Exemptions, Extensions, & Good Cause
A TANF parent may be exempt from participating in ASPIRE if they are caring for this type of person (name one type)
What is a disabled family member, child under 1, or VISTA volunteer?
The number of required work participation hours/week for a single parent with a child under 6
What is 20 hours?
This documentation is required before requesting an auto repair support service
What is a driver's license, auto insurance, vehicle registration, and a repair estimate
It is important to recognize potential signs of trauma in others to (hopefully) avoid this
What is Re-traumatization?
The year Fedcap was founded
What is 1935?
This is the maximum time for an exemption for caring for a newborn
What is 12 months?
The number of weekly required hours for a two-parent household without a childcare subsidy
What is 35 hours/week?
This amount is the cap for annual clothing support for a participant
What is $300?
To work with a trauma-informed lens helps a staff member understand this
What is how past trauma may affect how people think, feel, behave?
These are the four practice areas of The Fedcap Group
What is Workforce Development, Education, Health, and Economic Development?
This allows a participant to temporarily suspend compliance with ASPIRE-TANF rules
What is Good Cause?
The number of allowable TANF activities
What is 12?
When you review support services with a participant
What is every time you meet with them?
Seeing people as survivors of trauma instead of victims of trauma helps staff to do this
What is shift the focus from weakness to strength, highlighting resilience?
According to our website, this is the mission of The Fedcap Group
What is "The Fedcap Group is Committed to Creating Opportunities and Improving the Lives of People with Barriers to Economic Well-being"?
The number of excused absence hours a participant is allowed per year
What is 80?
Our case management tool is FedcapCARES. CARES stands for this
What is Customer Assistance for Re-employment and Economic Support?
Designed to assist participants overcome challenges to participation are known as this
What are work supports?
This is a technique staff can use to avoid re-traumatizing participants (name one technique)
What is be sensitive, avoid harsh language/surprises, and respect boundaries?
He is the Senior Vice President of the Workforce Development practice area for The Fedcap Group
Who is Grant E. Collins II?
Name three types of extensions
What is disabled family member, training/education program, working families, pregnancy, emergency, domestic violence
This happens to the required hours for a two-parent household if one parent is disabled
What is the requirement may be adjusted or waived with documentation?
True or False - Support services can be requested only once during a participant's TANF eligibility period
What is False? Support Services are reviewed as needed
These are the six key principles of trauma-informed service delivery (name three principles)
Safety; trustworthiness and transparency; peer support; collaboration and mutuality; empowerment, voice and choice; cultural, historical and gender issues
This is the year that Fedcap launched in Maine
What is 2016?