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are engaged in targeted programs based on need, interest and/or risk factors present in their lives. Targeted programs complement the less structured and recreational programming offered by clubs, ensuring youth have a well-rounded, enriching, and engaging experience. The third strategy is family engagement. Clubs are designed to be welcoming places for family members, including parents, guardians, siblings, and extended family of youth served. Club staff engage Family members on an ongoing basis to learn about their children’s needs and challenges, share ideas and progress, and connect them with resources. This program is TANF funded and meets TANF purposes 1 through 4. TANF funded services meeting TANF purposes 1 or 2 are limited to families whose income is less than 200% of the Federal Poverty Level.

Additional direct grants to the following service providers are part of the state’s efforts to achieve these goals:

▪ Expenditures under the Family Emergency Assistance State Plan, which went into effect July 1995, are authorized solely under prior law, are TANF funded, and impose the following eligibility requirements and service limits:

▪ Eligibility. Abuse, neglect, and abandonment of a child qualify as emergency situations. Similarly, situations resulting in a child being at risk of transfer of custody, an out-of-home placement or an institutional placement qualify as emergencies. In addition, the child must have lived recently with a parent or caretaker. Foster care cases qualify for emergency services. Services and assistance necessary to meet the emergent need are allowable if the assistance is not provided under Title IV-E foster care services or Title XIX Medicaid services.

▪ Allowable Services for TANF Expenditures. The following services are provided to children and families:

o Needs assessment and investigation o Shelter, foster care, kinship care, or group residential care for children o Emergency shelter o Rental assistance (up to $400 per month for two months; also, rent deposit up to $400) o Adaptation of client residence o Emergency utilities (up to $500), home repair (up to $1,000), home furnishings (up to $1,000), clothing (up to $250 per person) o Other goods and services to meet emergent family needs up to $1,000 o Case management, counseling, therapy, in-home intensive family services, parenting education, household management training, family support and development services, child care and respite care, and any other social services necessary to alleviate an emergent situation and maintain a child in the home.

▪ Duration of Services. Emergency services are limited to a maximum of 364 days in a 12-month period.

▪ Family Preservation Services are intensive in-home services offered to families who are in imminent danger of having a child come into the custody of the State and removed from the home unless the family can make the changes necessary to provide the child adequate care and safety. Families must be below 244% of the Federal Poverty Level to qualify for TANF funding for Family Preservation. Services assist the family in identifying and understanding the problems