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Volume III | Chapter 9

[PROGRAM COMPONENTS: TANF WORK ACTIVITES DEFINED]

Revised 08-01-1211-01-17

Education Directly Related to Employment - “Non-Core” Activity Education directly related to employment is educational activities related to a specific occupation, job, or job offer for individuals, age 20 or older, who have not received a high school diploma or a certificate of high school equivalency. This includes educational courses designed to provide the knowledge and skills for specific occupations or work settings, but may also include adult basic education, English as a second language (ESL), literacy skills, and GED prep classes. Program activities 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, such as grade point average, as well as a quantitative measure, such as a time frame for completion, for judging satisfactory progress of participants, and report that progress to the case manager MDES interviewer. Attendance Reporting and Monitoring Participant attendance data for education directly related to employment activities coordinated through the Division of Economic Assistance will be documented via form MDHS-EA-356BD, TWP Sign-In Sheet Biweekly Attendance Report. The instructor/supervisor will sign the time sheets to validate the data and submit the forms to the case manager as requested. The case manager will use the daily signin sheets to compile a MDHS-EA-356A, Work Program Attendance Report, and enter The MDES is responsible for completing and submitting the MDHS-EA-356D timely to the designated MDHS case manager. The MDHS case manager will enter the submitted attendance data into JAWS. Participants engaged in self-initiated activities will use MDHS-EA-356, TWP Participant Attendance Report, to report attendance data. Each participant will be required to maintain MDHS-