Current through Register No. 40, October 3, 2024
(a) An individual shall participate in an
initial assessment interview with department staff:
(1) During the eligibility determination
process for TANF financial assistance or financial assistance for unemployed
parents;
(2) Whenever an individual
volunteers for NHEP; or
(3)
Whenever the status of the individual changes from exempt to mandatory
participation in NHEP.
(b) Participation in an initial assessment
interview shall be required for any NHEP participant who:
(1) Is 18 years of age or older; or
(2) Has not completed high school or the
equivalent, and is not attending school.
(c) For the initial assessment, the NHEP
participant shall provide written and verbal information on skills, prior work
experience and employability for the purposes of:
(1) Determining the need for any immediate
assistance or services;
(2)
Determining if the individual is required to participate in NHEP-related
services or activities; and
(3)
Immediate placement into the labor market.
(d) The referred NHEP client shall complete
an assessment interview with the NHEP representative.
(e) During the assessment interview, the NHEP
client shall provide the following:
(1) The
client's employment history, including:
a.
Work experience;
b. Start and end
dates;
c. Reasons for leaving;
and
d. Hourly wages;
(2) The client's employment and/or
training preference, including:
a. What the
client would like to do for work;
b. Whether the client is interested in
education or training and what type; and
c. The client's availability for full-time or
part-time work;
(3) The
client's skills and abilities, including:
a.
Highest grade level completed;
b.
Skills acquired from work, training or hobbies;
c. Related employment, education or training
information;
d. Past participation
with an employment or training agency;
e. Aptitude or literacy tests taken in the
past; and
f. Difficulties in
reading and/or writing;
(4) Potential barriers to immediate
employment or employment preparation, including:
a. Need for child care assistance,
transportation or other support services needs;
b. Health problems that would prevent NHEP
participation; and
c. Immediate
issues or family circumstances, including serious problems dealing with
children, that need to be resolved prior to participation; and
(5) Any other factors that should
be considered before making referral to a NHEP activity.
(f) Factors to be considered by a NHEP
representative in order to determine referral of a participant to an activity
pursuant to RSA
167:85 shall be:
(1) The type and level of the participant's
marketable skills considering:
a. The demand
for the participant's marketable skills in the local labor market;
and
b. The demand in the local
labor market for vocationally specific or technical proficiency skills and the
extent to which the participant has obtained these skills;
(2) The participant's work experience
history;
(3) The participant's
educational history;
(4) The
participant's work habits and behaviors;
(5) The participant's aptitude and
motivation;
(6) Insofar as
possible, the participant's job interests and preferences;
(7) The extent of support services needed by
and available to the participant;
(8) How the referral might effect other
activities in the employability plan, including time limit requirements for a
specific activity to which the NHEP client might be referred;
(9) The coordination of the activity with
other required or necessary activities, including community activities and
activities mandated by another agency;
(10) The evaluation of training and post
secondary activities that utilizes the fewest program resources that will lead
to employment in the shortest timeframe and at a wage sufficient for the
participant to be independent of financial assistance; and
(11) The screening for serious and
substantial personal barriers, including physical or mental impairments,
disabilities of clients and/or their children and reasonable accommodations,
substance abuse, past felony convictions, intimate partner violence, low
literacy and learning disabilities.
(g) In addition to the criteria in (f) above,
the following conditions shall be met for a referral to a training or post
secondary education activity:
(1) The
participant lacks the skills that will be obtained in the training or
education;
(2) Job opportunities
are currently available in the local labor market in the referred field of
education or training and immediate employment following training or post
secondary education is expected; and
(3) The participant has appropriate work
habits and behaviors or can be reasonably be expected to develop such behaviors
within the training or educational program.
(h) The department shall be the payor of last
resort, and all available funding options shall be explored prior to approving
the participant in a training or educational program.
(i) In addition to the criteria in (f) above,
the following conditions shall be met for a referral to work experience and
community service program activities:
(1) The
participant lacks the skills necessary for paid employment;
(2) The participant lacks significant work
experience; and
(3) The participant
needs to develop appropriate work habits and behaviors.
(j) In addition to the criteria in (f) above,
participants who report serious and substantial personal barriers as described
in He-W
637.01(k) , shall be referred to
interim activities specified at
RSA
167:91,III(a) -(e) .
(k) In addition to the criteria in (f) above,
participants who lack a high school diploma or the equivalent and are not
required to participate in basic educational activities, shall be referred to
basic educational activities when:
(1) The
participant requests referral to this activity;
(2) The participant is meeting participation
requirements pursuant to
RSA
167:85; and
(3) The referral is specified on the
employability plan.
(See Revision Note at Chapter Heading He-W 600) #6446,
eff 2-1-97; paragraphs (a)-(c) EXPIRED: 2-1-05; paragraphs (d)-(f) amd by
#8269, eff 2-1-05; paragraphs (a)-(c) amd by #8740, INTERIM, eff 10-13-06,
EXPIRED: 4-11-07; paragraphs (a)-(c) & (f)-(k) amd by #8869, eff
4-19-07
The amended version of this section by
New
Hampshire Register Number 6, eff.
2/1/2023 is not yet
available.
