This is defined as training or education for job skills required by an employer to provide an individual with the ability to obtain employment or to advance or adapt to the changing demands of the workplace. This can include customized training to meet an employer’s needs or general training that prepares a participant for employment. This can include literacy instruction or language instruction or barrier-removal activities when such instruction is explicitly focused on skills needed for employment or combined in a unified whole with job training. Daily supervision is required.
Job skills training may include short-term training programs or coursework designed to refresh, upgrade, advance, or renew job-related skills.
Adult Basic Education (ABE) and English as a Second Language (ESL) courses can count as stand-alone activities, but must be combined with a core activity.
The cost of job skills training may not be paid with program money except under special circumstances.
For information on study time that can count as actual hours of participation in this component, see 468-000-307.
The case manager must submit a request to the EF Unit in Central Office for authorization to provide payment for this type of expense, i.e. tuition, books, fees, supplies, and equipment.
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