Policy Chapters and Sections

Required Core Services

Chapter: 4 Section: 1
Effective Date: 11/30/2007
Expiration Date: Continuing
Published Date: 7/21/2021 1:50:43 PM
Status: Rescinded
Version: 1

Tags: Local Plan, Monitoring/Oversight, One-Stop, Illinois workNet, One-Stop, One-Stop

The core services required to be provided include (See the Attachments tab for the Services Matrix for Comprehensive Illinois workNet Centers in Illinois for the partner program that provides each of the services):

  1. Determinations of whether the individuals are eligible to receive assistance under WIOA Title IB;
  2. The information and other services available through the local Illinois workNet through:
    1. Outreach;
    2. Intake (which may include worker profiling); and
    3. Orientation.
  3. Initial assessment of the following:
    1. Skill levels;
    2. Aptitudes;
    3. Abilities; and
    4. Supportive service needs.
  4. Employment assistance including:
    1. Job search;
    2. Placement assistance; and
    3. Where appropriate, career counseling.
  5. Provision of accurate employment statistics information relating to the local, regional, and national labor market areas, including:
    1. Job vacancy listings in such labor market areas;
    2. Information on job skills necessary to obtain the jobs described in clause (a); and
    3. Information relating to local occupations in demand and the earnings and skill requirements for such occupations.
  6. Provision of performance information and program cost information for the following:
    1. Eligible providers of training services;
    2. Eligible providers of youth activities;
    3. Providers of adult education described in Title II;
    4. Providers of postsecondary vocational education activities and vocational education activities available to school dropouts; and
    5. Providers of vocational rehabilitation program activities.
  7. Provision of information regarding how the local area is performing on the local performance measures and any additional performance information with respect to Illinois workNet in the local area.
  8. Provision of accurate information relating to the availability of and referral to supportive services, including (but not limited to):
    1. Child care; and
    2. Transportation.
  9. Provision of information regarding filing claims for unemployment compensation.
  10. Assistance in establishing eligibility for:
    1. Welfare-to-Work activities; and
    2. Programs of financial aid assistance for training and education programs that are not funded under this Act and are available in the local area.
  11. Follow-up services, including (but not limited to):
    1. Counseling regarding the workplace, for participants in workforce investment activities authorized under this subtitle who are placed in unsubsidized employment, for not less than twelve (12) months after the first day of the employment, as appropriate.