2830 Types of Child Care - Child
care recipients are coded with one of the following types of child care
or payment codes. Each type has specific eligibility guidelines and requirements.
2831
TANF Child Care - TANF Child Care is used when any member of
the nuclear family (as defined in KEESM 4410)
receives TANF (including the Work Incentive payment).
TANF Child Care may be used for the following reasons:
- Work Program Participation - TANF recipients
needing child care to participate in Work Programs. This
includes Tribal members who are subject to requirements under Indian
Tribal TANF programs if not furnished by the Tribal Child Care program. Child
care which is appropriate in meeting any special needs of Tribal participants
must be made available on an equitable basis.
- Maintain Employment - TANF recipients who need
child care for employment. Since participation in on-campus Job Corps
programs is considered employment, TANF Child Care is available for
TANF-eligible Job Corps participants.
- Social Services - TANF recipient families who
have a temporary emergency need. This is primarily based upon the
parent/caretaker’s need and will be authorized for twelve (12) months.
Twenty-four (24) hours of care per day may be available for a period
not to exceed 30 days dependent upon the situation. Licensed
providers need to have a written authorization for an exception from
the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, Child Care Licensing
to provide more than 18 hours of care per day by the same person.
Children in families with or without open social service cases may
be eligible.
Qualifying social service reasons would be:
- Parents in Crisis:
- Parent hospitalized or otherwise temporarily unable to
provide adequate care for the child. This could be inpatient
or outpatient, for physical health, mental health or substance
abuse treatment. There is no other adult to care for the child.
- Family in the process of DCF Intake and Assessment through
Child Protective Services.
- Family receiving services through a family preservation
contractor or DCF Prevention and Protection Services (PPS)
Social Worker. This includes when a child who was previously
in foster care has been placed back with their family and
is still working with a social worker, unless they are eligible
for child care under the Maintain Employment need reason.
- Children in Foster Care. Child care for these families
will not be limited to 12 months as with other social service
child care.
- Children whose caretaker has placed them with a “Safe Families”
due to a family crisis, thereby avoiding placement of the children
in Foster Care. These children are not in Foster Care. Child care
for these children must be needed due to the employment or education/training
of the adults in the “Safe Families”. A completed “Child Care
for Children in Safe Families or Relative or Kinship Foster Care”
form
1627b must accompany the application for child care. This form
is to be completed by a representative of the Safe Families agency.
Child care for these families will not be limited to 12 months
as with other social service child care.
- Parents Performing Essential Functions during a Disaster or
Emergency. When a disaster or emergency has been declared by Kansas
Government and child care is needed for parents to continue performing
essential functions, eligibility for Child Care Assistance may
be granted under the social service need reason. When a disaster
or emergency has been declared, specific guidance will be provided
in a separate Policy Memo for each event due to the limitations
of funds and variations in the number of parents who may be eligible.
In addition to an application, reasonable verification that the
parent performs an essential function that was approved in the
Policy Memo will be required.
The Social Service child care reason would not be used for:
- Respite
care.
- SSI children.
- Children over the age of 13 at the time of initial eligibility.
The appropriate reason would be used based on the need for care.
- Disabled children. The appropriate reason code would be used
based on the need for care.
A Request for Social Services Child Care form
(ES-1627 or ES-1627b) is required and must be signed by the EES/SS Program
Administrator or designee in the respective DCF Service Center. At the
end of the twelve (12)-month timeframe, the family must meet another of
the qualifying reasons for child care in order to continue receiving child
care assistance.
- EHS Partnership - Child care is available for
families participating in the Kansas Early Head Start/Child Care Partnership
program. EES staff will determine if the family has any outstanding
cooperation or fraud issues, but all other aspects of eligibility
shall be determined by the Early Head Start grantees based on Early
Head Start eligibility standards.
See the KEES User Manual for further information on system processing.
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