SNAP Works Program

Georgia SNAP Employment & Training (E&T) Program

Georgia’s SNAP Employment & Training Program is known as the SNAP Works Program.

This program is voluntary, with the intent of providing participants with opportunities and resources to gain skills to improve their employment prospects and reduce reliance on public assistance programs.

The SNAP Works Program seeks to provide SNAP recipients with short-term industry driven training, skills, education, tools, participant support services, and access to career pathways that lead to sustainable jobs.

Participants in the SNAP Works Program include Abled-Bodied Without Dependents (ABAWDs), single parents, families, senior citizens, the homeless, students, veterans, returning citizens (ex-offenders), the underemployed, the unemployed, and individuals with disabilities.

The SNAP Works Program Goals

One of the goals of the SNAP Works Program is to assist SNAP recipients who are unemployed or underemployed in securing employment that helps them to become self-sufficient, reducing their reliance on SNAP. The program offers training opportunities in various fields, including healthcare, manufacturing, IT, and welding. Success is measured by the program's ability to help Georgia families gain the skills, training, and work experience necessary to build lives that are not reliant on public assistance programs.

SNAP Works Program Activities

Georgia’s SNAP Works Program offers supervised job search assistance, work-readiness training, adult basic education, English Language Acquisition (ESL), vocational training, work experience, and job retention through partnerships with community-based organizations and educational institutions.

Support Services

SNAP Works participants may receive participant support services, which may include transportation assistance, required textbooks, uniforms, and other services. These funds are available for reasonable and necessary support needed for participation in an approved and enrolled SNAP E&T component.

If you are interested in volunteering to participate in the SNAP Works Program, please call 1-877-423-4746 for more information.

Provider Information

SNAP Works collaborates with third-party providers to create opportunities for participants. These organizations share SNAP E&T's mission to help individuals gain the skills, training, and work experience necessary to secure gainful employment. The providers are already involved with SNAP recipients and have experience connecting participants with the job market and employers.

Potential providers

If you are interested in becoming a provider for the SNAP Works program, please contact the SNAP Works program at [email protected].

iWORC

The Interagency Workforce Opportunities Resource Committee (iWORC) is a SNAP Employment and Training (E&T) initiative created by the Division of Family & Children Services (DFCS) for workforce development programs to do the following:

Improve employment and training service delivery across Georgia
Collaborate with organizations to provide services to low-income citizens
Work in partnership internally to share participant engagement methodologies

Initially, iWORC was only a collaboration between DFCS and the Department of Human Services (DHS). However, we quickly learned that there were gaps in services with programs statewide. As a result, the committee decided to add other programs and organizations to ensure that steps were being taken to bridge gaps in services and to ensure collaboration of program information is consistently shared statewide.

The ultimate goal of the committee is to bring similar organizations together to discuss program updates, strategize ways to maximize services and assist Georgians in having less reliance on any public assistance program.

If your organization is interested in joining the iWORC committee, please email [email protected] to express your interest.

iWORC Flyer (PDF, 390.88 KB)