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STATE OF CONNECTICUT TEMPORARY ASSISTANCE FOR NEEDY FAMILIES (TANF) STATE PLAN 2024-2026

Effective Date: 10/1/23 – 9/30/26 ☐ Initial Submission Date: 12/31/2023 ☒ Revision Date: 04/15/2024 Page: 21

Extended Day Treatment Program – site-based, before or after school, treatment and support service for children and youth with behavioral health needs who have returned to their homes from out-of-home care or are at risk of placement due to mental health issues or emotional disturbance. Services are provided daily before and after school, with extended daily service on days or weeks in which school is not in session. TANF Purpose #3.

Intimate Partner Violence – Family Assessment Intervention Response (IPV-FAIR) - service is to establish a comprehensive response to intimate partner violence that offers meaningful and sustainable help to families that is safe, respectful, culturally relevant, and responsive to the unique strengths and concerns of the family. This service provides a supportive service array of assessments, interventions, and linkages to services to address the needs of families impacted by intimate partner violence. The service will respond to both caregivers and the children. Safety planning will be at the center of the service provision.

Intensive Family Preservation – short-term, intensive, in-home service designed to intervene quickly in order to reduce the risk of out of home placement and/or abuse and/or neglect. Services are provided to families 24 hours per day, seven days a week, with a minimum of 2 home visits per week for to 12 weeks.

Intensive Home-Based Services – Multidimensional Family Therapy (MDFT) – provides intensive home-based clinical interventions for children, ages 11 to 18, with significant behavioral health service needs who are at imminent risk of removal from their home or who are returning home from a residential level of care. After a comprehensive evaluation, a strength-based Individualized Service Plan is developed to include goals, interventions, services and supports that address the issues and problems threatening the maintenance of the child in the home or the return of the child to the home.

Investigations – DCF staff provide investigations of reports of child abuse and neglect, to prevent or eliminate the need for removal of children from their homes in cases where a removal has not occurred, but such a removal is a reasonable possibility in the absence of preventive services. Investigations had been part of the state’s Emergency Assistance program in effect on September 30, 1995.

Therapeutic Child Care - This service offers a range of support services for children in a licensed childcare facility, designed for infants, toddlers, and pre-school age children who have behavioral health and/or developmental needs. This service is claimed under TANF purpose 3.

Parenting Support Program – in-home, evidence-based program that provides parenting education services.

Youth Services Bureau – DCF grants funds to Youth Service Bureaus to promote positive youth involvement and to support at-risk youth in their communities by addressing issues related to social development, mental health, and physical well-being, teen pregnancy prevention, diversion from juvenile justice services. The bureaus provide counseling on at-risk behaviors such as out-