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COMBINED MANUAL

ISSUE DATE 09/2016

ORIENTATION TO FINANCIAL SERVICES

0005.12.12.06

● The requirement to comply with Employment Services.

● Information about Employment Services Providers available and the option to choose an Employment Services Provider.

● A description of the range of work and training activities that are allowable under MFIP to meet the individual needs of participants, which includes:

- Unsubsidized employment.

- Subsidized private or public sector employment, including Grant Diversion.

- Work experience, including Community Work Experience Program (CWEP).

- On-the-job training.

- Job search and job club.

- Job readiness assistance.

- Job-related counseling and job coaching.

- Job retention services.

- Job skills training directly related to employment.

- Pre-employment activities, based on availability and resources, such as volunteer work, literacy programs, citizenship and English as a second language classes, chemical dependency treatment, mental health services, displaced homemaker programs, parenting education, or other programs designed to help families reach their employment goals and enhance their ability to care for their children.

- Community service programs.

- Vocational educational training or educational programs that can reasonably be expected to lead to employment.

- Apprenticeships and internships.

- Satisfactory attendance in GED or adult diploma programs.

- Satisfactory attendance in secondary school or Adult Basic Education (ABE) classes.

- Bilingual employment and training services.

- Providing child care services for another participant who is working in a community service program.

Give the caregiver a copy of Education and Training in MFIP (DHS-3366) (PDF), which explains the general parameters that govern education and training.

● Notification that the county may NOT impose a sanction for failure to comply when the participant has good cause because of the unavailability of child care. See 0028.18 (Good Cause for Non-Compliance - MFIP/DWP). You must explain good cause, including:

- The definition of terms used in determining the inability to obtain appropriate child care. See 0028.18.02 (MFIP Good Cause--Child Care).

- That participants cannot be sanctioned if appropriate child care is not available.