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WV Income Maintenance Manual
If you have a question about WV DHHR policy or want to find out more about programs offered and their rules and regulations. You can search the DHHR’s Income Maintenance Manual. If you have received a...
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Childcare Assistance
If you are low income and work or attend a training program, school, or college, you may be eligible for help paying for your child care expenses. To find out more contact the Child Care Resource and...
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WV Cutting Child Care Funding to Working Families
The WV Department of Health and Human Resources announced cuts to child care assistance. On August 1, the state will freeze enrollment into the program meaning NO new families will be able to sign up...
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DAWG Protests Child Care Cuts
On Monday July 23, DAWG held a event on Kanawha Blvd across from the Capital to protest the cuts to the state’s child care assistance program. The event was covered by two of the three local TV news...
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Child Care Freeze Lifted But the Fight is Not Over
On Tuesday July 24, Governor Earl Ray Tomblin announced that the freeze on child care assistance would be lifted. “Because this program is important to thousands of working West Virginia families I...
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Governor Tables Child Care Cuts
“After much discussion with parents and folks in the childcare industry, I decided it’s not in the best interest of West Virginia families to move forward with the scheduled changes to our state’s...
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Our Children Our Future
DAWG joins with over 80 other organizations throughout the state of West Virginia in a coalition to raise WV children out of poverty. The WV Healthy Kids and Families Coalition spearheads the West...
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Our Children Our Future 2013 Platform
The Our Children, Our Future: Campaign to End Child Poverty arrived at these issues through a 6-month statewide community organizing process that included 47 community meetings at churches, schools,...
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Children in Poverty a Priority to WV Legislature?
On February 13, the first day of the 2013 Legislative Session, Resolution 6 was adopted creating a Select Committee on Children and Poverty and the Governor announced there would be no cuts to child...
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