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• What barriers does she have that might affect a work site placement? • What kind of work site position will appeal to her?

Once the ESW has the answer to these questions, work can begin on matching the client with a work experience position, or on developing a position for the client. The client can identify her own work site placement as long as it with a public or private non-profit organization willing to enter into a work site agreement with the agency.

There may be some situations in which a participant was sanctioned for non compliance at a CWEP or PSP sites. The client has completed an act of compliance and the sanction is lifted. The ESW would like to assign the participant to another CWEP or PSP, but due to a negative history at assignments for CWEP and PSP there are no other placements available. In this circumstance, the participant should be encouraged to develop her own worksite.

The agency will work with the client to secure any evaluations, counseling, or treatments needed to resolve the reasons for the non-compliance, or which would support the client being exempted from VIEW due to a verified physical or mental health condition.

3. Limitations on Work Site Assignments

a. The participant will not be required to use her public assistance income or personal resources to pay costs incurred while participating on a work site assignment.

b. The work site must be within a reasonable distance from the participant's home. The travel time from the participant's home to the work site cannot be more than one hour each way, based on transportation available to the participant.

c. The participant cannot be permanently placed in the position of a worker who is on sick leave, annual leave, leave without pay, or any other granted leave with or without pay. The participant cannot displace persons currently assigned to established, unfilled positions. The participant must not perform tasks which would have been undertaken by current employees or which would have the effect of reducing the work hours of paid employees.

d. The participant will not be assigned to work sites which are totally involved in political, electoral or partisan activities. The participant may be assigned to sites developed in the office of an elected official, however the participant cannot be required to engage in political, electoral, or partisan activities.

4. Criteria for CWEP Placements

a. A client can be assigned to CWEP immediately after the initial job search.

b. A client whose initial job search was waived because she had previously participated in VIEW during her current 2-year period of TANF eligibility may be assigned immediately to CWEP following assessment.

c. The initial assignment to CWEP shall be for a period of up to six months.

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