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Tribal TANF

The OVCDC's Tribal TANF Program services focus on four components:

  1. To provide assistance to needy families so that their children may be cared for in their own homes.
  2. To end the dependence of needy parents on government benefits by promoting job preparation, work and marriage.
  3. To prevent and reduce out-of-wedlock pregnancies.
  4. To encourage the formation and maintenance of two-parent families.

Service Area:

Inyo, Kern, Tulare, Kings and Fresno Counties

Program Components:

Cash Aid

Prevention

Tribal TANF Cash Aid Program Key Elements:

Eligibility limited to families

Time Limits - 60 months in a lifetime limit for employable adults

Program focuses on work, self-sufficiency and personal responsibility

Member or Descendent of a Federally recognized tribe or California Indian Judgment rolls

Cash Aid Eligibility Requirements:

Income – Equal to or less than 200% of the Federal Poverty level

Resources – Countable resources not to exceed $2,000.00

Adults able to work, must satisfactorily participate in approved work activities for a minimum 24 hours per week

Approved Work Activities include, but not limited to:

  • Employment
  • Work experience
  • On-the-Job training
  • Job club/Job search
  • Community service training
  • Post-secondary education
  • Vocational education
  • Job skills training directly related to employment
  • Education directly related to employment
  • Domestic violence, substance abuse and mental health counseling/treatment
  • Vocation rehabilitation
  • Small business/micro enterprise training
  • Life skills training
  • Native American culture related education and training activities

Services Provided:

Cash assistance

Referrals to employment, education and training providers

Supportive Services – Child Care, transportation, other

Incentive Payments - Clothing allowances for school children attending school, payments upon successful completion of activities; other

Prevention Program:

Coordination and/or funding for services/activities for families and children who are at risk of being on public assistance focusing on traditional culture, art, education, culture, recreation, music and sport

Eligibility Criteria:

  • Income less than 300% of Federal Poverty Levels
  • At-Risk Youth

Completion funding request/proposal forms 90 days in advance of service activity.

Service Activity must meet TANF purposes #3 or #4

Service activity must include a Native American cultural component.