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The Safety Net is a short-term intervention service or maintenance service to help individuals and families develop and maintain skills and abilities for managing the home, and maintaining financial self-sufficiency. Activities may include: an assessment of the family and home situation; assisting families in identifying needs; linking families to community resources available to address those needs; intervention in crisis situations such as fuel shortage, utility shutoffs, or insufficient basic needs such as food, clothing, housing, employment. Families are referred for Safety Net services by the Cabinet for Health and Family Services-Department for Community Based Services-Division of Family Support staff.
Safety Net assessments are completed on all families who have exhausted their 60 months of public assistance eligibility. In addition to these families, CFS also serves families who are currently sanctioned from receiving financial benefits. CFS Staff work with families to develop a plan to maintain their self-sufficiency without financial assistance from the state. Staff also assists families in addressing identified barriers which have lead to the sanction of their state-funded financial supports and ways to remove those barriers.