Sec. 308. Assisted placement
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Individuals eligible for assisted placement shall include— individuals who have been unable to find Program employment within 30 days following the certification of their eligibility for such employment; individuals who are certified as eligible for assisted placement by a one-stop center because of special circumstances that make it unlikely the individual will be able to find employment within a reasonable period of time without assisted placement services; and individuals whose qualifications and work experience are such that they need additional training to qualify for a job that pays enough to meet their own and their dependent’s reasonable needs.
For purposes of this paragraph and subsection
(c)of this section, the term dependents shall mean persons claimable as dependents on the individual’s Federal income tax return. The Secretary shall engage in notice-and-comment rulemaking to establish a methodology for developing reasonable-needs standards for use in implementing this paragraph. Upon the registration of an eligible individual for assisted placement services, the Assisted Placement Office shall— assess the individual’s qualifications for employment and his or her interests in particular kinds of employment or training; identify opportunities for Program employment that appear to be suitable for the individual in light of the individual’s qualifications and interests, along with any training opportunities that also may be of interest to the individual; discuss these opportunities for Program employment and training with the individual; for those opportunities the individual expresses an interest in pursuing, contact the grant recipient offering the opportunity, remind the grant recipient of its obligation to cooperate with the Assisted Placement Office in placing individuals in Program employment or desired training, and arrange an interview for the individual to explore whether a mutually acceptable placement is possible with the grant recipient; follow up with both the individual and grant recipients to whom the individual has been referred to ascertain whether a placement has been achieved, and if not why; provide individual counseling and support services for individuals eligible for assisted placement as needed to achieve a successful placement; provide support services and additional funding to grant recipients, as needed, to accommodate the special needs of individuals who need such accommodation to find and succeed in Program employment or training; and continue to work with the individual until a successful placement in Program employment or grant-funded training has been achieved, or until the Assisted Placement Office concludes, supported by adequate documentation, that the individual is unable or unwilling to provide the level of cooperation required to obtain and succeed in Program employment or grant-funded training, in which case the Assisted Placement Office shall offer assistance to the individual in arranging appropriate services to address the problems that are interfering with the individual’s ability to find and succeed in Program employment or training. To the extent necessary to ensure that individuals who qualify for assisted placement under this section are able to earn enough to meet their own reasonable needs and those of their dependents, the Assisted Placement Office shall have the authority— to arrange preferential placement for such individuals in grant-funded training programs, and following the completion of their training, provide assisted placement services to such individuals to ensure that they secure employment inside or outside the Program in a job that utilizes their newly acquired skills; to the extent necessary, to meet their reasonable needs, provide such individuals with preferential access to goods and services produced by the Program, such as affordable housing and childcare services; to supplement the income of such individuals with the equivalent of a voucher for housing assistance under section 8(o) of the United States Housing Act of 1937, if such a voucher is not otherwise available; and to furnish such individuals with other income supplements that expand eligibility for or add value to the Earned Income Tax Credit ( 26 U.S.C. 32 ), the Child Tax Credit ( 26 U.S.C. 24 ), or the Low Income Home Energy Assistance program ( 42 U.S.C. 8621 et seq.). Grant recipients shall cooperate with efforts to provide assisted placement to individuals eligible for assisted placement under subsection (a). This duty shall mean, among other things, that a grant recipients must have good cause to refuse Program employment to a person referred to it for assisted placement.
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