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STATE OF ARKANSAS TEMPORARY ASSISTANCE FOR NEEDY FAMILIES REVISED 2023 Page 30 of 46 The TANF-funded Community Investment Initiative includes components designed to improve parenting and family functioning through services and support to parents, children, and to families. Additionally, this initiative addresses improving marriage and relationship skills among youth and engaged and married couples. Partnerships are formalized with community and faith-based organizations through the award of TANF-funded contracts on an annual basis. Services offered by providers meet TANF Goal 4, to encourage the formation and maintenance of two-parent families. These community partnerships recognize the importance of both family planning as well as enhanced family functioning. Education and Training on Rape Prevention The Arkansas Commission on Child Abuse, Rape, and Domestic Violence (ACCARDV) of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) and the Arkansas Department of Health (ADH) are authorized to allocate and administer funds for Sexual Violence Prevention and Education through a cooperative agreement with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). These funds strengthen sexual violence prevention and education efforts through the provision of grants to community-based organizations to provide comprehensive sexual violence primary prevention aimed at preventing the initial occurrence of sexual violence. Programs funded across the state solicit the assistance of community organizations to provide sexual violence prevention and education to youth, at-risk youth, and adults. These programs are designed to change attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors that allow sexual violence to occur. Educational programs are available to specific populations, including males, Hispanics, African Americans, and persons with disabilities. Statutory Rape Prevention and Education In Arkansas, a person commits rape if he or she engages in Sexual Intercourse or Deviate Sexual activity with another person: 1. By forcible compulsion; or 2. Who is incapable of consent because he or she is physically helpless, mentally defective, or mentally incapacitated; or 3. Who is less than 14 years of age; or actor is more than 3 years older