(a) The purpose of community service is to improve the employability of individuals who cannot find unsubsidized full-time employment. (b) Community service shall: (1) 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 (2) be supervised on an ongoing basis at least once each day in which the individual is scheduled to participate in the community service. (c) The Department may refer an individual to community service for work activity if: (1) private sector employment is not available; (2) the maximum community service placement for the individual does not exceed 90 days in a 3-year period; (3) the Department offers to the individual at least three work activity options that shall include: (i) subject to subsection (d) of this section, only one community service option; and (ii) at least one work activity option or a program funded by the federal Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act; (4) the individual chooses the community service for work activity; (5) the Department informs the individual that the individual may subsequently change to different work activity; (6) the community service provides skills that match the individual's personal, career, and family goals to support economic mobility; and (7) when making appropriate community service assignments, the Department has considered the individual's prior training, experience, and skills. (d) If the Department offers community service as work activity, the Department may not offer work experience as work activity. (e) 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.
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