PSI-Case Management for Temporary Aid to Need Families (TANF)

PO Box 1767
630 W. Division Street, Suite F
Dover, DE 19904
Phone: 302-674-3366
Fax: 302-674-3360

Psychotherapeutic Services, Inc.(PSI) provides case management services to persons enrolled in the Temporary Assistance for Need Families Program (TANF) who have mental health and/or substance abuse treatment issues. Comprehensive and carefully planned case management interventions are offered to alleviate barriers to self-sufficiency that are often present as a result of these mental health and substance abuse challenges. TANF is a block grant program designed to make dramatic reforms to the nation's welfare system by moving recipients into work and turning welfare into a program of temporary assistance. TANF replaced the national welfare program known as Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) and the related programs known as the Job Opportunities and Basic Skills Training (JOBS) program and the Emergency Assistance (EA) program. (DHH Final Rule, 1997). The State of Delaware recognized that untreated symptoms of mental illness and substance abuse present significant stumbling blocks for an individual to successfully achieve and maintain employment. The TANF case management program offered by PSI represents a comprehensive systemic intervention to address these barriers to employment that mental health and/or substance abuse present.