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Services provides additional activities geared toward overcoming barriers to employment. The Work Services approach is centered on the Employability Assessment (EA) and an FSSP. All families with a needy adult must participate in self-sufficiency planning. The FSSP sets out the steps necessary for the family to follow to achieve financial independence and identifies milestones and goals along the way. The Division has recognized that some adults are not successful at going to work and increasing their self-sufficiency through labor market work search. To help these families, the Division has adopted a holistic approach to supporting the whole family to help those with multiple life complexities be successful in employment and increasing their self-sufficiency. These ATAP families who experience a variety of circumstances and challenges may engage in a continuum of services for households. These circumstances and challenges include the following examples: • Co-enrollment with multiple State of Alaka Department and/or community agencies, including but not limited to the Alaska Office of Children’s Services, or the Alaska Divisions of Juvenile Justice and Behavioral Health; • Multiple attempts to find employment through traditional work search activities without success in getting a job; • Inability to maintain or advance in employment; • long term medical issues that have limited their participation in work and self- sufficiency activities; • Disabled family members who rely on an adult in the home for their daily care; and • Efforts being made to rejoin the workforce after a prolonged medical or mental health challenge. Because of Alaska’s geographic size and economic diversity, the Division supports the use of a variety of activities including community and business work experience as an acceptable primary work activity for individuals who need to improve their skills and employability. The Division maintains strong partnerships and contracts with local governments, Native organizations, non-profit and for-profit organizations. These community-based organizations and businesses are in the best position to deliver training, job preparation, job readiness, and education services, as well as to develop job opportunities tailored to each region’s economic characteristics. Local partnerships are especially important for effective community and business work experience activities that must be locally established and monitored. In remote Alaska communities with limited employment opportunities, traditional and culturally appropriate subsistence activities are pursued. Subsistence activities are defined as the non-commercial, customary, and traditional Alaska TANF State Plan P lan Effective December 31, 2025 12 | P a g e