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12. Vocational education and training – programs including but not limited to those offered through colleges, community colleges, adult education, and regional occupation centers; 13. Job search/job readiness – training in basic job seeking and interviewing skills and understanding employer expectations and employee obligations; 14. Education directly related to employment – education related to a specific occupation, job, or job offer. The activity is primarily for adult education leading to a General Education Development (GED) credential or high school equivalency diploma, where required as a prerequisite for employment; 15. Programs leading to a GED certificate or satisfactory progress in secondary school as needed by an individual to become employed; 16. Non-medical mental health counseling, treatment, and rehabilitation activities necessary to obtain and retain employment; 17. Non-medical substance abuse counseling, treatment, and rehabilitation activities necessary to obtain and retain employment; 18. Domestic violence services necessary to obtain and retain employment; 19. In addition, an individual’s WTW activity may include the parent’s participation required by a school to ensure that a child in the AU attends school as required; and 20. Other activities necessary to assist an individual in obtaining unsubsidized employment.

iii. Outline how the state intends to ensure that parents and caretakers receiving assistance under the program engage in work activities in accordance with Section 407.

California has designed a program that provides parents and caretakers receiving CalWORKs cash assistance the opportunity to participate in employment and training activities that will assist them to become economically self-sufficient (See Section A ii. above). To ensure participants engage in work activities, the state’s program also provides necessary supportive services such as assistance with transportation, ancillary, postsecondary ASPs, diaper assistance payments to AUs with children under 36 months of age, child care expenses, and personal counseling for the participant to successfully participate in work or their assigned WTW activities. In addition, all WTW participants have