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Wisconsin Department of Children and Families Wisconsin Works (W-2) Manual |
The CMD placement is for individuals who have reached their time limit and are no longer eligible for a paid placement. When a participant is denied or declines an extension, the FEP must offer the CMD placement.
The goals of the CMD placement are to:
· Help match the individual to employment;
· Connect the individual and family to services in the community; and
· Reassess on a monthly basis whether the individual is eligible for an extension.
To be eligible for the CMD placement, the participant must meet W-2 financial and nonfinancial eligibility criteria, with the exception of exceeding the 24-month placement time limit or 48-month state lifetime limit.
EXAMPLE: Karl has been a CSJ participant for 18 months. The activities he was assigned to were Life Skills, Job Readiness/Motivation, Mental Health Counseling for his daughter Kassandra, Work Experience, and Employment Search. He started missing activities and after talking with his FEP, he was referred for a formal assessment with a mental health provider. Karl never followed through with that referral. With Karl’s 24th month approaching, the FEP wanted to discuss with him his eligibility for an extension. His FEP attempted to reach him by phone and mail a number of times to discuss an extension, but Karl never responded. In Karl’s 22nd month, he contacted his worker and told her that he was feeling depressed again. The FEP discussed with Karl the fact that he was going to reach his 24-month time limit and that he had not been participating. However, due to the potential depression, the FEP gave Karl a three month extension and scheduled another referral to a mental health provider in addition to work experience and employment search. Karl never followed through on the second referral and only participated sporadically in the assigned activities. The FEP denied eligibility for a subsequent time limit extension due to Karl’s nonparticipation and placed Karl in a CMD to try and assist Karl in finding employment.
Services provided to a CMD participant will depend largely on the reason for the extension denial or the reason the participant declined an extension and the placement the individual was in at the time of the denial or the time the participant declined an extension. Participants who were denied an extension due to nonparticipation would likely be assigned to activities similar to what was assigned while in the subsidized employment position.
FEPs must meet with CMD participants weekly. Every 30 days, the FEP must review the CMD placement. The placement review must be held in a meeting (see 1.4.2.4) with the participant. At this meeting, the FEP must reassess the case. If the individual has consistently participated, the FEP must reassess whether barriers to employment exist. The FEP must also reconsider whether the individual is appropriate for an extension.
A participant in the CMD placement who finds unsubsidized employment may be placed in the CMU placement. FEPs should document this in PIN comments.
History: Release 23-06; Release 22-05; Release 21-09; Release 19-02; Release 12-04.