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Parent/Child Visitation Intensive Family Preservation Services Casework/Case Management Services Diagnostic and Assessment Services Family Support Services including Respite Care Family Centers — collaborative community efforts to provide a range of services to children and their families at a single location. Centers that provide child welfare TANF services described in the plan provide those services to eligible children to promote keeping families together and to maintain children in their own homes. Child welfare TANF funds are directed to specific children served by the family centers and are not used to support the center’s administration. Counseling Services Parenting and Home Management Services Independent Living Services Preventive Services focused on promoting family stability and responsible behavior of individuals and reducing economic dependence Day Treatment and Protective Child Care Services Non-Medical Substance Disorder Services Other In-home Services Programs Promoting Responsible Fatherhood Adoption Services
3. Services provided to “Placed Children” adjudicated dependent or under the care and supervision of the CCYA who have been placed into residential care.
Placed children are children who are living in twenty-four-hour substitute care and are under the supervision of a CCYA. As authorized in the approved Title IV-A State Plan in effect as of September 30, 1995, TANF funds may be used to pay for non-Title IV-E eligible emergency shelter services, not to exceed 30 consecutive days in a 12-month period and in accordance with 55 Pa. Code §§3130.37 and 3140.22(c) and the purchases of services provided to children temporarily placed in residential care provided that the services are not part of the per diem and are billed services. Eligible services include: Child Protective Services/Child Abuse Child Care Services Day Treatment Services Child Protective Services-General Information and Referral Services Service Planning Counseling/Intervention Services Homemaker/Caretaker Services