Reach Up helps young families with children by providing services that support work, cash assistance for basic necessities, and health insurance. Parents involved with Reach Up through SAPCC are usually younger than 24 years old and have one or more children living with them. Contact Julie for more information.
Reach Up offers:
- A case manager to help you find your place in the working world
- Transitional cash assistance to help pay for basic living expenses
- Medicaid health insurance
Reach Up helps with:
- Identifying your skills, abilities, interests, training or education needs
- Preparing you for work
- Childcare costs
- Transportation costs or car repairs
- Work-related costs such as clothing, tools, and supplies
What's the first step?
Eligibility depends on your income, resources, living expenses, who lives with you, your ability to work, and other factors.
A Reach Up case manager will assess your work readiness. This means looking at your skills and abilities, job interests, and training or education. We also look at anything that makes it difficult to work, such as childcare, transportation, and health or personal problems.
How will Reach Up help you get a job?
Your case manager will help you create a personal Family Development Plan (FDP) to maps out your goals and the steps you'll take to achieve them. These steps might include activities such as:
- Getting a GED or high school diploma
- Training and education
- On-the-job training/work experience
- Job Search
- Employment
As you work through the steps, we'll update the plan together. A successful FDP will help you meet your work requirement.
What is a work requirement?
Your Reach Up case manager will explain what your work requirement is. You'll need to spend a certain number of hours a week either working or participating in approved activities that lead to a job. The number of hours varies depending on your family situation. Everyone's plan will be different. We'll look at the activities in your plan and see what support services you need to be successful. You may not have to go to work right away if you have a health problem, are taking care of a very young child, or if childcare is not available.
How can Reach Up help support your Family Development Plan?
Some of the things that Reach Up can help with are:
- Childcare
- Transportation or car repairs
- Clothing
- Tools and supplies
What help is available after you go to work?
Support services may continue even after you go to work. Getting a job is just one part of the big picture. If you still need some help after you get a job or after Reach Up cash assistance ends, you may still be able to get:
- Health insurance
- Food stamps
- Help with child support collections
- Help paying for childcare
- Fuel assistance
We can also help you keep your job or get a better job.
