Job retention (or 90 days post-employment).Educational programs, including basic skills and English language learning, directly linked to employment.Work experience (e.g., on-the-job training, apprenticeships).Receiving SNAP benefits in the month they participate in component (except job retention).Assessment of employment and training needs/interests states select one or more to offer.SNAP E&T services are offered by states or state partners (colleges, community-based organizations, American job centers contracted/engaged by state).States must describe services in an annual SNAP E&T Plan that is submitted to the USDA.SNAP E&T is a package of services that includes participant assessment, employment and training activities, and supportive services.Those savings translate into expanded services and offerings and more dollars toward your organization’s mission.įor the greater community, bringing additional SNAP E&T funding to Southeast Louisiana will strengthen our region’s economy by building a more engaged and skilled workforce while minimizing the pressures on social services. United Way of Southeast Louisiana facilitates the return of SNAP E&T funding for community and faith-based organizations providing services in the following areas:Ĭontracting with United Way increases your organizational capacity, saving you essential funding and time that is required to process SNAP E&T funding on your own. The program provides reimbursement funding for a package of services that includes participant assessment, employment and training activities, and support services. The SNAP E&T program helps SNAP households gain skills, training, work, or experience that will increase self-sufficiency. To expand our workforce development investments and community-strengthening efforts, United Way serves as a prime contractor for the Louisiana Department of Children and Family Services to administer the reimbursement of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Employment and Training funding to local nonprofit partners.
We focus on two main areas aimed at strengthening our community’s economic growth: building a more engaged and skilled workforce and minimizing the pressures on health care and social services.
UWSELA’s Blueprint for Prosperity, our long-term plan to move individuals out of poverty, identifies specific indicators that will maximize employment and economic achievement, all to increase the productive capacity of our regional economy. To solve big problems, like poverty, we need lasting solutions. United Way of Southeast Louisiana’s mission is to eradicate poverty in Southeast Louisiana.
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