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STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA FFY 2024 STATE PLAN FOR TEMPORARY ASSISTANCE FOR NEEDY FAMILIES
social/emotional support networks through hands-on implementation and role modeling. This service provides for the acquisition of skills needed to meet adult role expectations and carry out activities of daily living. Adult Life Skills are intended to improve the capacity for solving problems and resolving conflicts. Possible activities include housekeeping, cleaning, food shopping, meal preparation, laundry, budgeting, utilizing community resources, accessing medical and school records, and personal care/hygiene. This service is implemented when there is a lack of skill knowledge not due to a mental health condition and implies that there is not a lack of motivation. The provider works with the client on the needs identified in the service plan.
● Individualized and General Parenting - Direct face-to-face educational services to improve parental competence, performance and knowledge of:
o Basic child/adolescent care skills o Nurturing o Discipline strategies o Appropriate supervision o Encouragement of child/adolescent care, age-appropriate development o Realistic expectations and standards of child/ adolescent behavior.
● Family Crisis Response - a face-to-face intervention in the family’s natural environment to assess and de-escalate a family emergency. This service may target dysfunctional family interactions or environmental situations that have escalated to the point that the safety (protection from abuse and/or neglect) of a child or the community may be at risk of imminent danger. This service is available twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. This service responds to the current family crisis that involves family disorganization and/or emotional upheaval that has resulted in an inability to adequately function, and problem solve.
● Tutoring - Structured individualized or small group setting of three children or fewer in which a child is taught or guided in an academic area to enhance skills to avoid failing a core educational requirement. This service is time-limited, and a child’s academic functioning level/ability must be considered. Tutoring is to build upon a targeted academic skill in which Page 26