Tennessee action guide · Verified July 29, 2026
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Not started or approaching school exit

Connect school, VR, and MAPs

Coordinate school transition with separate VR, MAPs, and ECF workstreams.

Official sources checked 2026-07-29

Start here

Start Tennessee vocational rehabilitation

Before you start

  • IEP, transition assessments, exit date, postsecondary and employment goals, disability evidence, work experiences, accommodations, school contacts, and adult-service application state.

Who to contact

Use the official TennCare, MCO, DDA regional intake, LTSS Help Desk, Beneficiary Support System, crisis, or protective-reporting route that owns this step.

Use Tennessee ECF CHOICES contacts and application help

Step by step

  1. Ask the school to document agency connections, responsibilities, records, and exit deliverables.
  2. Submit the Tennessee VR referral and track intake, eligibility, counselor assignment, and employment planning.
  3. Explore MAPs if age and program rules fit, while keeping the ECF self-referral and Medicaid work separate.

Expected next

A school transition action, VR intake or decision, MAPs step, ECF event, or named next owner.

Save this proof

IEP and exit records, VR referral, MAPs records, ECF records, contacts, and plans.

If this stalls or the answer is no

Call VR at 833-751-0597 and the ECF or MAPs contact and ask each for its next deliverable.

Beyond Childhood planning aid

Connect school, VR, and MAPs checklist

A Beyond Childhood planning aid derived from the cited official sources.

  • Owner and program
  • Date started
  • Documents supplied
  • Written result or confirmation
  • Current open dependency
  • Next event and date
  • Escalation contact

Derived from Review ECF CHOICES groups, eligibility, and services, Start Tennessee vocational rehabilitation, Use Tennessee Medicaid Alternative Pathways

Official resources

Limits

VR, MAPs, school transition, and ECF CHOICES are separate. MAPs participation does not establish ECF eligibility, priority, a slot, enrollment, or services.

Beyond Childhood’s checklists and prompts are planning aids derived from official sources. They are not official forms, legal advice, eligibility decisions, or guarantees of funding, capacity, quality, or service.

Checked sources

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