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461-190-0310    Effective 01/01/07
Limits to OFSET Components and Activities

In the Food Stamp OFSET program:

  1. The case plan (see OAR 461-001-0020) may not require more than 120 hours of activities each month.

  2. The client may not be required to participate in only job search (see OAR 461-001-0020) activities for more than eight weeks a year.

Stat. Auth.: ORS 411.816
Stats. Implemented: ORS 411.816

461-190-0310    Effective: 10/01/02
OFSET Components and Activities

This rule contains the definitions of the Food Stamp OFSET program:

  1. Assessment: An activity that involves gathering information to identify a client's strengths, interests, family circumstances, status in the OFSET program, goals, and vocational aptitudes and preferences and to mutually determine an employment goal, the level of the client's participation in the OFSET program, and which support services are needed to be able to participate in the components and activities

  2. Basic education: A component intended to ensure functional literacy for all OFSET clients. Basic education activities are high school attendance, English as a second language (ESL) instruction, adult basic education (ABE) instruction, and services that result in obtaining a general equivalency diploma (GED).

  3. Case plan: The case plan (also called a personal plan or personal development plan) is a written outline, developed together by the client and case manager, with input from partners as appropriate, listing activities for the client. The components and activities are identified during the assessment and are intended to reduce the effect of barriers to the client's self-sufficiency, employment, job retention and wage enhancement. The case plan also identifies the support services the Department will make available to help the client complete the plan. The case plan cannot require more than 120 hours of activities each month.

  4. English as a second language (ESL): An activity in the basic education component. ESL classes are designed to give clients with limited English proficiency better working skills in the language.

  5. Job search: A component that focuses on clients looking for and obtaining employment. The client may not be required to participate in only job search activities for more than eight weeks a year.

  6. Job skills training: A component that includes training designed to improve skills in locating and competing for employment in the local labor market and may include writing resumes and receiving instruction in interviewing skills.

  7. JOBS Plus program (JOBS Plus): A component that provides clients with on-the-job training and pays their benefits as wages.

  8. Other employment-related activities: A component composed of other activities related to employment, including:

    1. Participation in a program of the Workforce Investment Act;

    2. A program authorized by section 236 of the Trade Act of 1974 (19 U.S.C 2296)

    3. Sheltered work or supported work: A component that gives clients intensive staff support, skill training, intervention and counseling that will enable them to function independently at work.

    4. Vocational training: A component designed to provide classroom training in vocational and technical skills or equivalent knowledge and abilities in a specific job area. Examples are Project Independence, Women in Transition and Nurses Aid certification.

    5. Work search agreement: See case plan, above in this rule.

Stat. Auth.: ORS 411.816
Stats. Implemented: ORS 411.816

461-190-0310    Effective: 9/01/01
OFSET Components and Activities

This rule contains the definitions of the Food Stamp OFSET program:

  1. Assessment: An activity that involves gathering information to identify a client's strengths, interests, family circumstances, status in the OFSET program, goals, and vocational aptitudes and preferences and to mutually determine an employment goal, the level of the client's participation in the OFSET program, and which support services are needed to be able to participate in the components and activities

  2. Basic education: A component intended to ensure functional literacy for all OFSET clients. Basic education activities are high school attendance, English as a second language (ESL) instruction, adult basic education (ABE) instruction, and services that result in obtaining a general equivalency diploma (GED).

  3. Case plan: The case plan (also called a personal plan or personal development plan) is a written outline, developed together by the client and case manager, with input from partners as appropriate, listing activities for the client. The components and activities are identified during the assessment and are intended to reduce the effect of barriers to the client's self-sufficiency, employment, job retention and wage enhancement. The case plan also identifies the support services the Division will make available to help the client complete the plan. The case plan cannot require more than 120 hours of activities each month.

  4. English as a second language (ESL): An activity in the basic education component. ESL classes are designed to give clients with limited English proficiency better working skills in the language.

  5. Job search: A component that focuses on clients looking for and obtaining employment. The client may not be required to participate in only job search activities for more than 20 weeks a year.

  6. Job skills training: A component that includes training designed to improve skills in locating and competing for employment in the local labor market and may include writing resumes and receiving instruction in interviewing skills.

  7. JOBS Plus program (JOBS Plus): A component that provides clients with on-the-job training and pays their benefits as wages.

  8. Other employment-related activities: A component composed of other activities related to employment, including:

    1. Participation in a program of the Workforce Investment Act or the Job Training Partnership Act;

    2. A program authorized by section 236 of the Trade Act of 1974 (19 U.S.C 2296)

    3. Sheltered work or supported work: A component that gives clients intensive staff support, skill training, intervention and counseling that will enable them to function independently at work.

    4. Vocational training: A component designed to provide classroom training in vocational and technical skills or equivalent knowledge and abilities in a specific job area. Examples are Project Independence, Women in Transition and Nurses Aid certification.

    5. Work experience: A component in which the client works without pay at a job site to develop good work habits and basic vocational skills that enhance the likelihood the client will become employed. Work experience is available through private for-profit businesses, nonprofit organizations or public agencies. Placement in a specific work experience assignment cannot have the effect of replacing an individual who is not participating in an employment program.

    6. Workfare: a component available only to ABAWDs ( see OAR 461-190-0600).

    7. Work search agreement:  See case plan, above in this rule.

Stat. Auth.: ORS 411.816
Stats. Implemented: ORS 411.816

461-190-0310    Effective 10/01/00
OFSET Components and Activities

This rule contains the definitions of the Food Stamp OFSET program:

  1. Assessment: An activity that involves gathering information to identify a client's strengths, interests, family circumstances, status in the OFSET program, goals, and vocational aptitudes and preferences and to mutually determine an employment goal, the level of the client's participation in the OFSET program, and which support services are needed to be able to participate in the components and activities

  2. Basic education: A component intended to ensure functional literacy for all OFSET clients. Basic education activities are high school attendance, English as a second language (ESL) instruction, adult basic education (ABE) instruction, and services that result in obtaining a general equivalency diploma (GED).

  3. Case plan: The case plan is a written outline, developed together by the client and case manager, with input from partners as appropriate, listing activities for the client. The components and activities are identified during the assessment and are intended to reduce the effect of barriers to the client's self-sufficiency, employment, job retention and wage enhancement. The case plan also identifies the support services Division will make available to help the client complete the plan. The case plan cannot require more than 120 hours of activities each month.

  4. English as a second language (ESL): An activity in the basic education component. ESL classes are designed to give clients with limited English proficiency better working skills in the language.

  5. Job search: A component that focuses on clients looking for and obtaining employment. The client may not be required to participate in only job search activities for more than 20 weeks a year.

  6. Job skills training: A component that includes training designed to improve skills in locating and competing for employment in the local labor market and may include writing resumes and receiving instruction in interviewing skills.

  7. JOBS Plus program (JOBS Plus): A component that provides clients with on-the-job training and pays their benefits as wages.

  8. Other employment-related activities: A component composed of other activities related to employment, including:

    1. Participation in a program of the Workforce Investment Act or the Job Training Partnership Act;

    2. A program authorized by section 236 of the Trade Act of 1974 (19 USC 2296)

    3. Sheltered work or supported work: A component that gives clients intensive staff support, skill training, intervention and counseling that will enable them to function independently at work.

    4. Vocational training: A component designed to provide classroom training in vocational and technical skills or equivalent knowledge and abilities in a specific job area. Examples are Project Independence, Women in Transition and Nurses Aid certification.

    5. Work experience: A component in which the client works without pay at a job site to develop good work habits and basic vocational skills that enhance the likelihood the client will become employed. Work experience is available through private for-profit businesses, nonprofit organizations or public agencies. Placement in a specific work experience assignment cannot have the effect of replacing an individual who is not participating in an employment program.

    6. Workfare: a component available only to ABAWDs (see OAR 461-190-0600).

    7. Work search agreement: See case plan, above in this rule.

Stat. Auth.: ORS 411.816
Stats. Implemented: ORS 411.816

461-190-0310    Effective 10/2/98
OFSET Participant Requirements

  1. Clients who are required by the rules in division 130 to register for the OFSET program must complete a work search assessment and work search agreement and must comply with the terms of the agreement.

  2. The work search assessment consists of a review by the Division and the client of the client's recent employment history for the purpose of developing the work search agreement.

  3. The work search agreement identifies the employment-related and other activities the client must complete, including independent job search, job-search training, other employment-related activities, and continuous job search.

Stat. Auth.: ORS 411.060, 411.816
Stats. Implemented: ORS 411.060