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Experience positions have been used to motivate and encourage recipients to find paid employment. c. Contribution to meeting of goals: Work Experience can contribute to the meeting of the following goals: • Employment • Meeting Federal Participation Rates • Providing employment services 8. GED/HS Completion for Teen Heads of Household a. Description: It is the objective to make every effort to ensure that teenage heads of household remain in school and graduate or receive a high school equivalency. They must satisfactorily attend school, and this will be determined by the public school or community colleges definition of "satisfactory". In some cases, teens have dropped out of school prior to graduation to supplement the family income. This is a short-term and inadequate solution to a problem, and must be avoided whenever possible. b. Provision: The Work First employment program will identify and target teen heads of household as quickly as possible once they are recipients of Work First to ensure that they do indeed remain in school and satisfactorily attend according to Work First policy guidelines. Those already out of school and pursing a GED will be required to pursue other work-related activities in addition to the GED, per Work First guidelines. This will be monitored monthly, with attendance sheets and performance reports signed by the school official. The Family Support Specialist will work with families to better ensure that households are not in a position where teens in school feel compelled to drop out to assist in the support of the household. c. Contribution to meeting of goals: School completion for teen heads of households can contribute to meeting the following goals: • Meeting Federal participation rates • Employment • Prevention of welfare dependency • Staying off welfare 9. Vocational Educational Training a. Description: Vocational Educational Training is designed to provide a particular curriculum of skills to a recipient in an intensive, relatively short- term program to gain them employment in a particular occupational area. For recipients that display the ability and commitment to follow through, it will most likely get them higher wages than they otherwise would realize without the training. It is limited to 12 months. b. Provision: Vocational Education courses of study are offered by the local community college, and would be provided after recommendation by the Family Support Specialist. Compliance with attendance and satisfactory performance would be monitored no less than monthly, or at an interval determined by the social worker, by an attendance/performance sheet signed by the school official. Page 7119 Attachment number 1 \n F-7 Page 80