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<section article="ghu" article_name="Human Services" number="5-308.2" title_number="5" title_name="Public Assistance" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="Family Investment Program">
  <level label="a">
    <text>The purpose of community service is to improve the employability of individuals who cannot find unsubsidized full–time employment.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>Community service shall:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>be limited to projects that service a useful community purpose in fields including health, social service, environmental protection, education, urban and rural development, welfare, recreation, public facilities, public safety, and child care; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>be supervised on an ongoing basis at least once each day in which the individual is scheduled to participate in the community service.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>The Department may refer an individual to community service for work activity if:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>private sector employment is not available;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>the maximum community service placement for the individual does not exceed 90 days in a 3–year period;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>the Department offers to the individual at least three work activity options that shall include:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>subject to subsection (d) of this section, only one community service option; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>at least one work activity option or a program funded by the federal Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act;</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>the individual chooses the community service for work activity;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>the Department informs the individual that the individual may subsequently change to different work activity;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="6">
      <text>the community service provides skills that match the individual’s personal, career, and family goals to support economic mobility; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="7">
      <text>when making appropriate community service assignments, the Department has considered the individual’s prior training, experience, and skills.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>If the Department offers community service as work activity, the Department may not offer work experience as work activity.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>If at any time the requirements of subsection (c) of this section are not met, an individual placed in community service may request a transfer to different work activity.</text>
  </level>
</section>
