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16 Waterford Institute Pilot Program This initiative enables high-needs, low-income families to close the achievement gap by empowering parents and caregivers as their child’s first teacher right in the home. The program helps children develop foundational academic and cognitive skills using personalized, adaptive, interactive software. The program focuses on eligible children in their individual family homes and Family Child Care Type A & Type B home providers serving children through the publicly funded childcare program. This program is reasonably expected to achieve outcomes under TANF purpose one and three because the program aims to provide parents guidance, training and ongoing coaching to help parents engage more intentionally in their child’s learning to develop school readiness. Additionally, research shows at risk children who start kindergarten without basic skills are 40% more likely to become teen parents. The program provides the basic skills to prepare them for success in school. A pregnant person, parent, custodian or non-custodial parent of a minor child(ren) who resides in Ohio, whose household is at or below 200% FPL and is a U.S. citizen or meets a citizenship exemption, is eligible for these TANF services. Eligible participants are targeted for TANF services. Marriage Works! Ohio This initiative provides funding to support the Marriage Works Ohio program in Dayton to provide relationship and marital support, successful marriage strategies to couples, as well as healthy relationship strategies to teens to prevent out of wedlock parenting. This initiative is reasonably designed to meet TANF purpose four. A pregnant person, parent, custodian or noncustodial parent of a minor child(ren) who resides in Ohio, whose household income is at or below 200% Federal Poverty Level and is a U.S. Citizen or meets a citizenship exemption, is eligible for these TANF Services. Eligible participants are targeted for the TANF services. University Settlement This initiative supports the University Settlement family assistance programs, which provide intervention and support to families in the Broadway-Slavic village neighborhood of Cleveland at risk of losing one or more children to child-welfare/foster care. Families will receive a family services plan to address barriers and provide strategies for children to remain in parental custody. This initiative is based on family stabilization which would reasonably be designed to meet TANF purpose one. The program is funded by TANF with no NRST benefits offered. A pregnant person, parent, custodian or non-custodial parent of a minor child(ren) who resides in Ohio, whose household is at or below 200% FPL and is a U.S. citizen or meets a citizenship exemption, is eligible for these TANF services. Eligible participants are targeted for TANF services. Communities in Schools of Ohio This initiative supports youth who are at risk of dropping out of school. The grantees will work with school districts experiencing chronic absenteeism and provide wraparound services to address family and/or student barriers to academic success. This initiative is reasonably designed to meet TANF purpose three. A pregnant person, parent, custodian or noncustodial parent of a minor child(ren) who resides in Ohio, whose household income is at or below 200% Federal Poverty Level and is a U.S. Citizen or meets a citizenship exemption, is eligible for these TANF Services. Eligible participants are targeted for the TANF services.