View definitions of terms used throughout the Pathways Clearinghouse.
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Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF)
TANF provides federal grant funds to states to provide families with children (including pregnant women) or individual children whose incomes falls below a certain threshold with time-limited financial assistance and related supports, such as childcare assistance and job preparation services. Each state determines the type and amount of assistance, other supports, and eligibility requirements. TANF replaced Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) in 1996. Unlike AFDC, TANF requires adults who are able to work to participate in work or training activities and limits families with adult recipients to no more than five years of benefits.
Tested in multiple settings
Pathways describes studies as having been conducted in multiple settings if the study authors do not describe the study as having been conducted in communities that were exclusively rural, exclusively suburban, or exclusively urban. In other words, when study authors do not specify the study as having been implemented in a specific type of setting, then Pathways classifies the study as tested in multiple settings. For example, an intervention may be tested across multiple counties or an entire state, which include different types of communities. Interventions are listed as having been tested in multiple settings if at least one study of the intervention is characterized that way.
The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC)
WIC provides federal grants to states for supplemental foods, health care referrals, and nutrition education for pregnant, breastfeeding, and non-breastfeeding postpartum women, and to infants and children up to age five determined to be at "nutritional risk" by a health professional. To be eligible, applicants' gross income must fall at or below 185 percent of the U.S. Poverty Income Guidelines, though states may set lower income eligibility limits.
Training
Any training program. Training may be an intervention's primary service.
Transitional jobs
Jobs that are meant to integrate those who have been out of the workforce (for example, people who were formerly incarcerated) into the community. They can be paid or unpaid. Transitional jobs may be an intervention's primary service.