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823 Chapter 4:Working with families • Section 9: Employment and training (E & T) services (07/2026) Employment and training (E & T) services Introduction Working with families often includes helping to connect them with services or activities in order to help them reach their goals. For individuals in either the SNAP or TANF program, there are components designed to support participants by connecting them to employment, preparing them for employment and linking them to training. SNAP components Click here for SNAP employment services. TANF components For individuals connected to the TANF program, the Job Opportunity and Basic Skills (JOBS) program is their connection to stability, wellbeing, education and training, job readiness and employment services. The JOBS program seeks to connect participants to activities that will help them achieve their short- and long-term goals. Whether a participant is already working, is ready to look for work, needs additional training or needs to address barriers keeping them from working, there is a JOBS component available to help. Developed as a tool for the staff, the JOBS Activity Guidelines (JAG) is intended to provide a more detailed description of each of the JOBS activity. The JAG also outlines how each activity is connected to support service payments, how each activity may be interconnected to the other programs, as well as best practices for working with families in each activity. Please see link to JAG in Staff Tools.