Tapping TANF for Youth: When and How Welfare Funds Can Support Youth Development, Education, and Employment Initiatives

Publication Date: January 2000

Publisher: Center for Law and Social Policy

Author(s): Mark Greenberg; Marie Cohen

Research Area: Social conditions

Type: Report

Coverage: United States

Abstract:

Describes some of the many ways that TANF funds can be used to support programs for youth. After a concise description of TANF rules regarding what services can be provided and to whom, the report includes examples of states and counties using TANF funds for after-school and summer programs, youth development programs, teen parent programs, and others. Also included is an attachment listing proven and promising program models that could be funded with TANF.

Supplementary file: The TANF Funding Stream: When and How Welfare Funds Can Support Reproductive Health or Teen Parent Initiatives - Provides a concise description of the allowable uses of TANF as well as the types of pregnancy prevention programs and teen parent projects that states are currently funding through TANF and state maintenance-of-effort funds. This paper is excerpted from the longer piece.