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BRIDGES ELIGIBILITY MANUAL STATE OF MICHIGAN DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES

for assistance with these services in order to participate in orientation requirements. Assistance will continue until local PATH program policies allow them to provide transportation or until the specialist is able to approve Child Development and Care (CDC) services. Use the DHS-619, Jobs & Self- Sufficiency Survey, to evaluate client need for services. • Completing a compliance activity assigned by MDHHS. • Participating in a PATH program activity when both MDHHS and PATH agree that it is in the client’s best interest to have MDHHS make the DSS payment. MDHHS and PATH program staff should locally determine when and under what circumstances this should occur. MDHHS and PATH may collaborate to jointly fund services to clients when necessary. • Dependent children aged 16 to 18 who are full-time students in elementary or high school by policy exception. • Teen parents who are attending high school full- time. • Participants in Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA), Job Corps or Americorps who are not participating in a PATH approved education or training program but are meeting work participation requirements. CDC, MA Family, FAP Family Employment Support Services are available only if all these apply: • All other appropriate resources have been considered. The family is applying for or receiving CDC, MA Family or FAP. • The CDC, MA Family or FAP recipient did not receive DSS for more than four consecutive months. Example: Client requests ongoing transportation funds to attend a specialist assigned FSS activity each week for five months. The specialist can approve transportation funds to support this activity for only four months in a row when the client is not active FIP. The above example would also be true if the group requested any DSS service or combination of services each month for four months in a row. Example: The specialist approves a single request for a vehicle repair, vehicle insurance and payment of a towing bill for one client in May. May counts as one month. Count months, not services.