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[PROGRAM COMPNENTS: TANF WORK

Volume III | Chapter 9

MISSISSIPPI 9100

9089 ACTIVITES DEFINED]

Revised 08-01-12 11-01-17

Job Skills Training (Directly Related to Employment) - “Non-core” Activity Job skills training directly related to employment is training or education for job skills required by an employer to provide an individual with the ability to obtain employment or to advance or adapt to the changing demands of the workplace. Job skills training can include customized training to meet the needs of a specific employer or training that prepares an individual for employment, including literacy and language instruction, if necessary, to enable the participant to perform a specific job or engage in a specific job training program. For example, an employer needs five welders and training is designed specifically to prepare individuals for the job. Job skills training providers must provide structured activities and daily supervision. NOTE: The job skills training activity will be used to track vocational education activities after a participant has used the 12-month, lifetime maximum allowed for VOC/EDU. Job skills training activities that also meet the definition of vocational education activities should be tracked as VOC/EDU if the individual has not exhausted the 12-month, lifetime maximum. The local WIN Job Center is the primary resource to link TANF participants with employer- specific job skills training programs. Job skills training programs must meet the following minimum requirements to be acceptable as an allowable non-core work activity: 1. The training offered by the program must be related to the types of employment or educational goals contained in the EDP; 2. The training must accept the participant and offer the participant the means to develop skills and competencies as a result of its training; 3. The training must provide ongoing, daily supervision; and 4. The program must provide qualitative measures for judging satisfactory progress of participants, and report that progress to the case manager MDES interviewer. The case manager must be knowledgeable about job skills training opportunities and coordinate