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E. COMMUNITY WORK EXPERIENCE PROGRAM (CWEP)

Community Work Experience (CWEP) provides an unpaid work placement in a public or private non-profit organization. An assignment to CWEP is appropriate for participants who need to learn or improve skills or work behaviors, or to secure a job reference, in order to find paid employment.

1. Work Site Development

Overview: In order to make the opportunities provided by CWEP available to the VIEW population, the agency will develop and maintain suitable positions at public or private non- profit organizations providing worksites. The following considerations guide the development of worksite positions:

a. Worksite positions must provide opportunities that can be matched to client interests and abilities in order to enhance employability.

b. Worksite positions must be located at public or private non-profit organizations which provide a useful public function. For-profit businesses or organizations cannot be worksites. Possible worksites include hospitals or other health care facilities, social service agencies and charities, environmental protection agencies, schools and colleges, libraries, urban and rural development organizations, recreational organizations, highway and transportation departments, other public or private non-profit departments, agencies or organizations.

c. Work sites must provide reasonable working conditions and must not violate federal, state, or local health and safety standards. The ESW is not responsible for monitoring working conditions, but must work to bring the worksite into compliance with health and safety standards, or take action to terminate the agreement with the work site if violations become known.

d. Work sites will not be developed in response to, or in any way be associated with, the existence of a strike, lockout, or other bona fide labor dispute, or violate any existing labor agreement between employers and employees.

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