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Iowa’s TANF State Plan
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Maintenance of effort funds under a Separate State Program are used to fund the costs related to an excluded parent's participation in PROMISE JOBS when the excluded parent is a citizen or qualified alien and to fund the costs of PROMISE JOBS participation for FIP for Battered Aliens recipients. Aliens who are not qualified aliens as defined at 8 USC 1641 are not eligible for PROMISE JOBS.
The FIA requires each FIA-responsible person to participate in one or more of the following activities after orientation and assessment are completed:
Full-time or part-time employment.
Full-time employment means 30 hours or more per week or 129 hours or more per month. Part-time employment means anything less than this.
Job-seeking skills training and group or individual job search.
This activity includes but is not limited to: self-esteem building; goal attainment planning; resume development; grooming; letters of application and follow-up letters; job application completion; job retention skills; motivational exercises; identifying and eliminating employment barriers; positive impressions and self-marketing; finding job leads; obtaining interviews; use of telephones; interviewing skills development; and practice interviewing.
Classroom training.
This activity includes but is not limited to: high school completion or equivalent; adult basic education; English as a second language; post-secondary education not leading to a degree beyond a bachelor’s degree; and any other academic or vocational training course of study that enables the participant to complete high school; improve one’s ability to read and speak English; or prepares the individual for a specific professional or vocational area of employment.
Family development programs.
Services under this activity are designed to promote, empower, and nurture the family to self-sufficiency and healthy reintegration into the community.
Work experience placement.
Work experience combines placement at work sites that provide participants with work experience and on-the-job-training while providing services that are of direct benefit to the community, with job search activities.
On-the-job training.
Under this component a participant is hired by a private or public employer, and while engaged in productive work, receives training that provides knowledge or skills essential to the full and adequate performance of that job.
Unpaid community service.