Social
Services:
Soft Skills
Scholarships
Scholarship application
(PDF format)
Tenn. Dept. of Human
Services
Families First
Office Hours:
Monday - Friday
8:00 am - 4:00 pm
Central Time
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 Social Services
Removing Barriers to Success
With a Hand Up, Not a Hand Out
Within our Social Services Department, we recognize the individual
and sometimes unique needs of each client. Through our ever-evolving
programs and partnerships with other agencies, such as the
Tennessee Department of Human
Services
and Families First, barriers are identified and addressed so that lives and futures
might be changed for the better. All clients
are given the opportunity to work to overcome the issues that are keeping
them from being self-supporting and to put them on the road to success,
including issues like disabilities, low-skills, and just needing a job or a
better education.
- Assessment Program: What are the barriers to
self-sufficiency? We have testing, evaluation, and
career counseling for clients to assist in identifying and dealing with
barriers to self-sufficiency.
- Soft Skills - Clients can learn or improve computer skills in our own
computer lab.
- Job Training and Job Placement - We partner with local employers to improve job opportunities and break the
cycle of dependency.
- Work Adjustment - We assist clients with job placement including
readiness skills, provision of a job coach for a limited time to learn job
duties, follow-up and post-employment services.
- Scholarship Program - We
partner with Roane State Community College, Tennessee Technology Center -
Crossville, and Adult Education to pay for tuition and books for low income individuals, with special emphasis on recent
high school graduates and those not qualified for other financial aid
programs.
- Assistance with self-help - All clients are given the opportunity
to participate in career counseling, budget counseling, guidance, work
adjustment and job placement assistance.
All of these programs give incentive, encouragement, and
hope to those trying to improve circumstances and lifestyles.
 Families
First:
From the Families First web page:
Families First is Tennessee's welfare reform plan which replaced the Aid
to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program. The temporary cash
assistance program emphasizes work, training, and personal responsibility.
As part of the Families First program, each participant must agree to follow
a Personal Responsibility Plan (PRP).
Unless a participant is exempt from the work requirement, he/she must also
agree to develop, follow, and complete a work plan. The work plan is based
on the individuals needs and skills.
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