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 2008 National Tribal TANF Institute
July 21-24, in Sacramento, California

This summer join Tribal TANF professionals from across the nation for a unique educational experience. The National Tribal TANF Institute and Pre-Institute Intensives offer directors, program managers, supervisors and case managers an opportunity for professional growth and organizational development.

National Tribal TANF Institute
5:00 p.m. Monday, July 21 through 11:30 a.m. Thursday, July 24  

For more information:
More details about the institute will be available soon. Please call Heather Russell at (530) 757-8643 or email hrussell@unexmail.ucdavis.edu  to receive more information and a registration form.

Have you ever heard of Earned Income credit?  Are you entitled to it? What is it and how do you get it?
Answer: “IT’S YOUR MONEY – CLAIM IT AND SAVE IT”

Keep reading to find out how to claim your earned income credit!
The California Department of Social Services has created two new Earned Income Credit (EIC) outreach publications for tax year 2007.  The publications were created to strengthen state and county efforts to promote the EIC to our CalWORKs and Food Stamps clients and to target families who may qualify for EIC as in the Tribal TANF client population and to educate and assist families on how to access it.  The publications include information about how much EIC workers might get, how to claim it, how to get advance EIC in their monthly paycheck, that they can file for retroactive EIC back three years, that they may also be eligible for the Child Tax Credit, how to get free tax help, and suggest that families consider putting their EIC funds into savings accounts to meet future financial needs.  

The Pub 429 is a one page flyer, printed in English on one side and Spanish on the other.  The flyer will be mailed to 1.5 million CalWORKs and Food Stamps households in the January 2008 Medi-Cal JvR mailing. The Pub 428 is the same information in a Z fold brochure format.  The publications are available for download at the Department’s web page at:  www.dss.cahwnet.gov/cdssweb/PG167.htm . 

An online training program entitled “ Working Effectively With Tribal Governments ” is currently available and is also free of charge until April 30 , 2008.The training course provides insights into  the legal, historic, and cultural factors that must be understood in order to  create successful collaborative undertakings among tribes and federal  agencies. The training course takes about an hour to  complete online and will be offered free to federal employees and the public through April 30, 2008. After that date, there will be a cost to take the training. Visit www.GoLearn.gov . GoLearn is a site administered by the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, which provided technical assistance and program development oversight for the course.
The Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) has established a new coupon program called “The Digital-to-Analog Converter Box Coupon Program”.  This program will assist households reliant on free over-the-air television to maintain television services when full power television stations cease analog broadcasting on February 17, 2009.  Information is available at www.ntia.doc.gov/dtvcoupon/index.html . 

The Sacramento Native American Health Center whose mission is to carry out the legacy of a healthy Sacramento American Indian and Alaskan community, based on cultural values, delivered through traditional, transformational, innovative, accessible, and self-sufficient systems of health care is located in downtown Sacramento . For further information, visit us at www.snahc.org .

The Native American Health Center has two clinics in the Bay Area (San Francisco and Oakland). These clinics provide primary medical care, comprehensive dental care, counseling services, WIC, and HIV testing and medical treatment (SF only). Services are provided to residents of the Bay Area and to Native Americans from the United States, including California tribal members. Visit us at www.nativehealth.org .