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| Revision Date | Chapter | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12/6/2023 | Chapter 1: Summer Earn & Learn (SEAL) | Revised | Established new policy, clarified content, and uploaded a new form. |
| 04/05/2023 | Chapter 4: Board VR Contact Standards | Revised | Changed subchapter numbers to align with chapter number. |
| 12/14/2022 | Chapter 4: Board VR Contract Standards | New | Establishes basic standards that apply to all three programs |
| 12/14/2022 | Chapter 1: Summer Earn and Learn (SEAL) | Revised | Clarifies and streamlines policy language |
| 09/03/2021 | Chapter 2: Wage Services for VR Participants in Paid Work Experience | Revised | These changes provide updates and clarification to processes and procedures and establish a new payment structure and rate to reflect all applicable taxes and fees that will be applied across all Local Workforce Development Boards. Note: this chapter was extensively revised and content reorganized. You may view the previous version of Chapter 2. |
| 09/01/2021 | Chapter 3: Student HireAbility Navigator Program | Revised | Revised to clarify program deliverables, establish a Student HireAbility Navigator Mentorship position, and establish performance review measures. |
| 01/21/2021 | Chapter 1: Summer Earn and Learn (SEAL) | Revised | Revised to include new safety recommendations related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Please note: the 30-day notification period for these changes has been waived and changes take effect immediately. |
| 10/30/2020 | Chapter 1: Summer Earn and Learn (SEAL) | Revised | Revised to establish a new deliverable, Worksite Retention, and to further define that monitoring visits must be conducted while the participant is working. Please note: the 30-day notification period for these changes has been waived and changes take effect immediately. |
| 10/19/2020 | Chapter 1: Summer Earn and Learn (SEAL) | Revised | Revised to adjust the fee schedule, to require Boards to submit Work Readiness Training curriculums along with program descriptions, and to require at least one in person monitoring visit. Added new SEAL referral and monthly reporting forms; revised the SEAL monitoring report. |
| 09/15/2020 | Chapter 2: Wage Services for VR Participants in Paid Work Experience | Revised | Updated to allow for the use of electronic signatures on the VR1990, Worksite Agreements and timesheets, and remote verification of I-9 forms. |
| 03/23/2020 | Chapter 1: Summer Earn and Learn (SEAL) | Revised | Updated to align with basic standards for VR contracted providers, clarify program deliverables, and revise the notice of worksite placement to one week. |
| 05/15/2019 | Chapter 2: Wage Services for VR Participants in Paid Work Experience | Revised | Updated to clarify the role of the VR counselor in the I-9 completion process. |
| 03/01/2019 | Chapter 3: Student HireAbility Navigator Program | Revised | Updated the email address to which the Student HireAbility Navigator invoice is to sent. |
| 02/11/2019 | Chapter 1: Summer Earn and Learn (SEAL) | Revised | Updated to address the transmission of PII, require advance notice for interpreter or skills trainer services, a participant's worksite placement, and contract amendments, set August 31 as the work experience assignment end date, and to clarify that payment for the Worksite Monitoring deliverable is intended to be one, flat-fee payment for each participant. |
| 01/30/2019 | Chapter 2: Wage Services for VR Participants in Paid Work Experience | Revised | Updated to clarify that students who are potentially eligible may participate in Paid Work Experience. |
| 09/19/2018 | Chapter 2: Wage Services for VR Participants in Paid Work Experience | Revised | Updated to align content related to worksite or business exclusions, worksite monitoring responsibilities, and deliverables for paid work experience services. Added Worksite Agreement form. |
| 09/19/2018 | Chapter 3: Student HireAbility Navigator Program | Revised | Updated to allow flexibility in the due date of the three-year action plan. Added templates for Initial and Quarterly reports. |