Title: Analyze community programs and resources that offer health care or financial assistance.
Course: GRADS – Family Focus (19905-36) > Section: Evaluating the Cost of Parenthood

Analysis should include programs and resources offered by agencies such as

- Office of Family Assistance (OFA)
- Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF)
- The Center for Faith and Opportunity Initiatives (Partnership Center)
- other community-based and faith-based organizations and groups
- Virginia Initiative for Employment, Not Welfare (VIEW)
- Women, Infant, and Children program (WIC)
- Virginia Cooperative Extension Family and Consumer Sciences agents and paraprofessionals.

Process/Skill Questions

Thinking

- What are the benefits of using the programs and resources for health care and financial assistance?
- What service does each agency provide?

Communication

- What programs and resources are offered by the United States Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Family Assistance?

Leadership

- What do local and state health department clinics offer?
- How do the various agencies work together for pregnant and parenting adolescents?

Management

- What are the benefits of the Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) Program?
- How are services for these agencies paid for?