740              WORK: POST-TEMPORARY ASSISTANCE EMPLOYMENT SERVICES

Although finding a job is a crucial step toward self-sufficiency, staying employed is just as important.  Many newly employed ATAPAlaska Temporary Assistance Program recipients struggle with the challenges of employment.  Nationally, more than one-third of families who leave public assistance due to employment return within a year.  

Job retention services have proven an effective means of helping people who find a job to retain it and to remain off of assistance.  These services include:

• Extended case management and supportive services; 

• PASSParents Achieving Self-Sufficiency II Child Care; and 

• Other public assistance programs.

Eligibility for each of these services must be considered separately since each service has different eligibility requirements.