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11 ● Meet employment eligible non-citizen status following the requirements of TANF as provided by federal law.
DWS has contractual agreements with external providers to offer services that fall under each TANF purpose. TANF purpose 1 funds addiction intervention and support services, poverty mitigation efforts, domestic violence and sexual assault prevention, family preservation services, rapid rehousing services and homelessness prevention. TANF purpose 2 funds adult mentoring and peer support, basic technology skills, employment retention and job training, expungement assistance and fatherhood initiatives.
TANF purpose 3 contracts provide pregnancy prevention, healthy relationships, pre-k services, afterschool programming and youth mentoring while TANF purpose 4 funds are used for financial education, parenting and relationships skills.
Additional opportunities are continuously being explored and developed that fulfill the TANF purposes in addition to what is listed.
Other TANF Funded Services DWS administers other programs and services internal to the department that meet TANF purposes - ● Refugee Services ○ Extended case management contracted through refugee resettlement agencies ○ English as a Second Language (ESL) ○ Employment counselors and job developers ○ Subsidized employment ○ Summer youth employment ○ Basic technology skills training ○ Refugee Employment Subsidized Housing
Emergency Assistance Homelessness Prevention Program This program provides immediate short-term help to families to remedy and prevent homelessness. Services may be provided to families for up to 30 consecutive days in any 365-day period. Support provided by this program includes rent, mortgage, utility payments, and referral to legal services to avoid eviction if appropriate.
A family, with an eligible dependent child, who is homeless or in danger of becoming homeless due to a crisis situation beyond their control may be eligible for this assistance. An eligible dependent child is defined as a child under the age of 18, or if 18, a full-time student, and is reasonably expected to complete the program by the month they turn age 19.
The expectation is that one-time assistance will enable the eligible family to obtain housing, or maintain their housing and overcome the temporary crisis.
The family must meet ALL eight program eligibility requirements: