Located in:
- Employment and Training Programs Under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (Programs Authorized Under Section 6(d)(4) of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2015(d)(4)))
- a. General Requirements [27]
The State agency must prepare and submit an Employment and Training (E&T) Plan to its appropriate Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) Regional Office. The E&T Plan must be available for public inspection at the State agency headquarters. A State agency may include its plan for the SNAP E&T program in a Combined Plan under WIOA but will require FNS approval prior to implementation and must continue to make a copy of the plan available for public inspection. If a State includes SNAP E&T in a Combined Plan under WIOA, the State agency will detail the following for each year covered by the Combined Plan:
[27] 7 CFR § 273.7(c)(6)
- a. General Requirements [27]
a. 6. The geographic areas covered and not covered by the E&T Plan and why, and the type and location of services to be offered;
Current Narrative:
| Arkansas will begin FY 20 with 6 contractors serving all 75 counties and 1 contractor that initiated Phase Ill of SNAP Works for a total of 6 contractors. Arkansas is requesting to participate as a Pledge State in FY 2020 and will use additional 100% Pledge funds as outlined in the plan. Arkansas will pledge to offer a qualifying activity to every ABA SNAP recipient residing in the State of Arkansas. Adult Education Section of the Arkansas Division of Workforce Services will serve 74 counties. The Adult Education Section of the Arkansas Division of Workforce Services will continue to operate a pilot project to provide virtual case management services to 10 rural counties that we have identified as desert counties with low numbers of ABAWDs where a provider could not operate under the 50/50 funding model because of the locality and small caseload numbers. DHS will continue to use 100% funds in the amount of $175,000 to continue operating our virtual E&T Project in 13 counties which are Woodruff, Prairie, Cleburne, Perry, Dallas, Ouachita, Calhoun, Little River, Howard, Pike, Montgomery, Scott, and Logan. In addition to these counties, virtual case management will also include Grant, Madison, Poinsett, Searcy, and Sharp counties (for a total of 18 counties). The state intends to expand so that virtual case management is an additional option where physical case management is available in order to give ABAWDS more options to participate. The DHS County Offices in those counties will provide an office and computer equipment with a camera so that the client can participate in one on one virtual case management with the provider. |