1. Opportunity Starts Today!!
Workforce Solutions Brazos Valley WOA/Choices Orientation

2. If you are not willing to learn, then no one can help you.
If you are determined to learn,
then no one can stop you!
-Author Unknown

3. Equal Opportunity Statement
“The Texas Workforce Commission (TWC) as a recipient of Federal financial assistance
is prohibited from discriminating against any individual in the United States,
on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, political affiliation and belief”

4. Businesses/Employers
Your One-Stop
Serves two customers
The Job Seeker
And
Businesses/Employers

5. Business Services

6. My Role
To assist employers by connecting them to a trained and qualified workforce
To motivate and assist you in your job search and or career path
Assess your skills
Determine your interests
Develop jobs

7. Your Role To be a willing, hopeful and excited participant
To accept change
To acknowledge that it will be as easy or hard as you decide to make it
To look forward to a new chapter in your life and the lives of your children
To be ready to work

8. Emerging Occupations
Executive Secretaries and Administrative Assistants (25,000-60,000 yr)
Automotive Service Technicians (30,000-55,000 yr)
Licensed Vocational Nurses/Registered Nurses (28,811-60,000 yr)
Customer Service Representative (24,000-36,000 yr)

9. Contact Info
Abigail Gonzales–Davis
Job Developer
Workforce Solutions Brazos Valley
Ext.2090

10. Job Search/Employment Services

11. Resource Room Tools……. Copy machines Fax machines Phones Computers
Labor Market Information (LMI)

12. Job Readiness and Job Placement
Workshops
Employment applications
Prepare for interviews
Resume development
Job Matching
Job development
Paid and unpaid work experience
On-the-job-training

13. Enhanced Services Workforce Investment Act (WIA)
Trade Adjustment Act (TAA)
Workforce Investment Act-Youth
SNAP - Employment & Training
Veterans Employment and Training
Choices
Rapid Reemployment Services

14. Services are available based on need, funding and eligibility
Support Services
Child Care
Transportation, i.e., trolley passes/gas vouchers
Work clothes, tools and equipment
Other job related expenses, i.e., food handler’s license
Services are available based on need, funding and eligibility
Don’t wait until you are certified, ask a Career Coach about these services !!

15. Accessible Equipment TTY’s (Tele-Typing Device) Screen-Reader Software
ASL Interpreters
Local career centers must receive a 24 hour notice for ASL interpreters

16. Choices

17. TANF is Temporary Government assistance is temporary
Texans are responsible for the support of themselves and their families
Employment is the goal

18. One Time or Ongoing One Time TANF=$1,000.00 Ongoing TANF
For short term crisis
Ongoing TANF
Choices Participation required
If not required to participate, transitional childcare may be available

19. Time Limits Federal - 5 year lifetime limit
State - 12, 24, or 36 months limit
Dependent on recent work history and education level based on TABE testing scores that will determine your program duration.
Participants Requirements – Participants are required to participate 30 hrs a week.

20. Choices Participation
Active participation:
Work
Training
Job search
Subsidized employment
Work experience
On-the-job training
Support Services are available to participants who are actively looking for work or who become employed

21. Non-Participation Results in immediate sanction
This discontinues all of the family’s TANF cash benefits, Adult Medicaid benefits and support services

22. Concurrent Sanctions
Under federal requirements, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) recipients who fail to cooperate with Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) work requirements must be treated as is they failed to cooperate with SNAP Employment and Training requirements, unless otherwise exempt.
When a SNAP recipient fails to cooperate with a Choices work requirement, staff must impose a SNAP E & T sanction, unless the individual is exempt for participation in SNAP E &T.

23. SNAP E & T Sanction
Sanction will be imposed within 10 calendar days from notice of noncooperation, unless the household is pended for additional verification to qualify for an exemption.
Prior to imposing a sanction, staff must:
- Verify if individual received SNAP during month of non-compliance
HHSC will also verify other possible reasons for exemption from sanction prior to imposing the sanction.

24. Reinstatement of TANF/SNAP Benefits
Procedure for TANF Reinstatement
Participant must demonstrate one full month of cooperation before benefits are reinstated.
PLEASE NOTE: Participant will go one month without TANF Benefits and Adult Medicaid
Procedure for SNAP Reinstatement
. Individuals sanctioned for noncooperation with any SNAP work requirement must serve their minimum penalty period – 3 months, unless becoming exempt.

25. Employment Services for Choices
Job readiness activities:
Self-esteem building
Job search skills
Labor Market Information
Employment goal setting
Resume writing
Interviewing Techniques
Workplace Expectations
Job retention skills
Don’t wait to be certified. Begin your Job Search NOW !

26. Choices Post-Employment Strategies
Extended or ongoing case management
Child care, transportation and work-related expenses
Job search and Job Placement
Mentoring
Additional career planning and counseling

27. Benefits of Employment
Positive Impact on your children
Better Lifestyle
Independence and Self-Sufficiency
Securing a place in a productive society
Positive Self-image
Positive Role model

28. Annual Wage and Benefit Scenarios 2015

29. Hourly Wage and Benefit Scenarios 2015

31. Workforce Solutions Brazos Valley
Contact Info: Ericka Butler-Career Coach Ext Thank You
Workforce Solutions Brazos Valley