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“Helping People Living Better Lives”

| pg. 479 The SNAP Employment and Training (SNAP Next Step) Program helps SNAP participants gain skills, training, or work experience to increase their ability to obtain regular employment that leads to economic self-sufficiency. Additionally, the Employment and Training program offers a way to allow SNAP recipients to meet SNAP work requirements. Services provided will meet the TANF Purpose Two: “to end the dependence of needy parents on government benefits by promoting job preparation, work, and marriage by supporting parents job and career advancement activities.” Eligible participants must be families with dependents under age 19 with a SNAP recipient enrolled in the Employment and Training program. Services are considered non-assistance by the agency. The funding method is federal dollars only. The Nebraska Healthy Marriages and Responsible Fatherhood Initiative The Nebraska Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood Initiative’s goals are: 1. Strengthen positive father-child engagement; 2. Improve healthy relationships (including a couple and co-parenting); 3. Improve healthy marriages; and, 4. Improve employment and economic mobility opportunities for non-custodial fathers. The Nebraska Healthy Marriages and Responsible Fatherhood Initiative include the following activities: 1. Improving the father’s economic stability through job-readiness training; 2. Financial counseling and planning; 3. Relationship building after incarceration; and 4. Skill-based parenting education. Participation in this program meets TANF purpose four, encouraging the formation and maintenance of two-parent families. Core Services Provided that Meet TANF Purpose Four: 1. Activities that promote or sustain marriages: • Fathers' relationship skills will be addressed through co-parenting curricula, "Children in Between and Getting' Ahead;" and, • Couples counseling upon request. 2. Activities to promote and foster responsible parenting, stability, and support for children: • Fathers will attend the "Nurturing Father's Program," an evidence-based program. The 13- week course develops attitudes and skills for male nurturance. • Legal Aid's Health, Education & Law Project (HELP) will provide an on-site visit to the HMRF provider site to assist fathers with legal issues to focus on family stability. Legal Aid will assist fathers in establishing child visitation rights credit and collections surrounding child support, as well as evictions. 3. Activities to foster economic stability for the two-parent family: