Ohio Admin. Code 5101:14-1-01 - Comprehensive case management and employment program: definitions
The following definitions apply to this rule and other rules in division 5101:14 of the Administrative Code.
(A) "Adult mentoring" means providing a
one-to-one relationship between an adult and a youth, whose purpose is to build
positive, supportive relationships between youth and adults and to provide
positive adult role models for youth.
(B) "Basic skills deficient" means a youth
who has English reading, writing, or computing skills at or below the eighth
grade level on a generally accepted standardized test or who is unable to
compute or solve problems, or read, write, or speak English, at a level
necessary to function on the job, in the individual's family, or in
society.
(C) "Career pathway" means
a combination of rigorous and high-quality education, training, and other
services that:
(1)(2) Align with the
skill needs of industries in the economy of the state or regional economy
involved;
(2)(3) Prepare an
individual to be successful in any of a full range of secondary and
postsecondary education options, including apprenticeships registered under the
National Apprenticeship Act (1932);
(3)(4) Include counseling
to support an individual in achieving the individual's education and career
goals;
(4)(5) Include, as
appropriate, education offered concurrently with and in the same context as
workforce preparation activities and training for a specific occupation or
occupational cluster;
(5)(6) Organize education,
training, and other services to meet the particular needs of an individual in a
manner that accelerates the educational and career advancement of the
individual to the extent practicable; and
(6)(7) Enable an
individual to attain a secondary school diploma or its equivalent, and at least
one recognized post-secondary credential;
and
.
(7)
Help an individual
enter or advance within a specific occupation or occupational
cluster.
(1)
Help an individual enter a career and develop a plan for
career advancement within a specific occupation, occupational cluster or
industry through increased work experience, education and/or credential
attainment.
(D)
"Certificate of high school equivalence" has the same meaning as in section
5107.40
of the Revised Code.
(E) "Chief
elected official" means the chief elected executive officer of a unit of
general local government in the local area or, in the case of a local area that
includes more than one unit of general local government, the individual or
individuals designated as the chief elected official or officials in an
agreement that specifies the roles of chief elected executive officers in the
local area.
(F) "Comprehensive
guidance and counseling" includes career and
academic counseling, drug and alcohol counseling, mental health
counseling, and referral to partner programs for such services.
(G) "Coordination" means collaboration
between comprehensive case management and employment program (CCMEP) lead
agencies, the local board, subcontractors, county departments of job and family
services, and the OhioMeansJobs (OMJ) centers in order to increase youth access
and connections to CCMEP services. Access and connections includes any of the
following:
(1) Coordination and provision of
youth activities.
(2) Linkages to
the job market and employers to facilitate job
placement .
(3) Access to
CCMEP for eligible youth.
(4)
Services for non-eligible youth such as basic labor exchange services, other
self-service activities such as job searches, career exploration, use of career
center resources, and referral as appropriate.
(5) Other activities described in section
129(b) and (c) of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act
of 2014
(2014)(WIOA).
(6) Co-locating CCMEP staff at the OMJ
center.
(H) "Eligible
training providers" means entities, such as institutions of higher education,
registered apprenticeship programs, recognized
pre-apprenticeship programs, or other public or private providers of a
program of training service, which are eligible to receive WIOA funding based
upon meeting certain criteria established by the state.
(I) "Enrollment" begins with the date a
program participant signs
acknowledges the individual opportunity plan
(IOP) which includes the assignment and
participation in
provision of at least one CCMEP service and ends with
exit in accordance with rule
5101:14-1-06
of the Administrative Code.
(1) This IOP data
shall be inputted into the Ohio
Ohio's workforce case management system
(OWCMS) as described in paragraph
(H)(2)
(H)(1)
of rule
5101:14-1-04
of the Administrative Code.
(2) For
Ohio works first work-eligible individuals, enrollment shall begin no sooner
than the date cash has been authorized.
(J) "Entrepreneurial skills training"
provides training on the basics of starting and operating a small
business.
(K) "Exit" means the
process of ending a program participant's services in the CCMEP.
(L) "Exit date" means the date when the last
service ended and there are no plans to provide the participant with future
services. This date cannot be determined until at least ninety days have
elapsed since the program participant last received services. This does not
include a self-service, information-only service, or follow-up
service.
(M) "Fiscal biennial
period" means a two-year period beginning on the first day of July of an
odd-numbered year and ending on the last day of June of the next odd-numbered
year.
(N)
"Follow-up services" are the services provided after exiting
to ensure youths' success during their transition to employment and further
education and to provide assistance as needed for a successful
transition.
(R)
"Individual Opportunity Plan (IOP)" documents the
individual service strategy (ISS) outlined in rule
5101:14-1-04
of the Administrative Code and is mutually developed, implemented, and revised
by the client and case manager to include a set of employment, education, and
personal development goals, service objectives, and a plan of action to achieve
the identified goals, services provided, and results.
(1) Individual training account (ITA)
expenditures are costs required by the training institution to complete the
training. ITA costs required to complete the training may include, but are not
limited to: tuition and fees; books, tools; uniforms; tests; and for WIOA
funding only, medical immunization/tests.
(2) ITA costs do not include any supportive
service costs related to the ITA (e.g. transportation or child care).
(1)
Exposure to post-secondary educational possibilities;
(2) Community and service learning
projects;
(3) Peer-centered
activities, including peer mentoring and tutoring;
(4) Organizational and team work training,
including team leadership training;
(5) Training in decision-making, including
determining priorities and problem solving;
(6) Citizenship training, including life
skills training such as parenting and work behavior training;
(7) Civic engagement activities which promote
the quality of life in a community; and
(8) Other leadership activities that place
youth in a leadership role such as serving on youth leadership
committees.
(1) Provides knowledge or skills
essential to the full and adequate performance of the job;
(2) Is made available through a program that
provides reimbursement to the employer of a percentage of wage rate of the
participant; and
(3) Is limited in
duration as appropriate to the occupation for which the participant is being
trained, taking into account the content of the training, prior work experience
of the participant, and the IOP for the participant.
(1) Is
a
an eligible
mandatory or voluntary CCMEP participant;
(2) Has signed
acknowledged
an IOP that includes one or more assignments and
participation in a CCMEP activity
services that has
have been entered into OWCMS
Ohio's workforce case
management system ; and
(3)
Has not been exited from participation in CCMEP in accordance with rule
5101:14-1-06
of the Administrative Code.
(1) Community services;
(2) Access to health care;
(3) Transportation, child and dependent care,
housing, uniforms, work attire and work-related tools;
(4) Books, fees, school supplies, and other
necessary items for students enrolled in post-secondary education
classes;
(5) Payments and fees for
employment and training-related applications, tests, and
certifications;
(6) Educational
testing; and
(7) Reasonable
accommodations for youth with disabilities.
TANF funds shall be used in a manner reasonably calculated to accomplish one or more of the following purposes:
(1) Provide assistance to needy families so
that children may be cared for in their own homes or in the homes of
relatives;
(2) End the dependence
of needy parents on government benefits by promoting job preparation, work and
marriage;
(3) Prevent and reduce
the incidence of out-of-wedlock pregnancies and establish annual numerical
goals for preventing and reducing the incidence of these pregnancies;
or
(4) Encourage the formation and
maintenance of two-parent families.
(1) Cash, payments, vouchers, and other
forms of benefits designed to meet a family's ongoing basic needs (i.e., for
food, clothing, shelter, utilities, household goods, personal care items, and
general incidental expenses). It includes such benefits even when they are:
(a) Provided in the form of payments by a
TANF agency, or other agency on its behalf, to individual recipients;
and
(b) Conditioned on
participation in work experience or community service (or any other work
activity described in
45 C.F.R.
261.30 (2008)).
(c) Except where excluded under paragraph
(KK)(2)
(MM)(2) of this rule, it also includes supportive
services such as transportation and child care provided to families who are not
employed.
(2) TANF
assistance excludes:
(a) Non-recurrent,
short-term benefits that:
(i) Are designed to
deal with a specific crisis situation or episode of need;
(ii) Are not intended to meet recurrent or
ongoing needs; and
(iii) Will not
extend beyond four months.
(b) Work subsidies (i.e. payments to
employers or third parties to help cover the costs of employee wages, benefits,
supervision, and training);
(c)
Supportive services such as child care and transportation provided to families
who are employed;
(d) Refundable
earned income tax credits;
(e)
Contributions to, and distributions from, individual development accounts
(IDAs);
(f) Services such as
counseling, case management, peer support, child care information and referral,
transitional services, job retention, job advancement, and other
employment-related services that do not provide basic income support,
and
(g) Transportation benefits
provided under a job access or reverse commute.
(1)
Increase opportunities for individuals, particularly those with barriers to
employment;
(2) Support alignment
of workforce investment, education, and economic development systems;
(3) Provide workers with the skills and
credentials to secure and advance in employment;
(4) Promote improvement in the structure and
delivery of services;
(5) Increase
prosperity of workers and employers; and
(6) Increase the employment, retention, and
earnings of participants and increase the attainment of recognized
post-secondary credentials.
Notes
Promulgated Under: 119.03
Statutory Authority: 5116.06
Rule Amplifies: 5116.01, 5116.02, 5116.03, 5116.06, 5116.10, 5116.11, 5116.12, 5116.20, 5116.21, 5116.22, 5116.23, 5116.24, 5116.25
Prior Effective Dates: 03/24/2016, 10/01/2017
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