TANF
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Welcome to our Washakie TANF program!
This program is meant to help strengthen families in Washakie County. Up to 12 qualifying families will receive up to $1,000 to spend on allowable expenses through September 30th, 2025. |
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The following are resources available to participants of our TANF program.
Qualified TANF Participants receive up to $1,000 through September 30th, 2025 to spend on the following items.
- Rent Payments
- Utility Payments
- Home Repairs
- Dental Services
- Vision Screening
- Doctor Visits
- Auto Repair
To be a qualified participant you must have the following:
- At least one dependent child. (Custodial parent, non-custodial parent with financial responsibility, or a guardian who is related to the child or children.
- Be a Wyoming resident.
- Be a U.S. Citizen or legal permanent resident.
- Income must not exceed 185% of the Federal Poverty Level.
The goals of this program are as follows:
● Alleviate poverty and prevent hardship among children and families.
● Create effective pathways to economic opportunity, including access to mainstream education and training and individualized services for those with barriers to employment.
● Programs or services to keep children in their homes or in the homes of relatives.
● Provide employment, job preparation, or training services.
● Provide prevention of out-of-wedlock pregnancies programs.
● Provide programs and services for youth such as counseling, mentoring, teen pregnancy prevention campaigns, and after-school programs that provide supervision when school is not in session.
● Provide parenting skills training, premarital and marriage counseling, and mediation services.
● Activities to promote parental access and visitation.
● Provide job placement and training services for noncustodial parents.
● Initiatives to promote responsible fatherhood and increase the capacity of fathers to provide emotional and financial support for their children.
● Provide crisis or intervention services.
● Provide substance abuse and mental health treatment for families and children.
● Alleviate poverty and prevent hardship among children and families.
● Create effective pathways to economic opportunity, including access to mainstream education and training and individualized services for those with barriers to employment.
● Programs or services to keep children in their homes or in the homes of relatives.
● Provide employment, job preparation, or training services.
● Provide prevention of out-of-wedlock pregnancies programs.
● Provide programs and services for youth such as counseling, mentoring, teen pregnancy prevention campaigns, and after-school programs that provide supervision when school is not in session.
● Provide parenting skills training, premarital and marriage counseling, and mediation services.
● Activities to promote parental access and visitation.
● Provide job placement and training services for noncustodial parents.
● Initiatives to promote responsible fatherhood and increase the capacity of fathers to provide emotional and financial support for their children.
● Provide crisis or intervention services.
● Provide substance abuse and mental health treatment for families and children.