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The county director will monitor AWEP and community service placements each month to ensure AWEP and community service placements do not exceed the 6-month limitation without written approval from the regional director or designee. Verification of the regional director’s approval must be scanned to the case record and the PACR screen in JAWS documented accordingly. The county director will also monitor AWEP placements with child care facilities to ensure individual placements do not exceed a maximum of three (3) TWP participants at any given time. TWP participants placed in child care facilities are prohibited from working or caring for the same age group of their own children. The county director is responsible for approving all entities utilized by the county as AWEP and community service worksites. Page two of the AWEP/Community Service Agreement, MDHSEA366, is used to document county director approval. If the entity is a private for-profit entity, the county director must also sign and date page one of the MDHS-EA-366 and check the appropriate block to indicate his/her approval or disapproval. Forms MDHS-EA-366, Alternative Work Experience/Community Service Agreement, and MDHS-EA-375, Approval of an Entity for Work Program Placements, and any other supporting documentation must be submitted to the county director for approval. A fully executed agreement must be in place prior to making any TWP volunteer placements. The forms will be maintained in the county’s administrative files. Alternative Work Experience Program (AWEP) placements are made with private nonprofit and private for-profit entities that provide the individual an opportunity to acquire the general skills, training, knowledge, and work habits necessary to obtain the employment goal or successfully accomplish the career goal identified in the individual’s employability development plan. Work site sponsors for private for-profit entities are required to submit a written progress report for each TWP volunteer placement every 90 days at a minimum, or more frequently, if deemed necessary. Progress reports should discuss in detail the participant’s responsibilities, duties performed, skills learned, work behavior, and areas needing improvement, etc. Progress reports will be filed in the TWP Temp Docs folder of the individual’s electronic case record. Community service placements are made with public entities and are limited to projects that serve a useful public purpose in fields such as: health, social service, environmental protection, education, urban and rural redevelopment, welfare, recreation, public facilities, public safety, and child care. Community service activities are structured programs that provide a direct benefit to the community and improve the employability of the participant. Self-initiated community service activities are subject to approval by the county director and completion of an AWEP/Community Service Agreement, MDHS-EA-366. Individuals participating in AWEP and community service placements continue to receive their

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