9.6 Education Requirements
ISSUE DATE: 09/2020
The focus in MFIP for teen parents is on education.
The specific education requirements differ according to the participant’s age and education status.
Scenarios
| Requirements
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Minor parents without a high school diploma
| Must attend 1 of the following:
High School to get a diploma or GED.
Educational programs to help them get a GED.
(They may combine education with other activities, if those activities do not interfere with their school completion.)
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18- and 19-year old parents without a high school diploma or GED | Can choose between the education option or the work option.
The focus of the education option: 9.9 (Options for 18- & 19-Year Old Parents), getting a high school diploma or GED.
The focus of the work option: 9.9 (Options for 18- & 19-Year Old Parents), immediate employment.
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18- and 19-year old parents who get their high school diploma or GED
| Must participate in employment services and are subject to all the requirements for other adult participants.
Post-secondary education may still be a part of their employment plan. See 13.15 (Post-Secondary Training and Education).
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Parents who turn 20 without a high school diploma
| Must participate in employment services and are subject to all the requirements for other adult participants.
Adult Basic Education may still be a part of their employment plan. See 13.9 (Adult Education).
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Minor parents and 18- and 19-year-old parents
| May pursue their education through an online school under certain conditions. See 9.18 (Online & Distance Education).
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To meet education requirements the participant must:
· Be enrolled in a high school or other secondary educational program.· Meet the school or program’s attendance requirements.· Teen parents need to attend school for as many hours as possible and as available through the school.· They are in compliance when the school is not in regular session, such as during holiday and summer breaks, but they may not count in the work participation rate during those breaks.· See instructions on how to handle these breaks in Workforce One at 9.24 (Documenting/Tracking Education Activities).· Meeting attendance requirements is meeting participation requirements.· Child care assistance will be authorized based on actual expected hours of attendance and travel time.
The only reasons a minor parent does not have to attend school:
· No appropriate educational program is available.· Transportation to attend school is not available.· Appropriate child care services are not available.· The participant is ill or incapacitated seriously enough to prevent school attendance.· The participant is needed in the home to care for someone who is ill and incapacitated.· This automatically includes a participant’s baby younger than 6 weeks old.
If no appropriate education option is available:
For Minor Parents.
| The county or tribe must refer the participant to minor parent social services.
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For 18 and 19 year old parents.
| The employment counselor should develop an employment plan under the work option. See 9.9 (Options for 18- & 19-Year Old Parents).
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Child care assistance continues for teen parents who leave MFIP.
· Teen parents of any age will qualify for Transition Year child care if the employment plan already includes education. See 16 (Child Care).
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