3-008.01B Education or Training

If the client is requesting child care in order to attend training or an educational activity beyond secondary school or GED classes, the training or education must:

1. Be consistent with the client’s employment goals; and 
2. Be in a program that will help the client achieve or maintain economic self-support. 

In order to ensure that participation in training or an educational activity is meaningful and productive, the client must be in good standing or making satisfactory progress in his/her educational activity. The educational institution’s standard is to be used to determine good standing and satisfactory progress. A client may still be considered as making satisfactory progress if below the institution’s standard if there are mitigating circumstances which affect the individual’s performance during the specified period of time.

A client may receive Child Care Subsidy for ROTC activities, athletic events and practices, or other activities like musical practices if participation is dependent on a scholarship.
Child Care Subsidy is not allowed for correspondence courses or independent study.
For online classes, a client may receive an hour of child care a week for each credit hour.
If there is structured individual tutoring or group preparation time (e.g., GED preparation, English as a Second Language, Adult Basic Education), Child Care Subsidy may be approved for this time.