 Saving
for Us, Individual Development Accounts
Saving for Us is a new matched savings program designed to
help low income individuals and families save for and purchase
their asset dream. Participants open special savings accounts,
Individual
Development
Accounts
(IDAs), and save $30 or more each month. When they’re
ready to buy a house, launch a business, or go to school,
their savings are matched. While they're saving they
can strengthen their financial knowledge, sharpen their money
management skills and repair their credit record in a ten
part personal finance and money management workshop series.
Serves all 14 counties.
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Homemaker
Aide Program & Elderly Chore Service
The
Homemaker Aide & Elderly Chore Service Programs help
elderly, handicapped and protective service clients remain
in their homes
rather than seek alternative care in nursing and foster homes.
Services include light housekeeping, errands, cooking, and
counseling for families as required for protective service
clients. Funded
by the TN Department of Human Services, TN Commission on Aging,
Upper Cumberland Development District Area Agency on Aging,
and local governments. Serves all 14 counties.
Personal Care Services
The Personal Care Services Program
assists the elderly and disabled population with bathing,
dressing,
eating,
toileting,
and transferring
in and out of bed. Serves all 14 counties.
Statewide Home and Community Based
Waiver-Home Modifications for the Elderly and Disabled
The home modifications program
for the elderly and disabled includes
the provision and installation of
certain home mobility aides (ramps, rails, non skid surfacing,
grab bars, and home modifications which facilitate mobility)
and modification which enhance safety to enable the individual
self-sufficiency. Serves all 14 counties.
 Commodities
(Temporary Emergency Food Assistance Program)
The Commodities Program provides
surplus foods to low-income households. Funded by the U.S.
Dept.
of Agriculture.
Serves all 14 counties.
Low-Income
Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP)
The
Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) provides
assistance in meeting energy bills for low-income families
(regular assistance)
and families who have either exhausted their fuel supply
or have notice of shut-off (emergency assistance). Funded
by the Tennessee
Department of Human Services. Serves all 14 counties.
Weatherization
Assistance Program (WAP)
The
Weatherization Assistance Program (WAP) provides
basic insulation and weatherization measures for low-income
households.
Funded by the TN Department of Human Services. Serves all
14 counties.
Emergency
Services Program
The
Emergency Services Program provides
assistance to eligible households in the service counties in
the form
of food, shelter, energy, prescribed drugs, and homeless prevention.
Funded by the TN Department of Human Services, Emergency Food & Shelter
Program, Community Services Block Grant, Federal Emergency
Management. Serves
all 14 counties.
Information
and Referral Services
The Information and Referral Services Program
helps families and individuals in accessing services
and resources available
in their community.
Serves
all 14 counties.
Child & Adult
Care Food Program
The Child & Adult
Care Food Program supplements
the cost of meals and snacks to caregivers for
children enrolled in Registered or Licensed Day
Care Homes. Currently
serves
14 counties plus Bedford, Coffee, Davidson (east
of airport), Franklin, Giles, Lewis, Lincoln,
Marshall, Maury, Moore,
Rutherford, Sumner, Williamson, and Wilson.
Child
Care Development Fund
The
Child Care Development Fund helps to meet child care expenses
for
low income working parents and teen parents under age 19
who are enrolled
in high school. Eligibility determined by UCHRA, the broker
agency. Serves
all 14 counties.
Social Service Block Grant
The
Non-welfare; Social Service Block Grant helps
to meet child care expenses for
parents in secondary training, for working parents, and/or
for parents
having children with developmental delays. Eligibility
determined by UCHRA, the broker agency. Serves
all 14 counties.
Social
Service Block Grant (Custody)
The
Social Service Block Grant (Custody) helps
to meet child care expenses for
children who are in State custody. Eligibility determined
by the TN
Dept. of Children’s Services. Serves
all 14 counties. Social
Service Block Grant (Non-Custody)
The
Social Service Block Grant (Non-Custody) helps
to meet child care expenses for
foster children. Eligibility determined by the TN Dept. of
Children’s
Services. Serves
all 14 counties. Child
Care Broker Program
The Child
Care Broker Program is funded by the TN Dept. of Human
Services. The program assists qualifying parents
with child care expenses.
UCHRA assists parents by educating them about different
types of child
care and assists them in locating quality child
care. Serves
all 14 counties.
Adult Protective Service (APS) Homemaker
The Adult Protective Service
Homemaker Program assists
fragile adults that have been abused, neglected or exploited
with
household
chores,
errands,
budgeting, etc to enable them to live without the fear
of being abused. Serves all 14 counties.
Court Appointed
Special Advocate (CASA)
CASA volunteers are appointed by a judge to determine the best possible outcome
for an abused or neglected child. Despite the state’s attempts to help,
many of these children become trapped in the court and child welfare maze and
can spend their childhood moving from one temporary shelter to another. CASA
becomes the voice of these children. Serves Putnam county.
Housing Opportunity for Persons
with AIDS (HOPWA)
The Housing
Opportunity for Persons with AIDS (HOPWA) Program
provides
housing information services including counseling,
information and referral to assist eligible individuals
to locate,
acquire, finance and maintain housing to prevent
homelessness. Additional
services include assistance with
needs assessment, drug and alcohol abuse treatment
and counseling, daycare, and nutritional service
through
local, state and
federal benefits and services. Serves
all 14 counties.
Ryan White Community AIDS Partnership
- Case Management: UCHRA
provides a wide range of client-centered services that
link clients
with health care, psychosocial and other services. We
ensure timely and coordinate access to medically appropriate
levels of health and support services and continuity
of care, through on-going assessment of the client's
and other key family members' needs and personal support
systems.
- Transportation: UCHRA
provides conveyance services, directly through UCARTS
or through a prepaid gas card, to clients so that they
may access health care, or psychosocial services.
Serves all 14 counties.
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