ARCHS' Successful Work Incentives for TANF Community Community Partnership focuses on job training and life skills services for St. Louis City/County residents.

ARCHS' SWIFT Community Partnership:

Employers: Need a Hand?  Get SWIFT Help!  No Payroll or Benefit Costs…

ARCHS in collaboration with the State of Missouri is pleased to announce a new “Subsidized Wages” program for the St. Louis region.  This new program allows employers like you to hire, train, and provide hands-on work experience using transitional jobs.

Transitional jobs are time-limited “subsidized” wage based employment opportunities that combine work experience, skill development and support services for persons in need of employment. There is NO direct cost to your company for wages. You provide the work place and training. SWIFT handles the rest.

Benefits to Employers:

• NO direct costs for wages and NO liability for benefits, taxes, etc.
• Background checks and drug testing can be provided
• Eligibility for Work Opportunity Tax Credits (WOTC)
• Eligibility for Welfare to Work Tax Credits
• Train Potential New Employees for Longer Term Placement
• Provide the Region with a Better Prepared Workforce

Employers Working With SWIFT:

• Annie Malone Children and Family Services
• Bauman Massey
• Bissingers
• BJC Christian Hospital
• Broadway Sporting Center
• Bright Beginnings Daycare
• Carr Lane Manufacturing
• CBN Beauty Supply
• Center Stage In Home Care
• City of St. Louis Parks Department
• CW Insurance Agency
• DAVLIN Engineering
• Grace Hill
• Hope House
• Industrialization Opportunities, Inc.
• Juntos Development Center
• Love, Honor & Cherish Daycare
• Marriott Hotels (St. Louis Area)
• Missouri Black Expo
• More Than Candy Convenience Store
• New Day Realty
• Portfolio Gallery and Education Center
• Provident Care
• Quality Screw Machine Products
• Residence Inn, St. Louis-Downtown
• St. Louis Area Food Bank
• Sunnen Products
• The Thinking Pad
• UPS Store (Bridgeton, MO)
• YWCA
• Williams In Home Health Care

ARCHS’ SWIFT Community Partners:

• ARCHS (Managing Partner and Fiscal Agent)
• Better Family Life
• GUIDES Family Life Center
• Hope House
• Humanitri
• Missouri MERS Goodwill
• Provident, Inc.
• St. Louis Agency on Training and Employment (SLATE)
• St. Louis County Division of Workforce Development
• West End Mt. Carmel Community Outreach
• The Women’s Safe House

History:

Update: ARCHS' SWIFT Partnership has been re-awarded funding to continue its partnership for FY 2008-09.

August 2007: ARCHS) was awarded a $1.169 million grant from the Missouri Department of Social Services (DSS) to assist Temporary Assistance for Needy Family (TANF) recipients who have been sanctioned for not adhering to benefit requirements. DSS awarded eight “Community Work Support” grants statewide totaling $3.3 million.

The grant will fund ARCHS’ Successful Work Incentives for TANF (SWIFT) Community Partnership. SWIFT will use a transitional jobs model to help 300 St. Louis City and County TANF recipients remove the barriers (including unemployment) that have led to their benefits being sanctioned by the state. SWIFT will create an action plan and then track the progress of the recipient in their progress towards job training and placement.

SWIFT’s case management will focus on job/ life skills training, housing and transportation assistance, child care referrals, health care access and financial literacy. Special services related to mental illness, substance abuse and domestic violence will also be available.

Created in 1997, TANF is the successor to the Aid to Families with Dependent Children program, providing cash assistance to indigent American families with dependent children through the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. There is a maximum of 60 months of benefits within one's lifetime (some states instituted shorter periods) and there is a component requiring clients to attempt to find employment.

For more information email: Sue Haverman or Kevin Dallas.