734-4          SELF-INITIATED TRAINING ( SIT Self Initiated Training )

During Employability Assessment, the case worker may discover a participant already takes part in training or higher education they initiated on their own.  Typically SIT Self Initiated Training programs involve college or other post secondary type of education the participant enrolled in prior to selection for a work program.  Sometimes partner agencies, or the old JOBS program, developed SIT Self Initiated Training programs.  Based on a current assessment of the participant's employability, and if the SIT Self Initiated Training meets all the criteria listed in this chapter, the case worker may approve it as training activity.

If a partner agency helped establish the SIT Self Initiated Training , then compare their employability assessment and training plan with the criteria.  Also, determine the partner's willingness to cover the SIT Self Initiated Training 's costs.  

Participants may continue to pursue unapproved training or education, but must make themselves available to take part in work activities assigned on their Plan.  Mandatory participants risk a penalty if they refuse to drop or modify personal activities that interfere with work activities assigned on their Plan.