6.1 Employability Plan Overview

An Employability Plan (EP) is a written agreement developed collaboratively between the FEP Financial and Employment Planner and the applicant or participant. During the W-2 Wisconsin Works application period, if the applicant is assigned up-front job search, an RS Resource Specialist may write the initial EP.

The EP is a written document that outlines how an applicant or participant will achieve a specific employment goal or, if appropriate, obtain SSI Supplemental Security Income and/or SSDI Social Security Disability Insurance benefits.

The EP details how the individual will participate in the W-2 program to achieve their goals and how the W-2 agency will assist them.

The agency worker must use the information gathered through the assessment process (See 5.1.1 and 5.1.2 ) to develop the EP around the applicant’s or participant’s:

Strengths, interests, aptitudes, and needs;

Prior education and work history;

Strategies to overcome barriers to employment identified through informal and formal assessment;

Assignment of work and training activities to achieve the employment goal; and

Length of time remaining in the W-2 program. (See 6.1.1 )

Each time an EP is developed or changed, The FEP must:

Fill out the EP page in WWP Wisconsin Work Programs ;

Give the applicant or participant an opportunity to sign the EP; and

Give the applicant or participant a copy of the completed EP.

If the applicant or participant refuses to sign the EP, the agreement is still considered binding because the individual committed themselves to W-2 participation when they signed the W-2 Participation Agreement .

When to develop an EP

The EP must be developed with all:

Applicants assigned to Up-Front Job Search (see 2.9.2 ); and

Participants who are assigned to any of the following: A TEMP Trial Employment Match Program , TSP Stipends for Noncustodial Parents , CSJ Community Service Job , or W-2 T W-2 Transition placement; A CMU Case Management Underemployed , CMF Case Management Follow-up , CMF+ Case Management Follow-Up Plus , CMD Case Management Denied , CMJ Case Management Job Ready , or CMN Case Management Noncustodial Parent placement; A CMC Custodial Parent of an Infant , CMP Case Management Pregnant Women , ARP At Risk Pregnancy , or CMM Case Management Minor Parent placement only in circumstances where the participant has volunteered to participate in activities as part of the W-2 program; and A second parent in a two-parent household who participates in W-2 activities. (See Chapter 14 )

The EP must be developed before placing a W-2 participant into an employment position or case management placement.

See 16.3.4 for information on when to develop Learnfare Case Management plans.