate cooperation in— "(i) planning and implementing services; and "(ii) the development of an integrated system of community-based vocational rehabilitation service that includes appropriate transitions between service systems; and "(C) improve the ability of professionals, clients, advocates, business, industry, and labor to work in cooperative partnerships to improve the quality of vocational rehabilitation services and job and career opportunities for individuals with disabilities; "(9) support efforts to ensure that the annual evaluation of the effectiveness of the program in meeting the goals and objectives set forth in the State plan, including the system for evaluating the performance of rehabilitation counselors, coordinators, and other personnel used in the State, facilitates and does not impede the accomplishment of the purpose and policy of this title, including serving, among others, individuals with the most severe disabilities; "(10) support the initiation, expansion, and improvement of a comprehensive system of personnel development; "(11) support the provision of training and technical assistance to clients, business, industry, labor, community rehabilitation programs, and others regarding the implementation of the amendments made by the Rehabilitation Act Amendments \