A discussion of the need and funding available for summer youth employment. WIA and Wagner-Peyser funds can be used to help youth gain and retain employment, while TANF ECF can provide subsidized employment and other TANF services to low-income youth. However, as a reminder, WIA and other federal funds cannot be used to make up the 20 percent of expenditures for subsidized employment programs require. State law for TANF ECF limits eligibility to the needy family population to families with a minor child living with a parent or adult relative caregiver; and families in which the minor child is temporarily absent for up to 12 months, due to child abuse and neglect, and the parent or parents are engaged in family reunification services. As long as a youth who is 24 years of age or younger is residing with an eligible family and is related to the minor child, he or she may be placed in TANF ECF subsidized employment. Youth, in a foster care placement with a CalWORKs or needy family are also eligible for TANF ECF subsidized employment. In this situation, the foster care youth does not have to be related to a member of the eligible family. Emancipated youth who are no longer in a foster care placement and who are 24 years old or younger are only eligible if they are residing with a CalWORKs or “needy family” in which the emancipated youth is related to the minor child. [Download]
Summaries of select CalWORKs, CalFresh, Health and Housing Regulations