Vermont Statutes Title 33 Sec. 1106
Terms Used In Vermont Statutes Title 33 Sec. 1106
- Caretaker: means an individual 18 years of age or older who is fulfilling a parental role in caring for a dependent child by providing physical care, guidance, and decision making related to the child's health, school, medical care, and discipline. See
- Case management: means the services provided by or through the Department to participating families, including assessment, information, referrals, and assistance in the preparation and implementation of a family development plan under section 1107 of this title. See
- Commissioner: means the Commissioner for Children and Families or his or her designee. See
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Department: means the Department for Children and Families. See
- Family: means :
- Financial assistance: means cash, payments, electronic or direct payments for a family's housing or other expenses, and other forms of benefits designed to meet a family's ongoing basic needs that are available through the Reach Up program. See
- following: when used by way of reference to a section of the law shall mean the next preceding or following section. See
- Parent: means :
- Participating family: means an eligible family that participates in the Reach Up program. See
- Reach Up: means the program administered by the Department that assists and enables eligible families to become self-sufficient by providing financial assistance and Reach Up services. See
§ 1106. Required services to participating families
(a) The Commissioner shall provide participating families case management services, periodic reassessment of service needs and the family development plan, and referral to any agencies or programs that provide the services needed by participating families to improve the family’s prospects for job placement and job retention, including the following:
(1) Appropriate child care, available at times that will enable employment or participation in services indicated by the participating family‘s family development plan. As used in this subdivision, “appropriate child care” shall not include:
(A) child care that the Department classifies as legally exempt child care, and that a parent or caretaker determines to be unacceptable; and
(B) child care that the Department classifies as either a registered family child care home or a licensed child care facility, and that a parent or caretaker determines to be unacceptable when such determination is confirmed by the Department.
(2) Transportation that will enable employment or participation in services indicated by the participating family’s family development plan.
(3) Career counseling, education, and training, job search assistance, and postsecondary education consistent with the purposes of this chapter.
(4) Vocational rehabilitation.
(5) Medical assistance.
(6) Homelessness prevention and housing assistance. For homeless families, housing search is a “job-readiness assistance activity” as long as consistent with the Department’s rules.
(7) Family planning education and counseling.
(8) Assistance with obtaining documentation of an apparent or claimed physical, emotional, or mental condition that reasonably can be presumed to limit or eliminate the individual’s capacity to engage in employment or other work activity.
(9) Services for teen parents through the teen parent education program established in cooperation with the Agency of Education.
(10) Any other services identified in the family development plan and determined by the Commissioner to be necessary and appropriate to achieve the purposes of this chapter.
(b) The Commissioner shall provide specialized case management services to families no later than four months after a family’s financial assistance grant has been reduced as a result of a sanction under section 1116 of this title. The specialized case management shall be provided through a performance-based contract in order to intervene in the family’s situation with the goal of compliance with an appropriate family development plan or work requirements as required under sections 1112 and 1113 of this title. The contract may be performed by another department within the Agency or by a community-based organization. If, after two months, a family fails to participate in specialized case management, case management shall resume through Reach Up. (Added 1999, No. 147 (Adj. Sess.), § 1, eff. July 1, 2001; amended 2007, No. 30, § 6, eff. May 17, 2007; 2009, No. 146 (Adj. Sess.), § C12; 2013, No. 92 (Adj. Sess.), § 291, eff. Feb. 14, 2014; 2015, No. 172 (Adj. Sess.), § E.323.3.)