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18 employment planning with a licensed clinical therapist (LCT) assigned to each employment center. Economic service areas statewide are responsible for providing multiple opportunities for disclosure, referral, and for maintaining and training on resource referral information in the community. Interagency agreements will address the following items:

● FEP assistance must be clearly defined as employment based. ● Employment planning includes assessments to determine skills, limitations, and current circumstances. The employment plan will be monitored no less than every four months. Problem solving, sanctions, and case closures are consequences of non-compliance. ● Services offered include: Access to community resources, brief therapy via the LCT, short term therapy via contracted providers, long term therapy via medical provider and consideration of participation exemptions while accessing services to reduce or resolve risk for self and children.

Utah opts out of the TANF requirement that a parent who is capable of engaging in work must engage in community service employment after receiving TANF assistance for 24 months. Utah continues to require universal engagement for all work eligible parents unless reasonable cause not to participate is provided. Utah utilizes public and non-profit internships when determined appropriate to provide participants with the opportunity to enhance their employability by gaining basic work experience, on-the-job training, and the development and preservation of basic job skills and good work habits through a positive community work experience. Community work sites are only developed with sponsors who are federal, state, or local government units or agencies, or private non-profit organizations. Each sponsor signs an agreement that they will not replace regular employees with interns and that the work position did not result in the displacement of persons currently employed or the filling of established, unfilled vacancies, unless the sponsor can show that unfilled positions are the result of funding cutbacks.

Utah's efforts in providing opportunities for the unemployed and underemployed individual continues to be focused on competitive employment. Local employment centers offer employers assistance in finding qualified employees. Staff use the Family Employment Program to assist individuals in becoming prepared for those jobs. The goal of DWS is to provide the labor market with qualified competitive employees. Utah's current economy provides those competitive opportunities for the majority of individuals who are receiving assistance from FEP.

The Family Employment Program is consistently implemented across the state. Providing meaningful opportunities to participants in all areas of the state is an expectation of the program and local service delivery sites. Employment centers may choose what resources are necessary to the area for the success of an individual to achieve employment and provide those resources. The only area that may vary is where individuals reside on the Navajo Nation's tribal lands. The Navajo Nation has chosen to implement its own TANF programs, Native Employment Works (NEW) and Navajo Nation Program for Self-Reliance, which were effective January 1, 2007.

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