We’d like to recognize Ed Chiles and John McKay along with Kathy Pritchett for taking a stand for Goodwill Industries and the TANF Program - Temporary Assistance for Needy Families. They were able to get Senator Nelson to agree to sponsor the proposed renewal of funding for the TANF program in 2011. This is an important step forward to funding a new kind of “welfare” for people – one that helps to foster freedom and independence, those very qualities on which our country was established.
Recently, Ed Chiles, John McKay and Kathy Pritchett traveled to Washington D.C. to meet with Senator Bill Nelson about a Goodwill Industries program called TANF - Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, a program whose primary goal is to help low-income families move from living on welfare to attaining the freedom of self-sufficiency.
Goodwill calls itself the Hand-Up People, as opposed to the Hand-Out people. The idea of Hand-Up is one of lending a helping hand to pull people out of situations where they are dependent on welfare for sustainability and to pull them into situations that promote self-sufficiency. Participants are provided with services such as job skills and job readiness training, child care assistance, or transportation among many others. These services give people an opportunity to create a better life for themselves - something which empowers participants to believe in themselves.
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