11 21 11 Work Session_Family Self-Sufficiency MVM MemoFamily Self- Sufficiency Program
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•Housing & Urban Development (HUD)
funded program for HCV participants
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•Seek and maintain suitable
employment
•Agree to participate in case
management and other support
services
•Be free of welfare for one year prior
to completing the program
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•Support families to achieve self -
sufficiency
•Coordinate services families need to
meet their goals
•Establish & maintain the FSS Escrow
Account
•Determine when the family has met
the goals of their Contract of
Participation & is eligible to graduate
•Pay the family escrow due upon
completion of contract
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EXAMPLE
AT CO COITTRACT S3 T r No employment aam ent dmmca3m a *act Rent is $500
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S500 Contact Rent
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AT FIRST ::E :A/A:NATIONS Empicyment income Mt a y. TTP to, '300.
Cat Rent is still $5'8O.
Tonal Tenant P aw:e»F In
$300
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PHA Subsists
$OO
TaaEscrow
Family SeIf-Si#iciency (FSS) Experience
November 1, 2011
125 FSS Participants
,,.5% of all Voucher Pairiicipaiirs
August 2010
28 FSS Participants
3% of all Voucher Participants
Bridges Initiative
Bridges Out of Poverty - Ge
rig Ahead - Circles
The Bridges Initiative
Bridges Out of
Poverty
Teaching the
Hidden Rules of
poverty to the
middle class
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$7 - $16,000
Trainings &
Sponsorships
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Teaching the Hidden
Rules of middle class
to those in poverty
$50,600
Dubuque Works
City of Dubuque
Circles°
Forming intentional
relationships that
cross class lines
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$44,500
City of Dubuque
Dubuque Works