85R8620 RMA-D
By: Perry S.C.R. No. 19
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, The Texas Workforce Commission would be better able
to serve struggling single-parent families if it were able to use
funds from the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program to
partner with charitable organizations and community colleges to
provide child care, education, and job training; and
WHEREAS, Buckner Family Pathways, which currently operates
in eight Texas cities, presents a worthy model for aiding
disadvantaged single-parent families; the program joins with
community colleges to help single parents pursue higher education
by assisting them with tuition, child care, and housing; the
initiative also works to equip parents with a range of valuable
tools, including money management, communication skills, and
conflict resolution training; and
WHEREAS, The proven model of Buckner Family Pathways is one
the State of Texas should emulate, and allowing the Texas Workforce
Commission greater flexibility with TANF funds would go a long way
in pursuing that worthwhile endeavor; now, therefore, be it
RESOLVED, That the 85th Legislature of the State of Texas
hereby request that the Texas Workforce Commission seek a waiver
from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that would
allow TWC to have the flexibility to use funds from the Temporary
Assistance for Needy Families program to partner with charitable
organizations and community colleges to provide child care,
education, and job training; and, be it further
RESOLVED, That the chief clerk forward an official copy of
this resolution to the director of the Texas Workforce Commission.