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Colorado State Plan Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Effective July 1, 2018

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(6) Refundable Tax Credits. The Colorado Earned Income Tax Credit and the Child Care Tax Credit.

(7) Education Expenditures from the Colorado Preschool Program. This program provides funding to Colorado schools in an effort to establish quality early childhood education programs, strengthen families, and support them as participants in their child’s education. School districts conduct an individualized educational program for the child with family involvement.

(8) Nurse Home Visitor Program. This program consists of nurse home visitors who work with women and their families in their homes during pregnancy, and through the first two years of the child’s life. The program provides regular visits with new or at-risk mothers to improve parenting skills and child wellbeing and to link mothers to needed social services. This is accomplished through regular home visiting sessions through the child’s second birthday.

(9) Pro-family healthy marriage and responsible fatherhood activities enumerated in part IV-A of the Act. Colorado is aware that the pro-family MOE spending provision pertains only to the allowable non-assistance healthy marriage and responsible fatherhood activities enumerated in sections 403(a)(2)(A)(iii) and section 403(a)(2)(C)(ii) of the Act, and listed in TANF-ACF-PI-2008-10, e.g., not public education activities.

(10) Non-profit and private spending. Colorado receives spending information from non-profits, foundations, and other charitable organizations on TANF eligible families. The services provided fall mainly into the categories of family stability, short term housing assistance, educational and youth development activities, job readiness and transportation.

Transfer of funds. In accordance with federal law, Colorado reserves the right to transfer up to the federal maximum levels of the State Financial Assistance Grant (SFAG) to the childcare block grant and to Title XX. These transfers are made primarily at the county level, but may also be made at the State level as appropriate.

Certifications and Assurances

Pursuant to PRWORA, Colorado’s chief executive officer makes the following certifications: (1) Colorado operates a child support services program;

(2) Colorado operates a foster care and adoption assistance program;