Temporary Assistance Services

The Vendor is required to provide the temporary assistance for needy family’s block grant.
- Families must participate in work activities and cooperate with child support enforcement.
- Families build on their strengths and actively seek employment, which includes being assigned a case manager and completing a family self-sufficiency plan (FSSP) and employability assessment for each adult in the household.
- Supportive services are available through program case management and may be used to purchase or reimburse the costs of services determined necessary to support work activities such as childcare, transportation and job-related training.
- This includes planning for self-support, actively pursuing child support, and prevention of unplanned and out-of-wedlock pregnancies.
- The state disqualifies the entire assistance unit if a parent refuses or quits a job and penalizes the assistance unit if a parent fails, without good cause, to participate in work and other self-sufficiency activities or fails to cooperate with child support enforcement.
- Coordination of social service efforts and providing for wrap-around services focused on family integrity, stability, and self-sufficiency allows families experiencing multiple and profound challenges to make meaningful progress towards employment, self-sufficiency, and exiting the program.
- Case managers evaluate and work with these families to assist with family self-sufficiency without employment.
- Since program implementation, continued public involvement has been promoted through information sharing and numerous opportunities for public comment.
- Private organizations sponsored meetings between state government representatives and groups of recipients at shelters and at community service agencies.
- A caretaker relative must be a parent, a woman in the last trimester of her pregnancy, or a relative to child within at least the fifth degree of kinship.
- The family caretaker is an unmarried minor parent not living with a parent or in another approved, adult-supervised setting.

- Contract Period/Term: 1 year