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National Performance Indicator 1.2 – Employment Supports

NPI 1.2: The number of low-income participants for whom barriers to initial or continuous
employment are reduced or eliminated through assistance from Community Action.

Overview: NPI 1.2 collects data on unduplicated low-income participants who achieve outcomes
in employment-support areas who are either:

 Unemployed and seeking earned income,
 Employed and seeking to reduce barriers to maintain earned income, or
 Are employed and seeking increased earned income and/or employment benefits.

Applicable Activities: All initiatives that help participants look for a job, or keep a job, which
can be a result of:

 Free-standing services, or
 Services provided as part of case management, with a goal of self-sufficiency.

List of Employment Support Services in NPI 1.2:

A. Obtaining skills/competencies required for employment
B. Completing ABE/GED and receiving a certificate or diploma
C. Completing a postsecondary education program and receiving a certificate or diploma
D. Enrolling children in before or after school programs
E. Obtaining care for child or other dependent
F. Obtaining access to reliable transportation and/or driver’s license
G. Obtaining health care services for self and/or family member
H. Obtaining and/or maintaining safe and affordable housing
I. Obtaining food assistance
J. Obtaining non-emergency LIHEAP assistance
K. Obtaining non-emergency WAP assistance
L. Obtaining other non-emergency energy assistance

These supporting services often make the difference between success and failure in a low-
income family’s efforts to complete job training or education in preparation for employment, or
to retain a job once it is acquired.

Outcomes of activities may be counted and reported for this indicator if they are viewed by the
agency and program participants as:

o Helping families prepare for or retain employment. These include such outcomes as:

 Finding safe and affordable housing for a family at risk of becoming homeless or
in a housing crisis, which enables the adult(s) to participate in employment or
employment preparation activities

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