(A) The director of job and family services shall adopt rules that are necessary to implement the comprehensive case management and employment program, including rules that do all of the following:

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(1) Provide for the program to do both of the following:

(a) Help a work-eligible individual satisfy the work requirements of section 407 of the “Social Security Act,” 42 U.S.C. § 607;

(b) Help an Ohio works first participant who participates in the program do both of the following:

(i) Satisfy other Ohio works first requirements, including requirements included in the participant’s self-sufficiency contract entered into under section 5107.14 of the Revised Code;

(ii) Obtain assistance or services the participant needs according to an assessment conducted under section 5107.70 of the Revised Code.

(2) For the purpose of section 5116.11 of the Revised Code, establish procedures for both of the following:

(a) Assessing the employment and training needs of individuals participating in the comprehensive case management and employment program;

(b) Creating, reviewing, revising, and terminating individual opportunity plans.

(3) For the purpose of section 5116.20 of the Revised Code, establish procedures, including procedures regarding timing, for a local workforce development board to decide whether to authorize the use of its youth workforce investment activity funds for the comprehensive case management and employment program;

(4) Establish requirements for the plans required by division (A)(1) of section 5116.23 of the Revised Code;

(5) For the purpose of division (A)(3) of section 5116.23 of the Revised Code, establish procedures for a lead agency to partner with the other local participating agency and subcontractors.

(B) For the purposes of divisions (C) and (F) of section 5116.10 of the Revised Code, the rules adopted under this section may do either or both of the following:

(1) Specify one or more additional mandatory participation groups that are required to participate in the comprehensive case management and employment program;

(2) Specify one or more additional voluntary participation groups that may volunteer to participate in the program.

(C) The rules adopted under this section shall be consistent with all of the following:

(1) The Title IV-A state plan prepared under section 5101.80 of the Revised Code, amendments to the plan, and any waivers regarding the plan granted by the United States secretary of health and human services;

(2) The combined state plan authorized by section 103 of the “Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act,” 29 U.S.C. § 3113, amendments to the plan, and any waivers regarding the plan granted by the United States secretary of labor.

(D) The rules adopted under division (A)(1)(a) of this section may deviate from Chapter 5107 of the Revised Code.