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Nevada TANF State Plan P a g e | 5 1 Effective December 31, 2020 The Nye Communities Coalition Summer Program mentors and enriches children and youth through summer and ongoing programs that improve the lives and educational attainment of those children whose family income is below 185% of poverty. The Tahoe Family Solutions Camp Explore summer program and Homework Help Club after school tutoring program provides educational and life skills assistance and curriculum designed to improve the lives and educational success of low-income children and youth below 200% FPL. Washoe County Children/Youth programs provide varied activities for children/youth such as after school and summer programs. These programs serve to enrich the lives of children/youth in low-income families. TANF Purpose: 3) Prevent and reduce the incidence of out-of-wedlock pregnancies; and 4) Encourage the formation and maintenance of two-parent families. Type: TANF pro-family. 18.10 Pregnancy Prevention Programs (#18) Programs that provide sex education or abstinence education and family planning services to individuals, couples, and families in an effort to reduce out-of-wedlock pregnancies. The DWSS provides support for pregnancy prevention education and abstinence programs and family planning through the Nevada Public Health Foundation STARS program provided to TANF and other benefit program participants. This class has been expanded to not only include TANF teen parents but also other pregnant and parenting teens receiving other forms of assistance such as Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP) and Child Welfare. The 1-day STARS class places emphasis on education, employment, success in the workplace, decision-making, money management and health, such as birth control and sexually transmitted diseases. Other programs may include the material above as well as family and social skills, parenting skills or a combination of material focused on the successful outcome of future self- sufficiency. Other examples of Nevada’s pregnancy prevention programs are listed below. Douglas County Community Health Nurse Family Planning program provides pregnancy prevention services and materials to youth and adults below 125% of the federal poverty level. Nye Communities Coalition Family Planning program provides birth control, healthy relationship and communicable disease prevention education and counseling, and health education, including pregnancy prevention brochures, etc. TANF Purpose: 3) Prevent and reduce the incidence of out-of-wedlock pregnancies Type: TANF and State MOE. 18.11 Fatherhood and 2-Parent Family Formation and Maintenance Programs (#19) Pro-family programs that aim to promote responsible fatherhood/parenting and/or encourage the formation and maintenance of two-parent families. These programs