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MFIP Employment Services Manual

MFIP Employment Services Manual


7.27 Goals

ISSUE DATE: 09/2020

The primary goal for the participant is employment.

Other goals may be included in the plan to fit the participant’s circumstances or to incorporate the participant’s personal goals.

A well written employment plan:

  • · Identifies the participant's self-support and employment goals.
  • · Breaks those sub-goals into smaller objectives.
  • · Lists the steps the participant must take to achieve the goals in the shortest time reasonably possible.
  • · Specifies what the participant will do and what the employment counselor will do, using clear deadlines or target dates.


    • Goals written in the employment plan should be:

  • · Specific: Explain what the participant wants to achieve, how and why.
  • · Measurable: Describe the goal in such a way that it will be clear when the goal has been reached.
  • · Realistic: The goal must be within the participant’s ability and must not need more resources than the participant has or than the Employment services agency can provide.


    • The main goal of the employment plan may or may not change when the plan is updated.

    Including short-term goals in different versions of the employment can help gauge progress.

    For goals for victims of family violence, see 8.24 (Employment Plans & Family Violence Waiver).

    For goals in Family Stabilization Services plans, see 17 (Family Stabilization Services).

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