EMPLOYMENT PROGRAMS

(a) The Texas Workforce Commission by rule shall develop the following programs to assist recipients of financial assistance and services under this chapter and nonrecipient parents in finding and retaining employment:

(1) a work first program that provides a participant job readiness training and employment information and services that will motivate the participant to find and apply for a job through job clubs, job readiness activities, and job search activities;

(2) a business internship program that provides a participant the opportunity to obtain marketable job skills through an internship in a participating business;

(3) a Texas works program that:

(A) is operated by a nonprofit group or local governmental entity;

(B) provides to a participant motivational and job readiness training by placing the participant in a job for a period of several months;

(C) ensures that the participant is visited at work and receives counseling and help in resolving any work-related or personal problems; and

(D) receives funding on the basis of participants who are successfully hired for employment;

(4) a community work experience program that provides a participant job training and work experience through a temporary job in the public sector;

(5) a subsidized employment program that provides to a participant job training and work experience through a job in the private sector that pays the participant a subsidized salary; and

(6) a self-employment assistance program that provides to a participant entrepreneurial training, business counseling, and technical and financial assistance so that the participant can establish a business and become self-employed.