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STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA FFY 2024 STATE PLAN FOR TEMPORARY ASSISTANCE FOR NEEDY FAMILIES
promoting job preparation, work, and marriage may include but are not limited to:
● Self-sufficiency and life skills education, such as budgeting and financial literacy classes, ● Adult education, tutoring and literacy instruction, ● Job and career readiness training and services, ● Cooking and nutrition classes.
FSC services and supports that are designed to prevent and reduce the incidence of out-of-wedlock pregnancies may include but are not limited to:
● Adolescent pregnancy prevention programming, ● Teen support groups.
FSC services and supports that are designed to encourage the formation and maintenance of two parent families may include but are not limited to:
● Parenting education classes, ● Parent support groups, ● Responsible Fatherhood and paternal engagement programming.
The provision of this type of aid, funded by federal TANF dollars, is consistent with the efforts being made by West Virginia to assist needy families so that children can be cared for in their own homes or the homes of relatives, to end the dependency of needy parents on government benefits, to prevent and reduce the incidence of out-of-wedlock pregnancies, and to promote the formation and maintenance of two-parent families. The various types of non-assistance being provided will help to strengthen and maintain two-parent families through both the alleviation of short-term financial crises as well as the prevention of potential problems that may place undue strain on families and will help to prevent and reduce both out-of-wedlock and teenage pregnancies.
A family receiving WV WORKS, SNAP, Medicaid, or CHIP; or families with children receiving or determined eligible for childcare subsidy assistance under the Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG) will be deemed to be a needy family. The Family’s income must also be below 300% FPL. Page 20