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TANF STATE PLAN STATE OF MICHIGAN DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Page 23 Effective Date: January 1, 2020 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.

• Subsidized Employment Program – This subsidized employment program provides opportunities for PATH participants working with the Michigan Works! Agencies (MWAs) to gain workplace skills needed to transition from being long-term unemployed to being employment ready. This program is short in nature and not considered ongoing assistance but is a work subsidy program where PATH participants learn employability skills such as communication, organization and customer service. This activity allows an employer the opportunity to observe how the participant functions in a work environment to potentially hire them permanently after the subsidy is complete. Individuals are eligible for this program if they are part of a needy family whose income does not exceed 200% of the federal poverty limit.

• 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 and by increasing parents’ confidence and competence in their family/household management parenting abilities.

Family Support services are primarily community-based 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:

• Preventive Services for Families • Child Protection: Working Together as Community Partners • Families First of Michigan • Family Reunification Program • Child Safety and Permanency Planning • Parent Partner Program • Wraparound Services

• Post-Adoption Services – Provides supportive services to adoptive parents and children, such as individual or group support, child or family mentoring, information and referral, crisis intervention, community and recreational services, educational support, and service coordination.