©Rural and Agriclutral VocRehab RURAL & AGRICULTURAL VOCREHAB Rutland~ Howe Center 800-281- 6977...

©Rural and Agriclutral VocRehab

RURAL & AGRICULTURAL VOCREHAB

Rutland~ Howe Center 800-281-6977St. Albans ~ 278 S Main St 800-639-2130St. Johnsbury ~ 107 Eastern Ave 800-545-8920

Providing Services in Support of Employment to Rural

VermontersWith Disabilities since 1968


Dedicated to:

• Vermont farmers, market gardeners, food producers, and agriculturalists who maintain the working landscape and provide safe, first quality, locally grown, produced and manufactured products for our communities and markets in Vermont, across the country and around the world.


• Four Generations of a Vermont agricultural family


Finding common ground


Cultivating Healthy Communities

• Catamount Partnership Community Hero Awards ~ Honors local farmer for her work in helping others


Maintaining good relationships in the office or on the road


Due to spinal stenosis this farmer needed a new air suspension seat to support him in his work.


Tractor step extensions on both sides of this tractor greatly reduce the stress of getting on and off for the farmer who has had a hip replacement

“This was so simple I don’t know why I didn’t think of it long ago” ~ Orange County Farmer


• Things we wish we’d thought of long ago


This market gardener with multiple arthritic conditions demonstrates use of a flame thrower to weed and maintain her gardens.


• Potatoes in wire baskets allow her to simply knock over the soil to harvest her crop of several varieties


Modified used golf cart has freed the farmer to work many areas of her land that she can not reach on foot, carry supplies and have a safe shaded place to rest.

Yes she

Kayaks too!


The path to the back forty, fit for the golf cart


Calf cart & power wagon help this farmer with multiple disabilities to work safer and smarter


“Pick Your Own Blueberries” is this retired teachers dream, complicated orthopedic conditions present significant challenges.


Get this mulch on these berries with this Gator!!


Culled 3 times by hand this quality berry

product is delivered to 4 Farmers Markets

and 3 Food Cooperative

sin Addison

County


The oldest live Elm

in Vermont


Collaborations among agencies and programs brings expertise

and diversity to services.


Vermont Arthritis Program


• AgrAbility assists people with disabilities employed in agriculture by linking Cooperative Extension at land-grant universities with a nonprofit disability service organization to provide education and assistance that promotes independence in agricultural production and rural living.


Northern New England AgrAbility• Services available at No Cost to Farm

Families include: • Assessing agricultural tasks and providing

guidance to accommodate for the disability • Evaluating (or "reviewing") agricultural

worksites and equipment and making suggestions or modifications.

• Researching commercially available products

• Identifying ways to prevent secondary injury and illnesses.

• Conducting training and workshops for rehabilitation and agricultural professionals.


RAVR, Northern New England AgrAbility Project and a farmer who has significant mobility limitations.

collaborated to develop and install this lift


Northern New England

AgrAbility

Farming Successfully with a Disability


Certified Orthotist starts state of the art business in Townshend!


Customers from all over the country are finding their way to VT for custom shoes made entirely by hand


Her own orthopedic concerns sent this enterprising woman on a search for the perfect shoe….she found it in her own workshop


This kettle cook making specialty jams, jellies, and condiments is smiling and back to work after multiple orthopedic surgeries


These VT made delicacies go to Farm Markets and Community Supported Agriculture programs in New York City weekly as well as local Farmers Markets and stores.


• Simple equipment modifications can be made to help people work during recovery and rehabilitation


• This is one high class utility cart


• Livestock is a 24/7 obligation, animals have to be tended regardless of how the farmer feels today


• This piece of equipment picks up bales of hay from


This piece


• And stacks them on the hay wagon ~ so that


This farmer can cut and bale thousands of bales of hay with the help of one other worker


• Giving him plenty of time to fix the road


UVM faculty and staff bring the excellence of the University to RAVR’s work


Outreach to meet the audience who needs services


•There are no fees for service• Eligibility for Rural & Agricultural

VocRehab services:The presence of a physical or mental disability which, for the individual, constitutes or results in a substantial impediment to employment, and evidence that vocational rehabilitation services are needed to prepare for entering, engaging in, or retaining gainful employment.

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