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County Program Contact Information County MFIP Biennial Service Agreement\nA. Needs Statement (continued) Employment Services Provider(s) Information NAME Population Served County MFIP Biennial Service Agreement B. Service Models Minnesota Family Investment Program (MFIP) and the Diversionary Work Program (DWP)\n1. Do you have culturally specific employment services for different racial/ethnic groups? No Yes\n2. What strategies do you use for hard-to-engage participants? Check all that apply. Home visits Sanction outreach services Incentives Off-site meeting opportunities Other\n3. What types of job development do you do? Check all that apply. Sector job development Individual job development Other\n4. Do you have an ongoing job development partnership or sector based job development with community employers to help participants with employment?\n5. Do you provide job retention services to employed participants while they are receiving MFIP?\n6. Do you provide job advancement services to employed participants?\n7. Do you utilize any career pathways programs or skill assessment and credentialing programs for your participants? County MFIP Biennial Service Agreement\nB. Service Models (continued) Family Stabilization Services (FSS)\n1. Do you have professionals available to assist with FSS cases? No Yes Check all that apply Adult Mental Health professional Public Health Nurse Psychologist Chemical Health professional Adult Rehabilitation Mental Health Services (ARMHS) worker Social Worker Children's Mental Health professional Vocational Rehabilitation worker Other\n2. Do you make referrals for children of FSS participants? No Yes Check all that apply Children's Mental Health Services Women, Infants and Children Program (WIC) Public Health Nurse home visiting services Other Child Wellness Check-ups\n3. Are any of these services for children offered to non-FSS families? 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Do you provide services to families who are not receiving DWP or MFIP assistance but are under 200% of the Federal Poverty Guideline (FPG)?", "hash": "8353dab7ff6bdf7618ae7bbf3349ee22", "id": 1}, {"snippet_links": [{"key": "assistance-services", "type": "definition", "offset": [36, 55]}, {"key": "in-\u2587", "type": "clause", "offset": [231, 235]}, {"key": "lack-of", "type": "clause", "offset": [252, 259]}, {"key": "transportation-options", "type": "clause", "offset": [288, 310]}, {"key": "housing-options", "type": "clause", "offset": [335, 350]}, {"key": "the-primary", "type": "clause", "offset": [371, 382]}, {"key": "barriers-to-employment", "type": "clause", "offset": [383, 405]}, {"key": "at-present", "type": "definition", "offset": [566, 576]}, {"key": "child-care-providers", "type": "definition", "offset": [608, 628]}, {"key": "shut-down", "type": "definition", "offset": [634, 643]}, {"key": "capacity-limits", "type": "clause", "offset": [674, 689]}, {"key": "respond-to", "type": "definition", "offset": [763, 773]}, {"key": "temporary-shutdowns", "type": "clause", "offset": [863, 882]}, {"key": "to-maintain", "type": "clause", "offset": [933, 944]}, {"key": "the-\u2587", "type": "clause", "offset": [957, 962]}, {"key": "the-challenges", "type": "clause", "offset": [1034, 1048]}, {"key": "existing-providers", "type": "definition", "offset": [1054, 1072]}, {"key": "a-child", "type": "definition", "offset": [1142, 1149]}, {"key": "need-to-meet", "type": "clause", "offset": [1287, 1299]}, {"key": "training-requirements", "type": "clause", "offset": [1321, 1342]}], "size": 1, "samples": [{"hash": "3NTjdMDrk8m", "uri": "/contracts/3NTjdMDrk8m#needs-statement", "label": "Mfip Biennial Service Agreement", "score": 21.8781661987, "published": true}], "snippet": "1. Identify challenges in financial assistance services that are prohibiting you from properly serving MFIP/DWP families in your community? The three primary challenges that we have identified in properly serving MFIP/DWP families in \u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587 County are lack of child care options, lack of transportation options, and lack of affordable housing options. Child care: One of the primary barriers to employment cited by MFIP/DWP applicants and participants is lack of child care openings. Pre-COVID, this was primarily an issue for people employed evenings or overnight. At present, it is a pervasive issue. Some child care providers have shut down and some have decreased their capacity limits. Parents are always aware of the possibility that a provider may need to respond to COVID exposure quickly. Most do not have a reliable back up plan for those unanticipated temporary shutdowns. This has led to a hesitancy to look for work, or to maintain employment. The \u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587 County Child Care Coalition is aware of the lack of providers and the challenges that existing providers and their customers face; alternatively, people considering becoming a child care provider are also aware of the unique challenges that currently exist. Compensation remains low for this important service, and the need to meet stringent safety and training requirements may also play into the reluctance of people to become child care providers.", "hash": "488c9faa91a46b15f664a44ea7dfec1a", "id": 2}, {"snippet_links": [{"key": "assistance-services", "type": "definition", "offset": [68, 87]}, {"key": "determining-eligibility", "type": "clause", "offset": [270, 293]}, {"key": "living-arrangement", "type": "definition", "offset": [352, 370]}, {"key": "sponsored-immigrant", "type": "definition", "offset": [573, 592]}, {"key": "employment-services", "type": "clause", "offset": [652, 671]}, {"key": "rural-area", "type": "clause", "offset": [784, 794]}, {"key": "employees-with", "type": "clause", "offset": [847, 861]}, {"key": "new-residents", "type": "clause", "offset": [914, 927]}, {"key": "the-job", "type": "clause", "offset": [982, 989]}, {"key": "options-available", "type": "clause", "offset": [1038, 1055]}, {"key": "adult-basic-education", "type": "definition", "offset": [1089, 1110]}, {"key": "english-language-learners", "type": "definition", "offset": [1119, 1144]}, {"key": "a-long", "type": "clause", "offset": [1183, 1189]}, {"key": "to-acquire", "type": "definition", "offset": [1195, 1205]}, {"key": "english-fluency", "type": "clause", "offset": [1206, 1221]}, {"key": "of-employment", "type": "clause", "offset": [1253, 1266]}, {"key": "for-non", "type": "clause", "offset": [1275, 1282]}, {"key": "available-to", "type": "definition", "offset": [1394, 1406]}, {"key": "please-check", "type": "definition", "offset": [1446, 1458]}, {"key": "resources-available", "type": "clause", "offset": [1467, 1486]}, {"key": "the-resource", "type": "definition", "offset": [1512, 1524]}, {"key": "a-community", "type": "clause", "offset": [1540, 1551]}, {"key": "career-planning", "type": "clause", "offset": [1663, 1678]}, {"key": "lab-access", "type": "clause", "offset": [1729, 1739]}, {"key": "credit-counseling", "type": "definition", "offset": [1740, 1757]}, {"key": "financial-literacy", "type": "definition", "offset": [1758, 1776]}, {"key": "culturally-appropriate-services", "type": "definition", "offset": [1777, 1808]}, {"key": "housing-assistance", "type": "definition", "offset": [1851, 1869]}, {"key": "job-development", "type": "clause", "offset": [1879, 1894]}, {"key": "job-placement", "type": "definition", "offset": [1895, 1908]}, {"key": "job-retention", "type": "definition", "offset": [1909, 1922]}, {"key": "job-search", "type": "definition", "offset": [1923, 1933]}, {"key": "mental-health-services", "type": "clause", "offset": [1944, 1966]}, {"key": "training-programs", "type": "clause", "offset": [1979, 1996]}, {"key": "education-planning", "type": "clause", "offset": [2012, 2030]}, {"key": "work-experience", "type": "clause", "offset": [2072, 2087]}, {"key": "transportation-assistance", "type": "clause", "offset": [2088, 2113]}, {"key": "vehicle-repair", "type": "clause", "offset": [2137, 2151]}, {"key": "volunteer-opportunities", "type": "clause", "offset": [2158, 2181]}, {"key": "youth-programs", "type": "clause", "offset": [2182, 2196]}, {"key": "community-resources", "type": "definition", "offset": [2223, 2242]}, {"key": "county-program-contact-information", "type": "clause", "offset": [2260, 2294]}, {"key": "please-list", "type": "clause", "offset": [2326, 2337]}, {"key": "program-areas", "type": "clause", "offset": [2422, 2435]}, {"key": "staff-contact", "type": "clause", "offset": [2450, 2463]}, {"key": "contact-phone", "type": "clause", "offset": [2475, 2488]}, {"key": "contact-email-address", "type": "clause", "offset": [2502, 2523]}, {"key": "teen-parent", "type": "definition", "offset": [2773, 2784]}, {"key": "information-list", "type": "definition", "offset": [3063, 3079]}, {"key": "current-employment", "type": "clause", "offset": [3085, 3103]}, {"key": "population-served", "type": "clause", "offset": [3172, 3189]}, {"key": "name-and-address", "type": "clause", "offset": [3191, 3207]}, {"key": "contact-person", "type": "definition", "offset": [3208, 3222]}], "size": 1, "samples": [{"hash": "frzyTILwlaU", "uri": "/contracts/frzyTILwlaU#needs-statement", "label": "Biennial Service Agreement", "score": 17.8590011597, "published": true}], "snippet": "1. What is the single biggest challenge you are facing in financial assistance services besides funding? Financial assistance services are challenged by addressing the needs of the African refugee/immigrants to Kandiyohi County. Challenges include language barriers and determining eligibility when large families sometimes need to split the household living arrangement or double up with other households. We are now seeing a surge of secondary immigrants and sponsored immigrants. It is a challenge to identify and locate sponsors and determine their contribution to the sponsored immigrant.\n2. What is the single biggest challenge you are facing in employment services besides funding? Kandiyohi County has experienced a large influx of refugees and immigrants from Africa. In our rural area there is one employer with the capability of hiring employees with limited or no English speaking ability. Many of the new residents have obtained employment there, however, if they lose the job or are not hired, there are no other employment options available. We have worked extensively with Adult Basic Education to help English Language Learners, however we are finding that it takes a long time to acquire English fluency. The language barrier and lack of employment options for non English speakers is the biggest challenge for employment services.\n3. What strengths and resources do you have available to address the need of your participants? Please check all the resources available to you and check whether the resource is in-house or a community resource or both. If you lack the resources, then check the Resource Gaps column. 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What is the single biggest challenge you are facing in financial assistance services besides funding? Hiring and maintaining a full complement of staff. During this past biennium, we have experienced considerable staff turnover due to resignations, retirements and medical leave requests. Coupled with major policy changes in healthcare services and an increase in caseload sizes, maintaining consistency and meeting required timelines has been difficult.\n2. What is the single biggest challenge you are facing in employment services besides funding? The single biggest challenge faced with employment services is the lack of a county-wide transportation infrastructure. While some of our larger cities have a small bus rider system, the hours of operation are limited. Therefore, the single biggest challenge in Ottertail County is transportation.\n3. What strengths and resources do you have available to address the need of your participants? 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Besides funding, what is the single biggest challenge you are facing in financial assistance services? The single most challenging issue facing FAS is system modernization, specifically dealing with system interoperability between METS and MAXIS, and the lack of MAXIS to respond timely to legislative changes. Legislative changes, program migration, and modernization has outpaced the ability of MAXIS to be updated or patched to meet requirements. This has resulted in delays in benefit issuance and reduced availability of workers to respond to client requests for assistance. Recent legislative changes surrounding the MFIP Housing Assistance Grants, and the migration of Medical Assistance cases to METS have brought the limitations of MAXIS into sharp focus. Legislative updates regarding program administration and qualifications for Housing Assistance Grants resulted in on going manual issuance of benefits for an extended period, and necessitated the manual issuance of retroactive benefits by both county and state employees. This manual process drew already limited employee hours away from providing customer service and ongoing benefits issues. Additionally, lack of intersystem operability between MAXIS and METS has resulted in the duplication of work between METS and MAXIS program requirement, as well as the creation of new processes and communication methods to ensure documents and information provided to a METS worker is shared with the corresponding MAXIS worker and vice versa. Given recent experiences, it is our concern that these issues will continue to surface, creating additional work flow disruptions, and new demands on the work force to take action to ensure client received accurate and timely benefits.\n2. Besides funding, what is the single biggest challenge you are facing in employment services? Employment is one of the key factors that contribute to a person\u2019s health and wellbeing. Employment has a direct impact on a person\u2019s individual success, improves child\u2019s outcomes and helps people become part of the larger community. Everyone benefits from employment and everyone benefits from having opportunities for improved and continuous employment that lead to improved family stabilization. In the Minnesota Family Investment Program (MFIP) and the Diversionary Work Program (DWP), participants are encouraged and expected to work. Gainful employment, self-sufficiency, and economic independence are goals for every family. Supports are provided to enable them to go to work, and earnings disregards ensure they are better off financially when they work.\n1.) To encourage and enable all families to find employment; 2.) To help families increase their income and move out of poverty; and 3.) To prevent long-term dependence on welfare as a primary source of family income. \u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587 County Workforce Solutions has identified four success predictors \u2013 the 4Es (engagement, education, employment and employment retention) as practical ways to operationalize opportunity for participants. These success predictors influence our work with, and support of, participants on their path to self-sufficiency, economic independence, and family stabilization. In ensuring that MFIP and DWP employment services works for each family on public assistance, supporting guided self-determination for all families and as a racial equity strategy is the biggest challenge Workforce Solutions faces in a mandatory service delivery environment. Workforce Solutions maintains a focus on equity while assuring that the needs of all our clients are addressed: \u2022 Through on-going community collaboration \u2022 Through participant engagement and \u2022 Through guided self-determination. Community Collaboration: Since early disparity reduction projects in 2002, Workforce Solutions has sought input from and listened to the African American, American Indian, and Hmong communities. This partnership led to the creation of the culturally specific agency model, where services incorporate and build on participant, family, community and cultural assets by providing support, resources, and skills to help participants support themselves and contribute to the welfare of their families and communities. Currently, Workforce Solutions has relationships with three culturally specific employment service providers and the Network for the Development of Children of African Descent (NdCAD), an agency providing culturally specific services rooted in African heritage. The services target both parent and children. Services for children are focused on helping children improve literacy skills. Culturally specific services are one of the three concepts including cultural competence and culturally informed services, applied at Workforce Solutions public assistance programs. At WFS, cultural competence is the willingness and ability of staff at all levels to analyze and reflect upon the power imbalance. Beyond the mastery of knowledge about particular cultures, staff emphasize cultural competence through a willingness and ability to exercise humility and adopting a stance of inquiry and refraining from making assumptions. It also involves recognizing participants\u2019 individual resilience and cultural strengths. Culturally informed services manifest a consideration of and response to the inequitable distribution of power. Focusing less on what staff members know about other cultures and more on what they don\u2019t know, contracted agencies develop programs in consultation with representatives from participants\u2019 communities, communicate to participants respectfully in a language and format they are comfortable with, and deliver services in a manner that attends not just to programmatic and administrative details, but also to human details. Components of the culturally specific employment services are: \u2022 the contracted agency employs management and direct service staff who reflect the race(s), ethnicities, and culture(s) of the participants \u2022 the agency delivers services to increase participants\u2019 employability in a manner that both acknowledges and responds to the legacies of historical trauma, racism, inequality, and poverty \u2022 incorporate and build on the participant\u2019s cultural values, beliefs, and traditions. Internally, to ensure equity progress, Workforce Solutions has developed a Racial Equity Action Team to provide leadership, educational opportunities, and developmental support to: 1) increase our personal understanding of the origins of race, diversity, cultural competency, white privilege, and institutional racism; 2) increase our skills in the development and delivery of equitable services, policies and practices; and 3) strengthen our ability to engage in partnership with businesses, partners, clients, and the community to create equitable outcomes. Engagement: The concepts described above have deeply impacted all Workforce Solutions services due to the emphasis on participant engagement, personal agency and self-determination in the planning/goal- setting process leading to employment. Engagement is an equity strategy. Guided self-determination is an engagement strategy. Together, family stabilization and self-sufficiency for all are system goals built on effective, culturally appropriate engagement and guided self-determination. Workforce Solutions has sought to replace the \u201cwhat is the matter with the participant?\u201d question with \u201cwhat matters to the participant?\u201d all the while focused toward the goal \u2013 employment, stability, family fiscal health and wealth. We no longer believe that the holding of the power by the system and the counselor, fitting the person into a process rather than into a solution, is the effective way towards self-sufficiency. The dreams and hopes of the participants, as well as the participant\u2019s applied personal power, have a larger role in driving their goal setting, action planning, and achievement. Guided Self-Determination Self-determination is the personal decision to do something - the right to decide for oneself; it is the unique individual pursuing own independent a uniquely self-determined path \u2013 with support from the counselor. Self-determination practices put the participant in the center. Person-centered services are about the sharing of power between the counselor and the participant. Person-centered practices recognize each participant to be a whole individual with unique strengths, assets, interests, expectations, cultures and goals. Person-centered practices use a \u201cpower with\u201d approach rather than a \u201cpower over\u201d approach. The participant already has power. WFS aims to assist the participant to recognize and unleash their own power \u2013 making their own choices, pursuing work, financial stability and their future. At the point of services between a counselor and participant, the participant\u2019s choice fuels the conversation. Workforce Solutions added the word \u201cguided,\u201d to clearly designate the assistance and support provided to the self-determining participant by the employment counselor, and to highlight that the participant is not in this journey alone. The promotion of guided self-determination in participants and the strengthening of participant essential skills and behaviors are key to the Workforce Solutions\u2019 employment services equity vision in \u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587 County. 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