                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

PARTICIPATION IN VIEW; COORDINATED SERVICES (§ 63.2-610)

A. In administering VIEW, the Department shall ensure that local departments
provide delivery and coordination of all services through intensive case
management. VIEW participants shall be referred to a case manager. The case
manager shall fully explain VIEW to the participant and shall provide the
participant with written materials explaining VIEW.

B. The Department shall assist local departments in improving the delivery of
services, including intensive case management, through the utilization of
public, private and nonprofit organizations, to the extent permissible under
federal law.

C. The Department shall be responsible for the coordination of the intensive
case management. Job finding and job matching leading to independent employment
shall be facilitated by the Virginia Employment Commission and the Department of
Small Business and Supplier Diversity.

D. The Secretary of Health and Human Resources, assisted by the Secretary of
Commerce and Trade, shall prepare and maintain an annual plan for coordinating
and integrating all appropriate services in order to promote successful
outcomes. The plan shall encourage the use of local and regional service
providers and permit a variety of methods of providing services. Emphasis shall
be placed on coordinating and integrating career counseling, job development,
job training and skills, job placement, and academic and technical education.
Public and private institutions of higher education and other agencies which
offer similar or related services shall be invited to participate as fully as
possible in developing, implementing and updating the annual coordination plan.

E. The Secretary of Health and Human Resources shall:

   1. Increase public awareness of the federal earned income credit and encourage
   families who may be eligible to apply for this tax credit;

   2. Pursue aggressive child-support initiatives as established by the General
   Assembly;

   3. Work with community providers to develop adoption, education, family
   planning, marriage, parenting, and training options for Program participants;

   4. Increase public awareness of the tax advantages of relocating one&#8217;s
   residence in order to secure employment;

   5. Provide leadership for the development of community work experience
   opportunities in VIEW;

   6. Develop strategies to educate, assist and stimulate employers to hire
   participants and to provide community work experience opportunities, in
   consultation with representatives of employers and relevant public and private
   agencies on the state and local level; and

   7. Provide technical assistance to local departments to assist them in working
   with employers in the community to develop job and community work experience
   opportunities for participants.

HISTORY: 1994, cc. 858, 951, § 63.1-133.45; 1995, c. 450; 1996, cc. 589, 599;
1999, cc. 840, 855; 2002, c. 747; 2013, c. 482.