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TANF STATE PLAN STATE OF MICHIGAN DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
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• Domestic Violence Comprehensive Services – Services promote long-term safety and emotional healing to adult victim/survivors and their dependent children. These activities include such activities as providing emergency shelter or referring to other housing options, group and/or individual counseling, group support, advocacy and therapy.
• Employment Services for Non-Custodial Parents – Provides employment services to non-custodial parents who are unemployed or underemployed in order to enable to them to meet their responsibilities to support their children. The State uses segregated federal TANF funds for this activity. Michigan chooses to include the non-custodial parent as a member of the child’s eligible family for this service.
• Family Preservation and Family Support Programs – These services are intended to promote the well-being of children and families by increasing the strength and stability of families.
Family Support services are primarily community-based, in-home preventive activities designed to promote parents’ ability to successfully nurture their children, enable families to use other resources and opportunities available in the community, and create supportive networks to enhance child-rearing abilities of parents.
Family Preservation services are designed to: help families alleviate crises that might lead to out-of-home placement of children; maintain the safety of children; support families preparing to reunite or adopt; and assist families in obtaining services and other supports necessary to address their needs. These services may include: parent skill training; premarital and marriage counseling and mediation services; activities to promote parental access; initiatives to increase the capacity of fathers to provide emotional and financial support; and crisis or intervention services. These services are provided by community- based nonprofit agencies.
Specific services programs include, but are not limited to:
o Preventive Services for Families. o Families First of Michigan. o Mi Family Together. o Families Together Building Solutions. o Family Assistance Program. o In-Home Services Program. o Family Reunification Program. o Parent Partner Program. o Supportive Visitation. o Economic and Concrete Support.