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Families First (a TN Dept of Human Services funded program)
 

Workforce Essentials was selected from several proposals from local, state, and national service organizations to administer job placement services to Families First customers in 34 west/middle Tennessee Counties.

We have committed to a five-year service agreement with the Tennessee Department of Human Services (DHS) to focus on Temporary Assistance to needy Families (TANF) initiatives and offer a comprehensive network of services, including career assessments and job search, to help DHS Families First clients.

Families First Contacts & Locations

Families First, Tennessee's groundbreaking welfare reform program, has been updated to place heavier emphasis on assisting individuals with finding work first, while offering assistance with any necessary job skills. Participants receive childcare, transportation and other services bridging the gap from government assistance to self-sufficiency through developing tailored career plans.

 

Families First GOALS: Our primary goal is to quickly move Families First clients into unsubsidized employment and to accomplish this prior to their 60-month lifetime limit on welfare based services. Our service plan takes into account that a client must be engaged in a minimum of thirty (30) hours per week in a combination of core or non-core activities. Twenty (20) of the total thirty (30) hours will be in core activities. The core activities that will be delivered are:

●Unsubsidized employment

●Job Search and Job Readiness Assistance

●Work Experience

●Vocational Educational Training

●Community Service Programs

●Subsidized Public or Private Sector Employment

Non-Core activities, such as adult education and job skills training (directly related to employment) will not exceed 10 hours of the required 30 hours of participation per week.

 

Our Background: In 1992 Workforce Essentials was incorporated to provide employment and training services to job seekers in Tennessee. For fifteen years, we have assisted tens of thousands of Tennesseans become self-sufficient through job training and placement assistance. In 1995, Workforce Essentials was one of the original contractors to the Department of Human Services in the JobsWork program. Through the years, Workforce Essentials has been a committed and successful partner of DHS operating the Families First program. Currently operating Families First programs in nine counties, Workforce Essentials had the two highest average Work Participation Rates in the State for calendar year 2006.

Workforce Essentials was chosen by the North Tennessee Workforce Board and the local elected officials to deliver workforce development services in a multi-county region. In addition to our Tennessee service delivery area for individual assistance programs, Workforce Essentials has expanded its business services division into several states providing such programs as drug & alcohol testing, employee assessment & training, and business consulting.

Workforce Essentials has operated grant programs under the Job Training Partnership Act and the Workforce Investment Act since 1992 for the Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development. Services include administration of the Tennessee Career Center System and delivery of Adult, Dislocated and Youth programs to Job Seekers and Employers.

For information about Tennessee’s Families First program, go to www.state.tn.us/humanserv .

 


 

 
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