TIP (TANF Initiative for Parents)

The TIP - Camden County program helps good parents become great parents.  This program provides parenting skills, education, and welfare-to-work support to expectant women and new mothers with a baby under the age of one.  Program goals include providing the supports to ensure the welfare of children and to stabilize families and promote self-sufficiency. Mothers can receive services up until the baby turns one, provided she is in program compliance.  Participation is renewed in three month increments.

Services include:

• CWEP positions available (for TIP eligible clients only)
• child care, food prep, and facility maintenance
• daily educational workshop and parent support groups
• weekly home visitation with a Healthy Families/TIP Family Support worker
• promoting healthy child development
• life skills counseling
• career exploration
• employment coaching
• balancing work, family, and access to child care

Participation in the TIP program can count toward part or all of one's mandatory TANF/GA work activity requirement.  TIP as a work activity:

• TIP CWEP - 25 hour core activity
• Healthy Families/TIP Home Visitation - 10 hour non-core activity